L'île Hans a fait l'actualité internationale, en 2010, lorsque le Danemark et le Canada en ont revendiqué tour à tour la possession. Pourquoi cette dispute à propos d'un rocher désert d'à peine un kilomètre carré situé au 80e parallèle...
Global warming
- Author:Hussenet, EmmanuelSummary:
- Author:Flannery, Tim F.Summary:
- Author:Flannery, Tim F.Summary:
Originally skeptical of global warming, Flannery spent years compiling his own research. What he learned is sobering. Human beings are weather makers whose production of carbon dioxide is polluting the planet at a devastating rate....
- Author:Roche, Douglas J.Summary:
A brief account of the UN's role in the world today, focusing on the most important issues: the use of military force in conflicts, the challenges of global warming and climate change, deep disparities between rich and poor, and the...
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-...
- Author:David, LaurieSummary:
Laurie David educates young listeners about the ecological crisis called Global Warming.The dangers posed are very real, and the planet may undergo drastic changes within this century. People do, however, have the power to fight back...
- Author:McEwan, Ian.Summary:
When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard's personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for...
- Author:Gutman, Dan.Summary:
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and...
- Author:Weaver, Andrew J.Summary:
- Author:Weaver, AndrewSummary:
"Monster wildfires in Australia, January golfers in PEI, ruined fruit crops in California, starving polar bears in the North. Climate change is no longer a vague threat. Over the next few centuries climate changes will be greater...
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- Author:Berners-Lee, MikeSummary:
A smart, practical, and accessible guide to measuring (and reducing) our carbon footprint, from internationally recognized expert, Mike Berners-Lee. Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, iHow Bad Are Bananas? is the first...
- Author:Maslin, MarkSummary:
- Author:Kolbert, ElizabethSummary:
- Author:Tanaka, ShelleySummary:
Revised and updated edition Scientists have been warning the world about global warming for almost three decades. But the rest of us are only now starting to get the message. The planet is warming at an unusually rapid rate, and this...