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  • Saving a Million Species

    Extinction Risk from Climate Change

    Edición de Lee Hannah ...
    The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change" published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both the popular imagination and the attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round of scientific critique.Saving a Million Species ... Leer más

    $36.79 USD

  • Biodiversity and Human Health

    de Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary Campbell, Eric Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew P. Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan, Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra Fairfield, John Grupenhoff, Dan Janzen, Catherine Laughlin, Tom Mays, Robert McCaleb, Katy Moran, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter Reid, John Vandermeer, Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey ...
    The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Preserving Life On Earth

    de Thomas Lovejoy ...
    Narrado por Michael Toms ...

    Completo

    57 minutos

    Lovejoy encourages us to stay optimistic with a grounding in global, environmental facts."This really should be about opportunity for American industry, new technologies, new energy, and American ingenuity. [It's a time] to find the solutions rather than being viewed as a problem for the American economy. It is a fact that it is a problem for the American economy, if you don't address it." ... Leer más

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  • Climate Change Biology

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  • Biodiversity

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  • Second Growth

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