Are trees social beings? Forester and author Peter Wohlleben makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love...

Sixty-five million years ago, a meteor six miles wide smashed into the Gulf of Mexico, ending the age of dinosaurs and devastating the North American continent. Starting with this catastrophic event, The Eternal Frontier recounts the extraordinary ecological history of North America, showing how the continent originally came into being and eventually transformed into the landscape we know today. This sweeping, multidisciplinary book is history on...

Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the...

Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the worlds leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it), and Michael Charles Tobias, whose over 40 books and 150 films have been read and/or viewed throughout the world. Hope on Earth offers a rare opportunity to listen in as these deeply knowledgeable...

Presents information on how parrotfish influence their ecosystems, including where they live, their role in the food web, and dangers they face.

Todays environment is full of Pollution, and, people are either not aware of its dangers, or even if they know, they simply disregard them, just like an Ostrich who buries its head in sand when a storm comes, thinking that the storm will pass it unharmed. But, if we allow the pollution to go on uncontrolled, it could be the end of the world as we know it. Number of technical books have been written on this topic, (and the present author too could...

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, while mostly noted for grizzly bears, elk, moose, and other large mammals, also host a high species diversity of butterflies, owing to the ecosystem's vast area of pristine habitat. Many of the nearly 120 butterflies described can also be found elsewhere in the Northern Rockies, making the book useful beyond the artificial borders of the public lands. Illustrated with color plates of each species, “A Field...

Es cada vez más urgente encontrar soluciones a la crisis ambiental. Aun cuando confiamos en los inventos para solucionar los problemas que generan el calentamiento global o las sequías, sabemos que poco han logrado las ecotecnologías frente a la magnitud de los cambios que auguran una inminente crisis climática en nuestro planeta. Luis Zambrano esboza en este libro algunos caminos hacia la sostenibili-dad y desvela las contradicciones de los llamados...

El libro presenta una visión integral del manejo del medio urbano y la importancia de los aspectos ambientales, que involucra los impactos potenciales, factores de riesgo, condiciones de saneamiento, zonas verdes y la percepción de las poblaciones establecidas en áreas urbanas que son objeto de estudio. Constituye una herramienta para evaluación de la Calidad Ambiental de los sectores urbanos, facilita el conocimiento de las interdependencias,...

This publication was created to inform others of the recent California Wildfires. It focuses on the Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa, California, about 3-years ago, which, at that time was the most destructive Wildfire in California History. The publication is a pictorial record of the devastation caused by the fire. Wildfires were created hundreds of millions of years ago to burn forests so new growth could replace the old. Volcanoes and lighting started...