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Going Nuclear
What if climate change isn't an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?
'Fascinating' JAMES O'BRIEN
'Thrilling...vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring' STEVEN PINKER
'Powerful' BRYAN APPLEYARD, Spectator
'I challenge you to read this book and not be excited about how we get on and power the world with sustainable energy for the next century' HANNAH RITCHIE
In this visionary book, Dr Tim Gregory urges us to rethink the path to net zero. He argues 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.
Gregory dismantles the conventional wisdom that renewables such as wind and solar are completely 'green', and debunks myths surrounding nuclear waste and radiation, demonstrating that nuclear power is not only reliable, safe and potent, but the most environmentally responsible way to harvest energy.
Going Nuclear calls for decarbonisation to be the twenty-first century's Apollo programme. By interweaving scientific optimism, myth-busting data, and ambitious policy ideas, Gregory illustrates the untapped and boundless potential of the atom beyond just clean energy: from advanced medicine and forensics to atomic gardening and space exploration.
This is a bold case for an alternative, sustainable and prosperous future: a world in which abundant energy is available to all.
Becoming Earth
A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life.
The notion of a living world is one of humanity's oldest beliefs. Though once scorned by many scientists, the concept of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. Life not only adapts to its surroundings - it also shapes them in dramatic and enduring ways.
Over billions of years, life transformed a lump of orbiting rock into our cosmic oasis, breathing oxygen into the atmosphere, concocting the modern oceans, and turning rock into fertile soil. Life is intertwined with Earth's capacity to regulate its climate and maintain balance.
Through compelling narrative, evocative descriptions and lucid explanations, Becoming Earth shows us how Earth became the world we've known, how it is rapidly becoming a very different world, and how we will determine what kind of Earth our descendants inherit for millennia to come.
Zůstat u nesnází
Uprostřed rostoucí ekologické a sociální devastace nabízí feministická teoretička vícedruhových vztahů Donna J. Haraway nové, provokativní způsoby, jak opustit antropocentrismus a přehodnotit náš vztah k Zemi a všem tvorům, které ji obývají. Ve splétaných umělecko-vědecko-aktivistických úvahách a spekulativní fikci Haraway konceptualizuje dnešní dobu jako tzv. chthulucén, jenž na rozdíl od antropocénu výstižněji popisuje naši současnost, v níž jsou lidské a mimolidské bytosti neoddělitelně propojeny v chapadlovitých praktikách vícedruhových interakcí.
Donna J. Haraway je emeritní profesorkou na katedře dějin vědomí na Kalifornské univerzitě v Santa Cruz. Její výzkum a dílo, které se zaměřuje na současný ekofeminismus a studia vědy a technologií, se pohybuje v dialogu s myšlenkami Isabelle Stengers, Vinciane Despret, Bruna Latoura a mnoha dalších.
Ocean - Earth's Last Wilderness
From the icy seas of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Now, with long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of our last great wilderness - the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe.
Dive into eight unique saltwater habitats, swim through kelp forests, mangroves and coral reefs and down almost 11,000 feet to the deepest corners of the most unexplored ecosystem on our planet.
Experience a journey of wonder and discovery, populated by green turtles and blue whales; clownfish and bioluminescent jellyfish; the vampire squid and the 'head-less chicken monster' - a strange form of sea cucumber that lives at the very bottom of the ocean.
With the warmth, intelligence and awe that characterises all of David Attenborough's landmark series, Ocean shows us a world which is both desperately fragile yet astonishingly resilient, with an extraordinary capacity to repair itself. It's not too late to restore our most vital habitat. If we treat it with respect, our marine world will be even richer and more spectacular than we can imagine.
A book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed.
Polární ekologie Svalbardu
V polárních oblastech se nacházejí jedinečné, ale zranitelné a často i ohrožené ekosystémy, které si zasluhují podrobnější studium. Pro Evropany je ideálním místem pro první seznámení se s polárními oblastmi arktické souostroví Svalbard, neboť je to místo logisticky dobře přístupné a současně nabízející člověkem dosud velmi málo ovlivněné biotopy, které mají díky přísné ochraně norské správy velkou naději na to, že zůstanou zachovány i pro příští generace. Svalbard je zároveň jakousi živoucí učebnicí, pomocí níž lze ilustrovat obecné ekologické zákonitosti sahající od neživé přírody přes mikroorganismy až k cévnatým rostlinám a živočichům včetně člověka. Autoři této knihy – odborníci z různých přírodovědných oborů – vybrali nejnázornější příklady těchto zákonitostí ze svalbardské přírody, aby s nimi seznámili širokou veřejnost. Kniha s bohatým obrazovým materiálem může sloužit jako příručka pro studenty vysokých i středních škol, ale také jako zdroj základních informací o polární ekologii pro zájemce o tuto pozoruhodnou disciplínu.
