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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
All life is made from CO2 . It was there at earth’s birth, and throughout evolution. It has kept our planet habitable for hundreds of millions of years. It has given us all the splendours of the world we know today. And yet it also holds the potential for life's destruction.In this gripping adventure through eras and places, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen tells the story of the world’s most important molecule. We travel from the beginning of time all the way up to our present reality, witnessing the staggering journey that CO2 has undertaken.As we watch its movements through the rocks, the air, the oceans and living beings over four billion years, we come to see more clearly what it means for us to be churning through ancient life – in the form of fossil fuels – as we power our industrial world. We are, Brannen shows, performing an unprecedented experiment on our planet. If we are to avoid its catastrophic consequences, we must all begin to deepen our understanding of this curious substance, which has given us everything from the very first life forms on earth to the business titans reshaping our planet today.
Mokřady. Ekologie, ochrana a udržitelné využívání
Společné dílo třiceti odborníků působících v oblastech výzkumu, využívání a ochrany mokřadů představuje první české původní souborné zpracování této problematiky, které nyní vychází v novém, revidovaném vydání. Kromě obecné charakteristiky mokřadů zahrnuje popis hlavních typů přímořských i vnitrozemských mokřadů včetně mělkých vod a lesů mokrých stanovišť, přičemž hlavní pozornost je věnována mokřadům České republiky. Kniha je užitečným zdrojem základních informací o ekologii, ochraně, obnově a využívání mokřadů. Odkazuje na více než tisíc původních informačních zdrojů, a tak je možné z ní vycházet i při hlubším poznání mokřadů. Může také sloužit jako učebnice nebo příručka pro studenty vysokých i středních škol. Kniha dostala Cenu Josefa Hlávky za odbornou a vědeckou knihu 2017.
A remény könyve
Egy legendás környezetvédő. Egy életen át tartó küzdelem a természetért. Egy létfontosságú üzenet a reményről.
Jane Goodall világhírű természettudós majdnem egy egész évszázadon keresztül emelte fel szavát bolygónkért. A fiatal korában Gombe erdeiben csimpánzokkal együtt élve tett úttörő felfedezéseivel és fáradhatatlan környezetvédő munkájával Jane egy szebb, reménytelibb világ mellett elkötelezett nemzedék felnevelésében vállalt tevékeny szerepet egész életében.
A remény könyvében a természetnek szentelt életútján szerzett tapasztalatait osztja meg velünk, és beavat minket abba is, hogy miért maradt mindig rendületlen a természet világába és az emberiségbe vetett hite. A könyv társszerzőjével, Douglas Abramsszel folytatott beszélgetései felelevenítik utazásai és aktivista tevékenysége megannyi epizódját, új megvilágításba helyezve korunk nagy krízisét, az éghajlatváltozást.
Sosem volt még ekkora szükségünk a reményre. A világ egyik legszeretettebb emberének a könyve megmutatja, hogy hatalmas problémáink ellenére is reményt meríthetünk az emberi természetből és magából a természetből.
Going Nuclear
What if climate change isn't an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?
This visionary book urges us to rethink the path to net zero, arguing that the solution to climate change lies not simply in replacing fossil fuels with renewables, but in fully embracing another energy source that emits zero carbon dioxide: nuclear power.
Dr Tim Gregory dismantles the conventional wisdom that renewables are completely 'green', and debunks myths surrounding waste and radiation, demonstrating that nuclear power is not only reliable, safe and potent, but the most environmentally responsible way to harvest energy. He calls for decarbonisation to be the twenty-first century's Apollo programme, making the bold case for an alternative, sustainable and prosperous future.
Natures Echo
Nature wants to heal, and we can help.
When Earth's ecosystems fall out of harmony, the damage can spiral out of control. But what if we could help nature to regain its balance?
As a leading ecologist, Professor Thomas Crowther studies not just how species work in isolation, but how complex ecosystems regulate themselves. When nature's cycles are allowed to build momentum, each species can create the conditions to allow others to thrive. From the birth of galaxies to the creation of life, the greatest transformations in our universe have been driven by quiet, self-reinforcing processes known as feedback loops.
Drawing on cutting-edge ecological science, gripping personal narrative and initiatives already happening around the world, Nature's Echo shows how natural feedback loops have astonishing power to rebound, even with minor intervention. If we can only realize how integral we are to this highly interconnected natural world, we will re-discover the path to a better future.
