-
Lake Invaders
- Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes
- Narrado por: David Gilmore
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Compra ahora por US$19.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
Silent Spring
- De: Rachel Carson
- Narrado por: Kaiulani Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
First published in 1962, Silent Spring can single-handedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large.
-
-
Ahead of her times...
- De Kenneth en 08-09-08
De: Rachel Carson
-
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
- De: Dan Egan
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Great Lakes - Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior - hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's engaging portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes.
-
-
So Crucial, Get it! Then Enjoy Your Water
- De Meg en 08-05-19
De: Dan Egan
-
Ocean Outbreak
- Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
- De: Drew Harvell
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
There is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. A warmer world is a sicker world for humans and wild biota. Marine epidemics have caused mass die-offs of wildlife from the bottom to the top of the food chains, impacting the health of ocean ecosystems as well as lives on land. Fueled by a warming ocean and accelerated by sewage dumping, unregulated aquaculture, and drifting plastic, ocean outbreaks are sentinels of impending global environmental disaster.
-
-
Perfect audiobook for award-winning piece
- De Phoebe en 04-16-20
De: Drew Harvell
-
Earth Moved
- On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
- De: Amy Stewart
- Narrado por: Heather Henderson
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
They destroy plant diseases. They break down toxins. They plough the earth. They transform forests. They’ve survived two mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaur. Not bad for a creature that’s deaf, blind, and spineless. Who knew that earthworms were one of our planet’s most important caretakers? Or that Charles Darwin devoted his last years to studying their remarkable achievements?
-
-
I bow down to our benevolent worm overlords
- De Kirstin en 04-17-14
De: Amy Stewart
-
Under a White Sky
- The Nature of the Future
- De: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating.
-
-
Feel Sorry For Your Grandchildren
- De Allen Moody en 02-28-21
-
The Soil Will Save Us
- How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
- De: Kristin Ohlson
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the way we think about our food, our landscapes, our plants, and our relationship to Earth.
-
-
Rambling, mile wide, inch deep treatment of a subject
- De Charles Phillips en 10-17-18
De: Kristin Ohlson
-
Silent Spring
- De: Rachel Carson
- Narrado por: Kaiulani Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
First published in 1962, Silent Spring can single-handedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large.
-
-
Ahead of her times...
- De Kenneth en 08-09-08
De: Rachel Carson
-
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
- De: Dan Egan
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Great Lakes - Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior - hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's engaging portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes.
-
-
So Crucial, Get it! Then Enjoy Your Water
- De Meg en 08-05-19
De: Dan Egan
-
Ocean Outbreak
- Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
- De: Drew Harvell
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
There is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. A warmer world is a sicker world for humans and wild biota. Marine epidemics have caused mass die-offs of wildlife from the bottom to the top of the food chains, impacting the health of ocean ecosystems as well as lives on land. Fueled by a warming ocean and accelerated by sewage dumping, unregulated aquaculture, and drifting plastic, ocean outbreaks are sentinels of impending global environmental disaster.
-
-
Perfect audiobook for award-winning piece
- De Phoebe en 04-16-20
De: Drew Harvell
-
Earth Moved
- On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
- De: Amy Stewart
- Narrado por: Heather Henderson
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
They destroy plant diseases. They break down toxins. They plough the earth. They transform forests. They’ve survived two mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaur. Not bad for a creature that’s deaf, blind, and spineless. Who knew that earthworms were one of our planet’s most important caretakers? Or that Charles Darwin devoted his last years to studying their remarkable achievements?
-
-
I bow down to our benevolent worm overlords
- De Kirstin en 04-17-14
De: Amy Stewart
-
Under a White Sky
- The Nature of the Future
- De: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating.
-
-
Feel Sorry For Your Grandchildren
- De Allen Moody en 02-28-21
-
The Soil Will Save Us
- How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
- De: Kristin Ohlson
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the way we think about our food, our landscapes, our plants, and our relationship to Earth.
-
-
Rambling, mile wide, inch deep treatment of a subject
- De Charles Phillips en 10-17-18
De: Kristin Ohlson
-
Food Fight
- GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
- De: McKay Jenkins
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Critics, meanwhile, call for their banishment, insisting GMOs were designed by overeager scientists and greedy corporations to bolster an industrial food system that forces us to rely on cheap, unhealthy, processed food so they can turn an easy profit.