Is a River Alive
From the celebrated writer and observer 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 that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young ‘Rights of Nature’ movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.
Is a River Alive? flows like water from the mountains to the sea, over three major journeys:
The first is to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened with destruction by gold-mining.
The second is to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way.
The third is 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.
Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream who rises a mile from Macfarlane’s house, and flows through his own years and days.
Passionate, immersive and revelatory, Is a River Alive? is at once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date. It is a book that will open hearts, spark debates and challenge perspectives. Lit throughout by other minds and voices, it invites us radically to reimagine not only rivers but also life itself. At the centre of this vital, beautiful book is the recognition that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has.
The Ocean's Menagerie
A transporting exploration of the deep sea, and how our planet’s strangest, most ancient and astonishing creatures have urgent relevance to cutting-edge science today.
Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms the size and shape of cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on Earth, seeming to bend the rules of land-based biology. Although sometimes unseen in the deep, these incredible spineless creatures contain 600 million years of adaptation to problems of disease, energy consumption, nutrition, and defence.
Marine ecologist Dr Drew Harvell takes us diving from Hawaii to the Salish Sea, from the Caribbean to Indonesia, to uncover the incredible underwater ‘superpowers’ of spineless creatures: we meet corals many times stronger than steel or concrete, sponges who create potent chemical compounds to fight off disease, and sea stars who garden the coastlines, keeping all the other nearby species in perfect balance. As our planet changes fast, the biomedical, engineering and energy innovations of these wondrous creatures hold ever more important secrets to our own survival.
The Ocean’s Menagerie is a tale of biological marvels, a story of a woman’s passionate connection to an adventurous career in science and a call to arms to protect the world’s most ancient ecosystems.
Hope Dies Last
'One of the most exciting books I've ever read'- Louise Erdrich
In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of the precarious state of our planet and what it means to be a human on the front lines of this existential crisis. His new uplifting book, Hope Dies Last, is a literary evocation of our current predicament and the core optimism of the human species against the worst odds we have ever faced.
To write this book, Weisman has travelled the globe witnessing the devastation of climate change and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to wetlands renewal in Iraq, and from the Netherlands to the Korean DMZ to cities and coastlines around the world, he has witnessed personally the best of humanity battling the heat, the hunger, and the rising tides. He profiles the work of big thinkers-engineers, scientists, economists, and psychiatrists-as they devise innovative and wildly creative responses to an uncertain and frightening future. We are at an unprecedented point in history, as our collective exploits on this planet are leading us to our own undoing, and we could be one of the species marching toward extinction.
A remedy to climate anxiety by one of our most important voices on humans' relationship with the Earth, Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Now that we have passed the point of no return in our battle against climate change, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected?
7 pádů odpadu
Knížka 7 pádů odpadu není odborná publikace. Jedná se o pokus zviditelnění a popularizace tématu odpadů pomocí zkušeností načerpaných během více než dekády provozu internetového projektu trideniodpadu.cz a zájmu o odpadovou problematiku a potažmo s ní související téma životního prostředí. Neklade si — a ani si klást nemůže — za cíl vysvětlit vše kolem odpadů. Proto v ní nejsou žádná čísla, grafy, statistiky a ani nekonečné výčty směrnic a vyhlášek, které jsou běžnému člověku k ničemu.
Najdete zde 7 kapitol jako sedm gramatických pádů.
1. pád Kdo, co je odpad? Stručná historie odpadu od pravěku až po nedávnou minulost. A vysvětlení, co je to ten odpad vlastně zač.
2. pád Koho a čí jsou odpady? Kdo má zodpovědnost za odpady jednak z pohledu legislativy, ale zároveň i z pohledu každodenní reality.
3. pád Komu, čemu škodí odpady? Proč bychom měli svým odpadům konečně věnovat zvýšenou pozornost.
4. pád Koho odpady zajímají? Kdo všechno s odpady přijde do styku a proč se jimi vůbec zabývá.
5. pádem voláme. O pomoc, jak z té odpadové šlamastyky ven.
6. pád O kom, o čem tady mluvíme? Stručný přehled těch nejběžnějších odpadů. Odkud se berou, jak se třídí a jak se zpracovávají.