Élnek-e a folyók?
A Lennvilág sikerszerzőjétől
Az Élnek-e a folyók? három felejthetetlen vidékre kalauzol, miközben formálja a folyókról és magáról az életről alkotott elképzeléseinket. Az első út Ecuador felhőerdeibe, a második Délkelet-Indiába, Csennai patakjaihoz és lagúnáihoz, a harmadik pedig Kanada vad vizeihez vezet. Mindhárom helyen élőnek tartják a folyókat, amelyeket súlyosan veszélyeztet a bányászat, a szennyezés és a duzzasztógátak.
Robert Macfarlane könyvét a The New Yorker, az Economist és a The Guardian 2025-ben az év legjobb könyvei közé választotta, a The New York Times bestsellere lett, és szerepel a Time magazin 100-as listáján.
Eat the Planet Well
Everyone needs to read this book Isabella Tree'A clarion call' Caroline LucasHow can we eat well without harming the planet?The way we produce food today is damaging people and nature alike. Modern, intensive farming systems producing pesticide-laced, ultra-processed foods are bad for us and bad for the planet.But there is cause for hope. From supporting more sustainable farming systems and modifying what we eat to wasting less and growing more ourselves, Dave Goulson shows that change is possible and individual choices do matter even while governments fail to act.Packed with surprising insights and practical guidance, Eat the Planet Well cuts through the information overload to help us navigate the tricky decisions we face every day, and offers an optimistic vision for a healthier future.
Kořenové čistírny
Voda je základní esencí života. Bez ní by neexistovala krajina, příroda ani člověk. Přesto k ní lidstvo dlouho přistupovalo jako k samozřejmosti, a zejména odpadní voda byla po staletí vnímána jen jako problém, který je třeba rychle odvést pryč.
Způsoby nakládání s ní se vyvíjely od jednoduchých stok až po moderní kanalizační systémy, pohled na její hodnotu se však – naštěstí – proměňuje. Dnes už víme, že odpadní voda nemusí být jen zátěží. Může se stát cenným zdrojem – lze ji znovu využít, recyklovat či zapojit do modro-zelené infrastruktury, která nám pomáhá zvládat dopady klimatických změn.
Voda, kterou jsme jednou použili, nemusí být ztracená. Lze ji vrátit zpět do koloběhu jako součást naší udržitelné budoucnosti.
Living Planet
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.
Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. These adaptations can be truly extraordinary: fish that walk or lay eggs on leaves in mid-air; snakes that fly; flightless birds that graze like deer; and bears that grow hair on the soles of their feet.
In The Living Planet, David Attenborough's searching eye, unfailing curiosity and infectious enthusiasm explain and illuminate the intricate lives of the these colonies, from the lonely heights of the Himalayas to the wild creatures that have established themselves in the most recent of environments, the city. By the end of this book it is difficult to say which is the more astonishing - the ingenuity with which individual species contrive a living, or the complexity of their interdependence on each other and on the habitations provided by our planet.
In this new edition, the author, with the help of zoologist Matthew Cobb, has added all the most up-to-date discoveries of ecology and biology, as well as a full-colour 64-page photography section. He also addresses the urgent issues facing our living planet: climate change, pollution and mass extinction of species.
Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic
Over the past seventy years, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and other consumer goods makers have harnessed single-use plastics to turbocharge their profits. They've poured billions of dollars into convincing us we need disposable diapers, cups, bags, bottles, shampoo in sachets and plastic-packaged ultra-processed foods.
We were never clamouring for any of these items, but this shift towards disposability has fundamentally transformed our daily habits. Think of toddlers kept in disposable diapers for far longer than their parents wore cloth, our obsession with bottled water and our insatiable appetite for convenient snacks and coffee. While at first we shaped plastics, somewhere along the way, plastics took over and began shaping us.
Like any addiction, our plastic habit has consequences. It is damaging our climate and biodiversity and we are only just starting to understand its effect on our own health. How did plastic take over our lives? And why have we been unable to rein it in? In investigating how we got here, Consumed arms us to make better decisions about where we go next. It is only by understanding this history that we will stop accepting the same failed solutions and demand better from the brands that got us hooked on plastic in the first place.
