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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Core questions - about the way the climate is responding to our influence, and what the impacts will be - remain largely unanswered. The climate is changing, but the why and how aren't as clear as you've probably been led to believe.

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Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors, the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization.

In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out.Robert Glennon captures the irony - and tragedy - of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical.

Your government and religious leaders may not want you to know, but the evidence suggests that pole shifts are both magnetic and geophysical, with a periodic cycle of recurring and predictable cataclysms involving huge earthquakes and tsunamis, changes in latitude and altitude, mass extinctions, and the destruction of civilizations, reducing them to myth and legend. Evidence from geology, biology, astronomy, physics, history, mythology, religion and prophecy all suggests that the next pole shift is due in the 21st century.

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.

The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scientific sleuthing. In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution.

I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline.

The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In 25 chapters, Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet.

הבריאות שלנו, האוכל שאנחנו אוכלים, הכסף שלנו, מכשירי החשמל שאצלנו בבית: נושאים סביבתיים משפיעים כיום על כל היבט בחיי היומיום שלנו. בכל פרק של "דיבור נקי", פודקאסט הסביבה של "ישראל היום", דנה רון פוגשת את הדמויות הבולטות בתחום, ומדברת איתן על הנושאים שמעצבים את המציאות שלנו. בואו לשמוע על הדברים החשובים באמת.

Benvenuti ad un nuovo appuntamento con le Green News di RTA - Radio Territorio Ambiente! Nell'edizione di oggi: Creme solari e farmaci, più inquinanti nell'Artico che al SudMigliori mercati fotovoltaici nel mondo, l’Italia entra in top tenIsole minori, la sfida della sostenibilità è aperta

Benvenuti ad un nuovo appuntamento con le Green News di RTA - Radio Territorio Ambiente! Nell'edizione di oggi: Riciclare il polistirolo ora potrebbe essere possibileGrazie ai satelliti, prodotta la prima mappa dettagliata delle isole di plastica nel MediterraneoVenezia, per colpa del clima nel 2150 piazza San Marco sarà sommersa

The eruption of Mount St. Helens was a major catastrophic event, but what is the significance, and what can we learn from it? Find out on the podcast as David is joined in studio with Carla Estelle who has studied these events.

Der industrielle Steinkohlebergbau ist seit 2018 offiziell beendet. Nicht aber seine Auswirkungen für die betroffenen Regionen in Nordrhein-Westfalen und im Saarland. Eine der großen Herausforderungen: Das Grubenwasser! Abpumpen? Die Gruben fluten? Was sind umweltgerechte und gleichzeitig wirtschaftliche Lösungen? Die gemeinnützige Stiftung „Forum Bergbau und Wasser“ fördert Wissenschaft und Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Hydrogeologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Grubenwasser und beschäftigt sich seit einigen Jahren mit genau diesen Fragen. Im Podcast „Wasser, Wissen, Wissenschaft!“ ...

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Através de episódios quinzenais, o MipTalks oferece conteúdo de altíssimo nível sobre a revitalização do Manejo Integrado de Pragas. Em formato descontraído, pesquisadores doutores, representantes de empresas participantes do Programa MipExperience e consultores associados falam sobre suas experiencias e conhecimentos. Cada temporada vai oferecer cerca de 20 episódios. A programação gratuita já está disponível nas plataformas de vídeo e Streaming, nas versões videocast e podcast. Siga nas redes e não perca nenhum episódio do MipTaks.

The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. In response, the people who know the ocean most intimately are taking action for the sake of our shared future. Community scientists track species in California tidepools. Researchers dive into the waters around Sydney to replant kelp forests. Scientists and First Nations communities collaborate to restore clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest.

An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries yet to be solved about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come from, what does it do, and why, above all, does life need it?

Principles of Geology [1830] is a groundbreaking classic of science. Mentioned in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, glowingly, it captivated such contemporaries as Melville, Emerson, Tennyson, and George Eliot. It is now here for a new generation interested in Earth Science, climate and sustainability.

From Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson to Alive! and Adrift, tales of survival have captivated readers. Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present: their moral dilemmas, their personalities, and their influence on society, literature, and art.