7. pád S kým a čím se odpadům bráníme? Kapitola o způsobech zpracování odpadů, možných metodách předcházení jejich vzniku.
Ecocide in Ukraine
Russia’s war on Ukraine has not only destroyed millions of human lives, it has also been catastrophic for the environment. Forests and fields have been burned to the ground, animal and plant species pushed to the brink of extinction, soil and water contaminated with oil products, debris, and mines. On a single day in June 2023, the breached Kakhovka Dam flooded thousands of kilometres of protected natural habitat, as well as villages, towns, and agricultural land. The devastation of biodiversity and ecosystems across Ukraine has been immeasurable, long-lasting and its consequences stretch beyond national borders.
In this poignant book, Ukrainian researcher Darya Tsymbalyuk offers an intimate portrait of her beloved homeland against the backdrop of Russia’s war and ecocide. In elegant and moving prose, she describes the damage to the country’s rivers, the grasslands of the steppes, animals, insects, and colonies of birds, as a result of Russia’s ground and air operations. Alongside the everyday experiences of people in Ukraine living with the environmental consequences of the war, we share Tsymbalyuk’s own reckoning with the changing nature of cherished places and the loss of familiar worlds caused by the ongoing Russian invasion.
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind.
For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. The global population is forecast to begin declining in the second half of this century, and in 10,000 years' time our species will likely be extinct.
In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Henry Gee shows how we arrived at this crucial moment in history, beginning his story deep in the palaeolithic past and charting our dramatic rise from one species of human among many to the most dominant animal to ever live on Earth.
But rapid climate change, a stagnating global economy, falling birth rates and an unexplainable decline in average human sperm count are combining to make our chances for longevity increasingly slim. There could be a way forward, but the launch window is narrow . . .
Drawing on a dazzling array of the latest scientific research, Gee tells the extraordinary story of humanity with characteristic warmth and wit, and suggests how our exceptional species might avoid its tragic fate.
Chaos in the Heavens
Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century, by the European imperialists in Asia and Africa until the Second World War.
Climate change was at the heart of fundamental debates about colonisation, God, the state, nature, and capitalism. From these intellectual and political battles emerged key concepts of contemporary environmental science and policy. For a brief interlude, science and industry instilled in us the reassuring illusion of an impassive climate. But, in the age of global warming, we must, once again, confront the chaos in the heavens.
Just Earth
In this extraordinary and hopeful book, leading environmentalist Tony Juniper CBE identifies the real problem at the heart of the climate and nature crises.
From soil loss to wildfires, degraded rivers, mass migration and conflict, the environmental crisis is already here - and it's set to get much worse. While billionaires build remote bunkers and make plans for colonies on Mars, climate collapse impacts the most vulnerable among us first and hardest. But what this radical and ground-breaking book proves is that inequality isn't just about who suffers the consequences, it is the main obstacle blocking action — and it has been for decades.
How can people lead good lives without ultimately hastening global collapse? The answer lies in fairness. We can't fight the climate and nature crises without addressing the ever-widening gaps between the rich and poor, the powerful and the weak. Drawing upon more than 40 years of experience in research, practical work, campaigning and advocacy, combined with interviews with globally renowned experts, in Just Earth Tony Juniper reveals the system shifts needed to achieve real, lasting change.
Something About the Sky
Cut-paper wizard Nikki McClure is a brilliant steward for the words of a pioneering environmentalist in this wondrous ode to clouds—and the scientific “language of the sky.”
Rachel Carson once wrote, “It is not half so important to know as to feel.” What do we know about clouds? There are three basic types: stratus, cumulus, and cirrus. Some are fleecy and fair-weathered while others portend storms. But clouds are more than pretty or ominous backdrops. They’re the vehicle of water between sea and land, land and sea, in a cycle without end or beginning. They are the writing of the wind on the sky, a language all their own. An illustrator note explains the origins of Rachel Carson’s shimmering essay—previously unpublished in its entirety—and the process of adapting it to picture book format, as well as how the author of Silent Spring forever changed the way we think about science and progress. Bringing the soft edges of clouds and the natural world to vivid life with a new, more fluid approach to her signature cut-paper technique, Nikki McClure inspires true emotional engagement with the world we all share. An antidote to “get your head out of the clouds,” this art-meets-science tribute to curiosity and wonder is a gift for daydreamers and nature lovers of all ages.
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. We follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds, where they conducted groundbreaking experiments, and meet NASA scientists who send balloons even higher, to search for life in the stratosphere.