Války s odpadem
Skládky po celém světě jsou přeplněné a spory o to, jak naložit s miliony tun odpadu vedou k válkám, o nichž málokdo tuší. Některé z nich mají charakter pohraničních potyček, v jiných se odpadky přesouvají tisíce kilometrů. Investigativní novinář Alexander Clapp strávil dva roky putováním po pěti kontinentech, aby zjistil, že většina vyhozených věcí žije tajným druhým životem – převážejí se, prodávají, přeprodávají a pašují se z jedné země do druhé, často s ničivými důsledky pro nejchudší národy světa. Kniha Války s odpadem je strhujícím expozé toho, jak a proč se za posledních čtyřicet let z našich odpadků zrodila obrovská, globální ekonomika v hodnotě mnoha miliard dolarů.
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When the Forest Breathes
When the forest breathes out, we breathe in. When the forest thrives, we thrive.
The world-renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard has transformed our understanding of the profound intelligence and interconnectedness of trees. In When the Forest Breathes, she uncovers how the deep-rooted cycles of renewal that sustain the forest can also help us to protect our entire global ecosystem.
Raised in a family of loggers committed to sustainable stewardship of the land, Simard has watched as timber companies leave the forests of her native British Columbia vulnerable to wildfires and drought, threatening the crucial biodiversity that they support. But her groundbreaking research for the Mother Tree Project - one of the most ambitious forest ecology experiments of its kind - has the potential to chart a new course. The forest, she reveals, is a living symphony of finely honed cycles of birth, growth, death and rebirth that hold the key to protecting the natural world. Working closely with local Indigenous communities, whose sustainable practices have been largely ignored, Simard examines how holistic, regenerative forestry that preserves the cycles of the forest can help solve the global climate crisis.
Weaving together scientific discoveries and luminous storytelling, Simard's book is a call to rediscover our kinship with the natural world, and listen to the lessons of the forest.
Neurazitelný
Jakými dvěma způsoby se dá najít smysl života? Proč byste měli začít trochu srát svoje okolí, pokud chcete být šťastní? Z jakých dvou důvodů se nejčastěji odpojujeme od svých partnerů a partnerek? Jak vás Temu tajně špehuje? Jsou Češi řízci v knedlíku? A můžeme opravdu milovat víc lidí najednou? Pokud toužíte najít odvahu dát světu i sobě to nejlepší, co ve vás je, tohle je kniha pro vás! Najdete v ní nefiltrované náhledy do nejpozoruhodnějších českých hlav a příběhů v nich ukrytých. Honza Vojtko, Pavel Moric, Dana Drábová, Jiří Langmajer, Tomáš Sedláček, Jiří Horáček, Marek Orko Vácha, Kateřina Cajthamlová a další se s vámi podělí o svou životní cestu a moudrost, kterou na ní nasbírali. Pomůžou vám tak objevit, kým můžete být vy. Buďme víc.
Elemental: How We Will Live on a Warming Planet
From the water-stressed mountains of the Arabian Peninsula to the wildfires raging through America's most populated regions, the climate crisis is already affecting the lives of millions. As natural disasters and increased scarcity shake the established world order to its core, Elemental reveals an alternative future is still possible.
Within this century, the new era of extreme weather will threaten India's ability to grow rice, prevent southern Europe's farms from providing the continent with fresh produce, and make building in Saudi Arabia near impossible. While such unprecedented challenges inevitably drive conflict, they will also encourage innovation, upending economies and global power structures to create opportunities for new players and pioneering ways of living.
In this groundbreaking study, Arthur Snell visits rapidly changing societies to show how we can live on a warming planet. He presents a vision in which Africa powers Europe with solar energy, where autocratic oil states are no more, and new shipping routes across the melting Arctic bring Asia, Europe and North America closer than ever before. In Russia, huge areas of highly fertile land will be exposed by the melting ice for whoever can seize it, while China's stranglehold on rare minerals looks set to make it the world's leading superpower.
Through four sections - Earth, Air, Fire and Water - Elemental blends reportage with analysis and interviews with key experts, policymakers and politicians, to reveal the turbulent future we face - and the choices we need to make to avert disaster.
Is a River Alive
From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.
At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.
The book flows first to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining.
Then, to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way.
And finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.
At once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, spark debates and lead us to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has
Dark Laboratory
Our planet is on the precipice of ecological breakdown and climate despair is at an all-time high. But there are many communities who have survived beyond the environmental destruction wrought on them by colonialism - and they hold the solutions for climate repair.
