Sala, Enric
Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 SALStrauss, Eric.
Summary: Ecology is to reveal the nature of ourselves and of our relationship with the species around us. The lectures in this course are often in pairs, with basic ecological principles discussed in the first lecture and the human role or human implications addressed in the second.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 525 EARKelsey, Elin
Summary: Lyrically explains how humans are connected to nature, from the microorganisms that build the immune system to the gravity that binds people to the Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.2 KELHill, Tessa
Summary: "This book follows nine different places in the ocean, from close and accessible to remote and forbidding: tidepools, coral reefs, shellfish farms, kelp forests, a fishing area in the North Atlantic, remote islands of the Pacific, the North Pacific Garbage Patch, the deep sea, and finally the Arctic and Antarctic poles. In each place, the authors delve into the science of how we understand the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2024