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Die Folgen des Klimawandels im Visier Artensterben, schwindende Ressourcen und Klimawandel gefährden unseren Planeten! Doch wie ernst ist die Lage wirklich? In drei Kapiteln nimmt dieses Buch den gegenwärtigen Zustand der Erde ganz genau unter die Lupe, deckt die Folgen der Einflussnahme durch den Menschen auf und präsentiert konkrete Umweltschutz-Vorschläge und innovative Lösungen für die Zukunft. In klarer Sprache und über 1000 Grafiken werd...

Understand the science that explains what pressure our planet is under and how to take action.Using powerful, easy-to-grasp graphics, this book cuts through the noise and gets straight to the most up-to-date facts on climate change, overpopulation, pollution, overconsumption, pandemics, and much more.Tony Juniper distills wide-ranging, heart-stopping research into one reliable and eye-opening book. He charts the dramatic explosion of human pop...

Understand the science that explains what pressure our planet is under and how to take action.Using powerful, easy-to-grasp graphics, this book cuts through the noise and gets straight to the most up-to-date facts on climate change, overpopulation, pollution, over-consumption, pandemics, and much more.Tony Juniper distills wide-ranging, heart-stopping research into one reliable and eye-opening book. He charts the dramatic explosion of human po...

Rainforests are key to the health of our world - they maintain the water and air cycles, store carbon, and have yielded countless numbers of medical drugs. We have already destroyed half their area. We need urgently to save the half that's left. This book explains why - and how.

Tony Juniper is a globally acclaimed writer, campaigner, environmentalist and sustainability advisor. He is the author of many books, including the multi-award winning best-seller What Has Nature Ever Done for Us? He has worked for more than 30 years to promote solutions to environmental challenges, including through his work as the Director of Friends of the Earth. He was appointed Chair of Natural England in March 2019.

A prominent conservationist provides a comprehensive view of the crucial roles rainforests serve, the state of the world's rainforests today, and the inspirational efforts underway to save them.

An environmental parable for our times - the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.

Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers...

What impact are we having on global warming? Does a more sustainable way of living hold the answer to climate change and the other environmental problems facing our planet?How We're F***ing Up Our Planet charts the dramatic explosion of human population and consumption. Using the latest scientific evidence and simple graphics, this wide-ranging and accessible book reveals how our growing use of energy, our increasing demand for food and water,...

The human world sits on the brink of potentially catastrophic environmental change. If we do not drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and start that process now, it is projected that in the second half of the 20th century the cost of climate damage could amount to a fifth of global GDP. The latest science confirms that there is now only a decade left for action. How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Planet is a clarion call for ...

Bevölkerungswachstum, schwindende Ressourcen und Klimawandel gehören nur zu einigen von unzähligen Aspekten, die unseren Planeten gefährden. Doch wie ernst ist die Lage wirklich? Dieses Buch nimmt all die komplexen Phänomene, die unsere Erde gefährden, genau unter die Lupe. Was passiert wirklich mit unserem Planeten? Der international renommierte Aktivist, Nachhaltigkeitsexperte und Umweltschützer Dr. Tony Juniper geht dieser Frage sorgfältig ...

From the peat bogs and woodlands that help to secure our water supply, to the bees and soils that produce most of the food we eat, Britain is rich in 'natural capital'. Yet we take supplies of clean water and secure food for granted, rarely considering the free work nature does for Britain. In fact for years we have damaged the systems that sustain us under the illusion that we are keeping prices down, through intensive farming, drainage of bo...

Trade paperback. The environmental campaigner and editor of the "Guardian"'s "Green" supplement looks at the economics of ecosystems in this new guide. Full of engaging and startling stories, such as how the Chinese use feather dusters to pollinate plants in the absence of bees, and how birds protect the Dutch apple harvest.

During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and biodiversity, or in other words, what Nature does for ...

During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and biodiversity, or in other words, what Nature does for ...

An easy-to-understand overview of the state of our planet and its future, using eye-opening and accessible charts, graphs, and infographics.By 2050, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion. What's Really Happening to Our Planet? uses a graphic approach to chart the dramatic explosion of the human population and consumption and its impact on the planet.Based on unmatched scientific data, What's Really Happening to Our Planet? bring...

The Spix's Macaw, if it survived and recovered, could inspire the world to see what was possiblethrough cooperation and determined efforts to save the earth's natural riches.... On June 3, 1817, Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix set sail for the New World on an expedition sponsored by the Bavarian Royal Academy of Sciences. What he found in Brazil's thorny caatinga woodlands would one day transform our understanding about evolution, survival, and...

This is the first book created primarily for the field identification of parrots, one of the most familiar and colorful groups of birds. From the mighty. macaws to the diminutive pygmy parrots, the 350 species of parrots include cockatoos, parakeets, lovebirds, and Budgerigar. Most are brightly colored or even gaudy, but a few are drab, and some are nocturnal and flightess. Parrots, found throughout most of the warmer regions of the world, occ...