Zimmer chronicles the dark side of aerobiology with gripping accounts of how the United States and the Soviet Union clandestinely built arsenals of biological weapons designed to spread anthrax and smallpox.
Air-Borne prompts us to look at the world with new eyes - as a place where the oceans and forests loft trillions of cells into the air, where microbes eat clouds, and where life soars thousands of miles on the wind.
Weaving together spellbinding history with the latest reporting on airborne threats to global health, this masterwork makes visible an invisible world.
Adventures in Volcanoland
Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these momentous geological formations, the cultural and religious roles they have played in the minds of those living around them at different times throughout history, and the science behind their formation and eruptions.
Volcanoes help to make and shape our world, bursting forth from inside of the earth and, in many places, looming over us. Present since the earth's beginning they continue to maintain its life support systems and, their extraordinary chemistry may even have created the ingredients needed for life to kick start.
In some places volcanoes are even beginning to provide us with part of the energy we need to curb our use of fossil fuels. They have fascinated humans for millennia, their eruptions charted throughout history, seeming to show us how the earth has been living, breathing and changing for billions of years.
Why exactly are these geological mammoths found where they are? What can they teach us about our environment, the Anthropocene and the ecological disaster that is climate change? Are there volcanoes on other planets, and what might they tell us about whether we could one day live there if we exhaust our own habitat? How can we predict if or when volcanoes might explode?
Adventures in Volcanoland is an enthralling mix of travel, science and environmental writing for fans of Robert MacFarlane and Raynor Winn.
The Gambling Animal
Evolution is a series of bets, and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes, but our winning streak cuts both ways: the secret to our success may yet be our downfall. The Gambling Animal offers a revelatory retelling of the human story.
Drawing on their unique research into the management of risk by humans and other animals - including their groundbreaking work with elephants in Limpopo hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand - Harrison and Ross reveal the hidden logic of our rise. But with an ecological crisis on the horizon, how long will our winning streak continue?
Nekoniec sveta
Strach z budúcnosti. Obavy, že ľudstvo je stratené. Presvedčenie, že sa už nič nedá robiť a náš osud na tejto planéte je definitívne spečatený.
Zdá sa vám to povedomé? Mnohí ľudia, najmä mladšie generácie, dnes trpia klimatickou úzkosťou a ich obavy o budúcnosť planéty sú také veľké, že na tento svet nechcú priviesť deti.
Im, ako aj starším generáciám, môže kniha Nekoniec sveta škótskej dátovej vedkyne Hannah Ritchieovej otvoriť oči a pomôcť pozrieť sa dianie okolo nás s novou perspektívou.
Ešte nie je koniec. Existuje reálna šanca, že sa môžeme stať prvou generáciou, ktorá svet nasledujúcej generácii odovzdá v lepšom stave, než v akom ho prevzala.
„Mojou úlohou nie je písať prvotné štúdie ani odhaľovať vedecké objavy, ale pochopiť to, čo už vieme... Ak chceme mať vo veci jasno, potrebujeme určitý odstup. Ak pár krokov odstúpime, uvidíme niečo naozaj radikálne, niečo, čo zmení celú hru a je prísľubom života: ľudstvo má naozaj jedinečnú šancu vybudovať udržateľný svet. Pesimizmus nie je na mieste. Potrebujeme viac odhodlaného optimizmu, že sa veci dajú zmeniť.“ - Hannah Ritchie
Vedro - Život a smrt na spálené planetě
Co dělat, když teplota na teploměru pořád stoupá — a možná už neklesne.
Planeta se otepluje a lidstvo musí řešit vršící se dopady klimatické změny: sucho, záplavy, stoupající hladiny moří… Globální oteplování má však i mnohem přímočařejší dopady na jedince, společnost i globální systémy — je prostě stále větší horko. A vlny veder i rostoucí průměrná teplota si začínají vybírat svou daň: nejen na lidském zdraví, ale také na tom zvířecím, na čím dál náročnějším a nákladnějším zemědělství, v rychlejším šíření virů a nákaz, ve větším počtu migrantů či v technologických výzvách. Kniha Vedro zkoumá všechny tyto jevy, vysvětluje, jak různé vlny veder vlastně vznikají, mapuje jejich dopady po celém světě a za pomoci vědců, zemědělců i obyčejných lidí hledá cesty, jak jim čelit. Problému stoupajícího horka se totiž v následujících desetiletích nevyhne nikdo na planetě.
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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.
