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  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    by Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey ...
    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes.By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Escaping Nature

    How to Survive Global Climate Change

    by Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J. Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B. Dodson, Hannah L. Hayes ...
    Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Vanishing Sands

    Losing Beaches to Mining

    by Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, Hannah L. Hayes ...
    In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Sea Level Rise

    A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores

    by Orrin H. Pilkey, Keith C. Pilkey ...
    The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    by Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey ...
    Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to critical infrastructure, such as water-treatment and energy facilities, creating ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Global Climate Change

    A Primer

    by Keith C. Pilkey, Mary Edna Fraser, Orrin H. Pilkey ...
    An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken interviewee in the mainstream media. Here, the colorful scientist takes on climate change deniers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Water Will Come

    Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

    by Jeff Goodell ...
    An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world in the age of climate change and rising tides.What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Ever Green

    Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet

    by Thomas E. Lovejoy, John W. Reid ...
    **One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022Clear, provocative, and persuasive, Ever Green is an inspiring call to action to conserve Earth’s irreplaceable wild woods, counteract climate change, and save the planet.**Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nature's Fortune

    How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

    by Mark R Tercek, Jonathan S Adams ...
    What is nature worth? The answer to this question -- which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms -- is revolutionizing the way we do business.In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ivory, Horn and Blood

    Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis

    by Ronald Orenstein ...
    Meticulous research, chilling facts.... an important and much needed book.-- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, The Jane Goodall InstituteIf it is understanding you seek, turn these pages.-- Virginia McKenna, OBE, Founder, The Born Free FoundationIf you care about elephants and rhinos, and the poaching onslaught that threatens their extinction in the wild, this is the book for you.-- Ian ... ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Vanishing Fish

    Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries

    by Daniel Pauly ...
    "Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."—Ted Danson, actor, ocean activist, and co-author of Oceana"This wonderfully personal and accessible book by the world’s greatest living fisheries biologist summarizes and expands on the causes of collapse and the essential actions that will be required to rebuild fish stocks for future generations.”—Dr. Jeremy Jackson, ocean ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feeling the Heat

    Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change

    by From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine ...
    For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting, sea level is rising, species are losing their habitats, and temperature records are being broken. Feeling the Heat consists of chapter-length ... Read more

    $65.99 USD