Using the Caribbean as a case study, Tao Leigh Goffe traces the history of the islands back to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, when the Caribbean became the subject of Western exploitation. Charting the ecological forces that have shaped the islands - from guano to coral reefs, sugarcane to mongooses - and learning from Black, Indigenous and Asian island histories, Goffe makes the argument that the extractivist capitalism that is the origin of the climate crisis is borne from colonial thinking - and that to fight one effectively is to fight both.
Treating the Caribbean as both a warning and a guide, Dark Laboratory is a lyrical, vibrant and urgent investigation into the greatest threat facing humanity.
Plastic Inc
Plastic is everywhere in our daily lives. But the companies making it - oil and petrochemical giants like ExxonMobil and INEOS - are hiding in plain sight. Because for all the vivid coverage of where plastic ends up, there is remarkably little discussion of where it comes from. In a shocking investigative deep dive, packed with character-driven storytelling, award-winning journalist Beth Gardiner exposes the truth of the vast, rapacious industry flooding our world with plastic - and now preparing to make more than ever.
From the Gulf Coast of Texas to the narrow streets of Antwerp and the glitz and bling of Dubai, Gardiner gives us an up-close look at the plastic industry's relentless growth, its extraordinary profits, its toxic pollution, and its hidden role in exacerbating climate change. Today, the industry is pouring billions of dollars into plans to double, and eventually triple, the amount of plastic it churns out, even as so many of us -aghast at this material's out-of-control proliferation - try to use less. As Big Oil stares down a future of diminishing demand for fossil fuels, plastic has become its financial lifeline.
Plastic Inc is full of stunning revelations, including how Big Oil pushed plastic into our lives and then sold us myths about recycling to ease our worries; how companies funded litter campaigns to blame us for the waste they were creating; and how they've poured cash and political muscle into fighting bans on single-use plastics. Gardiner also uncovers the hidden health crisis caused by chemicals in the items we use every day, and scientists' growing fear that microplastics may pose even greater dangers.
Plastic Inc is an extraordinary exposé of an industry that will stop at nothing to feed its voracious hunger for profit.
Air-Borne
Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air – and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life.
In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. From NASA scientists conducting trailblazing experiments in the sky, to governments building clandestine arsenals of biological airborne weapons, Air-Borne prompts us to look at the world with fresh eyes.
Weaving together spellbinding history with the latest reporting on airborne threats to global health, this masterwork makes visible an invisible world.
Being an Oak
The enchanting biography of an ancient tree.
For over two centuries, as rulers have risen and fallen and wars have raged, one majestic oak tree has lived out an epic drama. From germination in 1780 to adapting to the changing climate of the modern age, its struggles and triumphs took place far from human eyes. That is, until one day a young man named Laurent Tillon came across it, and a decades-long relationship began ...
In this dazzling book, biodiversity expert Tillon narrates the story of the tree he calls Quercus. Evoking the richness which is all around us, he reveals that Quercus is embedded in a network of ever-shifting relationships, from close alliances between plants and animals to battles between insects, birds and fungi.
A book of ecology unlike any other, Being An Oak offers a tree-eyed view of life on earth.
Translated by the award-winning translator Jessica Moore.
Kategória literatúry Ekológia, meteorológia a klimatológia vám otvára dvere do fascinujúceho sveta vzťahu medzi životným prostredím, počasím a klímou. Tieto knihy a texty poskytujú pohľad na komplexné ekologické systémy, vývoj počasia a zmeny klímy.
Niektoré knihy sa zameriavajú na širšie témy, ako je vzájomná závislosť živých organizmov a ich prostredia, udržateľnosť a ochrana prírody. Iné knihy skúmajú konkrétne oblasti, ako sú výskum počasia, predpovede a extrémne klimatické javy.
Tieto knihy umožňujú lepšie porozumieť komplexite vzťahov medzi životným prostredím, atmosférou a klimatickými javmi. Budete mať možnosť preskúmať rôzne ekosystémy a ich funkcie, ako aj dôsledky zmeny klímy na životné prostredie a ľudské spoločnosti.
Kategória literatúry Ekológia, meteorológia a klimatológia je určená pre všetkých, ktorí majú záujem o ochranu životného prostredia a chcú lepšie porozumieť vzťahom medzi ľudskými aktivitami, počasím a klímou.
K najznámejším autorom patria Bea Johnson, Branislav Kovár, Oliver Zajac, Lucia Benediková, David Attenborough.