-
-
A collection of superficial research
- De Amazon Customer en 09-11-17
De: McKay Jenkins
-
Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- De: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Rowell Gormon
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse.
-
-
Compulsory Reading - Share with Everyone!
- De Charles Koenen en 04-12-20
De: Rowan Jacobsen
-
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
- Third Edition
- De: Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
- Narrado por: Paul W. Griffiths
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels.
-
-
Ideas To Save the the World, Told Poorly
- De Shawn Oueinsteen en 10-28-18
De: Jody Butterfield, y otros
-
Banana
- The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- De: Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) - ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.
-
-
Very Good Book - History, Science, and Economics
- De Jose en 11-08-17
De: Dan Koeppel
-
Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
-
-
More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel
-
Never out of Season
- How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
- De: Rob Dunn
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance - once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time.
-
-
Great listen!
- De Steve Ebert en 04-13-17
De: Rob Dunn
-
The Vertical Farm
- Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- De: Dickson Despommier
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
-
-
Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
-
When the Rivers Run Dry
- Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
- De: Fred Pearce
- Narrado por: Tony Craine
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water both for agriculture and for individual consumption, but now economists say that by 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvest. In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce focuses on the dire state of the world's rivers to provide our most complete portrait yet of the growing world water crisis and its ramifications for us all.
-
-
Well Researched!
- De John M. en 03-05-11
De: Fred Pearce
-
The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
-
-
Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
-
The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
-
-
Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
-
The Insect Crisis
- The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
- De: Oliver Milman
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet's known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history.
-
-
Great information
- De Nadya S. en 06-25-23
De: Oliver Milman
-
Cows Save the Planet
- And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
- De: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Judith D. Schwartz
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems - climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity - there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil. Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive.
-
-
Wow!
- De Benjamin en 09-26-18
Resumen del Editor
There are more than 180 exotic species in the Great Lakes. Some, such as green algae, the Asian tapeworm, and the suckermouth minnow, have had little or no impact so far. But a handful of others - sea lamprey, alewife, round goby, quagga mussel, zebra mussel, Eurasian watermilfoil, spiny water flea, and rusty crayfish - have conducted an all-out assault on the Great Lakes and are winning the battle. In Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes, William Rapai focuses on the impact of these invasives.
Rapai begins with a brief biological and geological history of the Great Lakes. He then examines the history of the Great Lakes from a human dimension, with the construction of the Erie Canal and Welland Canal, opening the doors to an ecosystem that had previously been isolated. The seven chapters that follow each feature a different invasive species, with information about its arrival and impact, including a larger story of ballast water, control efforts, and a forward-thinking shift to prevention.
Rapai makes a strong case for what is at stake with the growing number of invasive species in the lakes. He examines new policies and the tradeoffs that must be weighed, and ends with an inspired call for action.
The book is published by Wayne State University Press.
Reseñas de la Crítica
Más títulos del mismo
Related to this topic
-
Plastic Ocean
- De: Capt. Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, which inspired a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
-
-
Informative
- De Paul en 01-30-23
De: Capt. Charles Moore, y otros
-
The Ocean of Life
- The Fate of Man and the Sea
- De: Callum Roberts
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
-
-
Must listen for nature and marine lover's
- De Andrew Tennant en 03-07-18
De: Callum Roberts
-
Sex in the Sea
- Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
- De: Marah J. Hardt
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome while holding their breath; full-moon sex parties of groupers; and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops.
-
-
How to laugh while learning/ learn while laughing
- De Miamigrrl en 07-27-16
De: Marah J. Hardt
-
Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
-
-
Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
-
The Source
- How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
- De: Martin Doyle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment - over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the US Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the origins of the Army Corps of Engineers, the discovery of gold in 1848, and the construction of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina.
-
-
Great historical read without compare.
- De Thomas P Dore en 04-10-18
De: Martin Doyle
-
The Future of Life
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Ed Begley Jr.
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Today we understand that our world is infinitely richer than was ever previously guessed. Yet it is so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the century. These two contrasting truths - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have become compellingly clear during the past two decades of research on biological diversity. In his dazzlingly intelligent book, Wilson describes the treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and how we can save them.
