For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario's garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine...
Nature and the environment
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Author:Angus, CharlieSummary: - Author:Koonin, Steven E.Summary:
"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact...
- Author:Gordon, JonSummary:
In Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, Jon Gordon makes the case for re-evaluating the theoretical, political, and environmental issues around petroleum extraction. Doing so, he argues, will reinvigorate our...
- Author:Packer, John, Gould, A. JoyceSummary:
Packer and Gould have provided an invaluable service for anyone interested in western North American botany by creating a simple, user-friendly and portable key to the Alberta species found in the 30-volume set of Flora of North America...
- Author:Macdonald, HelenSummary:
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a...
- Author:Diaz, HarrySummary:
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The...
- Author:Franklin-Wallis, OliverSummary:
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy - and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we...
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Art about the climate crisis that calls for justice and systemic change while raising funds to help tackle the problem. We are in a climate emergency. The polar bears are starving, Australia is burning. Climate anxiety--like sea levels...
- Author:Hartson, TamaraSummary:
Super Explorers brings you all the weird fish, mammals and other strange creatures that inhabit the deep, deep ocean: the Frilled Shark is a strange-looking prehistoric shark that swallows its prey whole, the Japanese Spider Crab has...
- Author:Haraway, Donna JeanneSummary:
In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending over $38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets...
- Author:Czajkowski, ChrisSummary:
In the tinder-dry summer of 2004 the author discovers her enchanted mountain realm facing an unprecedented menace: wildfire. The book culminates with a white-knuckle account of the Lonesome Lake fire. Every day the firestorm rampages...
- Author:Grambo, Rebecca L.Summary:
Science, legend and personal observations blend together to tell the story of wolves and their relationships with humans.
- Author:Brown, Lester R.Summary:
The author addresses the crucial environmental issues of our times and considers the impact on the economies of the world.
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