Kolbert, Elizabeth
Summary: Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world people are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop 'super coral' that can...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 304.2 KOLSummary: As tourism skyrockets in the most famous island in the Pacific, its Indigenous culture and fragile environment suffer under the pressure of unsustainable practices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the world to explore our global impact. Because while we may tell ourselves what it means to be human, the clearest vision of who we are emerges from what we do.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023