-
-
A scientifically-grounded case for the environment
- De Lucas en 01-24-10
De: Edward O. Wilson
-
Plastic Ocean
- De: Capt. Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, which inspired a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
-
-
Informative
- De Paul en 01-30-23
De: Capt. Charles Moore, y otros
-
The Ocean of Life
- The Fate of Man and the Sea
- De: Callum Roberts
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
-
-
Must listen for nature and marine lover's
- De Andrew Tennant en 03-07-18
De: Callum Roberts
-
Sex in the Sea
- Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
- De: Marah J. Hardt
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome while holding their breath; full-moon sex parties of groupers; and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops.
-
-
How to laugh while learning/ learn while laughing
- De Miamigrrl en 07-27-16
De: Marah J. Hardt
-
Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
-
-
Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
-
The Source
- How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
- De: Martin Doyle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment - over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the US Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the origins of the Army Corps of Engineers, the discovery of gold in 1848, and the construction of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina.
-
-
Great historical read without compare.
- De Thomas P Dore en 04-10-18
De: Martin Doyle
-
The Future of Life
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Ed Begley Jr.
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Today we understand that our world is infinitely richer than was ever previously guessed. Yet it is so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the century. These two contrasting truths - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have become compellingly clear during the past two decades of research on biological diversity. In his dazzlingly intelligent book, Wilson describes the treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and how we can save them.
-
-
A scientifically-grounded case for the environment
- De Lucas en 01-24-10
De: Edward O. Wilson
-
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
- Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
- De: Miriam Horn
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work - restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans - would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land - the iconic terrain where explorers and cowboys, pioneers, and riverboat captains forged the American identity. They feel a moral responsibility to preserve this heritage and natural wealth.
-
-
great stories
- De GMMT en 05-15-18
De: Miriam Horn
-
The Humane Economy
- How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals
- De: Wayne Pacelle
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical road map for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York Times best-selling author of The Bond.
-
-
For all lovers of animals--even the most sensitive
- De monique en 05-01-16
De: Wayne Pacelle
-
Drinking Water
- A History
- De: James Salzman
- Narrado por: Lee Hahn
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is your water going to come from in the future? In Drinking Water, Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time.
-
-
Hard not to be affected by this book
- De Neuron en 11-16-13
De: James Salzman
-
Pandemic
- Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Sonia Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera - one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens - and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
-
-
You will probably enjoy "Spillover" more
- De serine en 03-01-16
De: Sonia Shah
-
Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
-
-
Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
-
Orca
- How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
- De: Jason M. Colby
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator.
-
-
informative yet heartbreaking - we must do better
- De Anonymous User en 09-29-23
De: Jason M. Colby
-
The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- De: Enric Sala
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.
-
-
mediocre
- De Anthony Dimaggio en 01-16-24
De: Enric Sala
-
Poison Spring
- The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
- De: E. G. Vallianatos, McKay Jenkins
- Narrado por: Michael McConnahie
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world.
-
-
A Frightening Wake Up Call!
- De Exec. Chef 'Special K' en 07-02-14
De: E. G. Vallianatos, y otros
-
The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
-
-
Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
-
Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
-
-
More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel
-
The Vertical Farm
- Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- De: Dickson Despommier
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
-
-
Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
-
The Soil Will Save Us
- How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
- De: Kristin Ohlson
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the way we think about our food, our landscapes, our plants, and our relationship to Earth.
-
-
Rambling, mile wide, inch deep treatment of a subject
- De Charles Phillips en 10-17-18
De: Kristin Ohlson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Lake Invaders
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- wbiro
- 05-01-18
Satisfied my Urge for an In-depth Specific Topic
It helped that I grew up in the Great Lakes Region... as for a critique, I was bemused that the book heavily focused on 'stopping' the spread of invasive species, and it covered several successful approaches; and it noted how victim species sometimes turn the tables when they discover that the young of the invasive species are tasty treats... So the book is thinking 'stopping them' and I'm thinking, 'all that food' for a growing human civilization... the book does touch on that 'gastro' solution, but far too lightly. One noteworthy quip: "Let's just fish them into extinction - we are very good at that..."
So contrary to the books premise that invasive species are a plague (to bio-diversity, granted), I noted that they may also be 'man's best friend' - as a swiftly self-producing source of food... so the ideal solution would be to take advantage of that AND maintain bio-diverslty... the field isn't new, but there is still a lot of research and solution experimentation and implementation to be done...
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña