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Cristina Mittermeier knows a thing or two about water. Trained as a marine biologist and a photographer, the Mexico City-born Mittermeier combines her work behind the lens with her passion for environmentalism, taking pictures around the world to explore our relationship to the earth and ocean and to draw attention to the beauty and the plight of our planet. In Amaze, Mittermeier elicits our wonder and awe at the natural world and the labyrinth or "maze" of navigating a sustainable existence. The book combines two series: "Enoughness" and "The Water's Edge." The first draws out Mittermeier's philosophy for a mindful and sustainable way of being in the world. Bringing together photographs fro...
World-renowned zoologist and photographer Naskrecki leads readers on a time-lapse tour that renders Earth's colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.
A photograph collection explores the variations of natural landscapes, plants, and animals and is complemented by perspectives on humanity's visceral connections to the natural universe.
Pubblicato con la prestigiosa collaborazione di National Geographic, Cristina Mittermeier. La grande saggezza presenta novanta fotografie che accompagnano il lettore in uno spettacolare viaggio intorno al mondo, dall'Artico all'Oceania, documentando la vita di popolazioni indigene, di paesaggi e specie animali nel loro habitat naturale. Dai Papuani in Nuova Guinea agli Inuit in Groenlandia, dalle foreste canadesi ai ghiacci della penisola antartica, dai fenicotteri del Messico agli orsi polari, fino alle emozionanti immagini subacquee dedicate alla vita nell'oceano, queste immagini raccontano la maestosità del mondo naturale, la ricchezza della biodiversità, l'equilibrio degli ecosistemi e...
Includes sections on Polynesia and Micronesia, the California coast, the Caribbean, Choco-Darien Western Ecuador, the Mediterranean Basin, Brazilian Cerrado, Tropical Andes, Central Chile, Atlantic Forest Region, the Caucasus, the Mountains of South-Central China, India and Burma, Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya, Guinean Forest of West Africa, Succulent Karoo, Cape Floristic Province, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, Sundaland, Wallecea, Southwest Australia, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and New Zealand.
Following in the footsteps of Hotspots, Wilderness, Wildlife Spectacles, and Hotspots Revisited, Transboundary Conservation is an essential resource for all those concerned about the future of our environment.
This book presents the results of the biodiversity hotspots - those discrete, biogeographic regions that are known to hold at least 1,500 plants as endemics and that have lost at least 70% of their primary native vegetation.
Features more than 175 images on climate change and how the world can transform an unprecedented environmental challenge into opportunity for the future. This book explores how rising temperatures on land and in the oceans around the globe affect nature, and therefore all living things, including people.
Earth's biologically wealthiest nations; Brazil; Indonesia; Colombia; Mexico; Australia; Madagascar; Philippines; China; Peru; Ecuador; India; Papua New Guinea; United States of America; South Africa; Venezuela; Democratic Republic of Congo.
Provides a stark examination of the current state of the Earth's freshwater ecosystems. This title tells us why Earth's freshwater supplies and systems are in peril.