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A Little Less Arctic
In Arctic Canada, Hudson Bay is a site of great exploration history, aboriginal culture, and a vast marine wilderness supporting large populations of marine mammals and birds. These include some of the most iconic Arctic animals like beluga, narwhal, bowhead whales, and polar bears. Due to the challenges of conducting field research in this region, some of the mysteries of where these animals move, and how they are able to survive in such seemingly inhospitable, ice-choked habitats are just now being unlocked. For example, are polar bears being replaced by killer whales? This new information could not be more salient, as the Hudson Bay Region is undergoing rapid environmental change due to global warming, as well as increased pressures from industrial development interests. A Little Less Arctic brings together some of the world’s leading Arctic scientists to present the current state of knowledge on the physical and biological characteristics of Hudson Bay.
The Narrow Edge
Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they will have completed a near-miraculous 9,000-mile journey that began in Tierra del Fuego. Deborah Cramer followed these knots, whose numbers have declined by 75 percent, on their extraordinary odyssey from one end of the earth to the other—from an isolated beach at the tip of South America all the way to the icy tundra. In her firsthand account, she explores how diminishing a single stopover can compromise the birds' entire journey, and how the ...
Environmental Contaminants in Biota
Examining tissue residues of contaminants in biota reveals the movement of contaminants within organisms and through food chains as well as the context for understanding and quantifying injuries to organisms and their communities. Yet tissue concentrations of some contaminants are especially challenging to interpret and the ability of today’s analytical chemists to provide reliable analytical data of most important environmental contaminants often surpasses the ability of ecotoxicologists to interpret those data. Offering guidance on the ecotoxicologically meaningful interpretation of tissue concentrations, Environmental Contaminants in Biota, Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edi...
Fathoms
Winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bes...
Narwhals
Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff of medieval European myths and Inuit legends, are uniquely adapted to the Arctic ecosystem and are able to dive below thick sheets of ice to depths of up to 1,500 meters in search of their prey-halibut, cod, and squid. Join Todd McLeish as he travels high above the Arctic circle to meet: Teams of scientific researchers studying the narwhal's life cycle and the mysteries of its tusk Inuit storytel...
World Food
This multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times. Comprehensive in scope, this two-volume encyclopedia covers agriculture and industry, food preparation and regional cuisines, science and technology, nutrition and health, and trade and commerce, as well as key contemporary issues such as famine relief, farm subsidies, food safety, and the organic movement. Articles also include specific foodstuffs such as chocolate, potatoes, and tomatoes; topics such as Mediterranean diet and the Spice Route; and pivotal figures such as Marco Polo, Columbus, and Catherine de' Medici. Special features include: dozens of recipes representing different historic periods and cuisines of the world; listing of herbal foods and uses; and a chronology of key events/people in food history.
Wer wird überleben?
Longlist für den NDR Sachbuchpreis 2021 Wir stehen vor einem historischen Wendepunkt in unserem Verhältnis zur Natur: Mit der Coronapandemie sind zum ersten Mal die Auswirkungen der Arten- und Biodiversitätskrise für uns als Spezies Mensch größer als die globalen Folgen des Klimawandels. Lange schon haben Artenschutzexperten gewarnt, dass ein solches Virus durch den ausrottenden Handel mit Wildtieren entstehen wird. Haben wir diese Wucht, den kommenden Wandel noch im Griff? Lothar Frenz hat bei Expeditionen – etwa in den Regenwald Amazoniens, nach Indonesien und Afrika – viele Aspekte des Artensterbens und der Biodiversitätskrise erlebt. Eindrucksvoll zeigt er auf, wie vielschicht...
極境生機
突破視野與想像，由鳥、鱟與人類共同建構的生物自然史 失落與韌性、堅強與勇氣 鼓舞人心的故事 ★美國國家科學院最佳圖書 (Best Book, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) ★環境記者協會瑞秋卡森圖書獎 (Rachel Carson Environment Book Award) ★里德環境寫作獎 (Winner of the Reed Environmental Writing Award) ★麻州圖書獎指定必讀 “瑞秋•卡森(Rachel Carson)《寂靜的春天》之後的繼承者與遺產代表” ——環境記者協會瑞秋卡森圖書獎評論 ◎飛翔數千英里的濱鳥和在海洋活了4億多年的鱟，牠們之間有著什麼令人稱奇的交集？ ◎體重僅14...
Stung!
Discusses why the jellyfish population has exploded in recent years and why their dominance is indicative of a declining ocean ecosystem.
