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"Even in the intensely cold, windy, and dry environment of Antarctica, a wide variety of wildlife--from the massive swarms of krill in the Southern Ocean to the throngs of penguins on its icy shores-- finds ways to thrive. Some species of Antarctic fishes make a natural antifreeze that prevents their blood from freezing solid, and although no trees grow on Antarctica, a forest of giant seaweed flourishes under the sea. Antarctica's creatures are exquisitely...
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"On this land of ice, where we are thousands of miles of ice and mountains, it's really beautiful." Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest, and most remote part of the world. No one owns it. Only peaceful and scientific endeavors are permitted. It is a true wilderness. Delve into the incredible geography, biodiversity, and exploratory history of the world's coldest continent through the diary entries of George W. Gibbs, Jr., the first Black person...
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Explores the rise and continuing problem of climate change and why it seems to be taking so long for world governments to enact effective change. Offers a range of possible solutions, including food and agricultural solutions, ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and simply inventing new things that help us adapt better to a changing climate. Includes photographs and lists of further resources online.
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Much of our understanding of climate change and the precarious state of the Earth's polar ice is due to the work of French glaciologist Claude Lorius. This program documents several of his missions to Antarctica and his primary innovation: heavy-hydrogen analysis of drilled ice core samples. Detailed interviews with Lorius and with several of his colleagues are interwoven with astonishing, rarely seen archival footage-steeping viewers in the lore...
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Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated place in the world. And it is home to the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley Research Station. Here, cutting-edge science is making vital discoveries about how our lives are vulnerable to the sun and threatened by climate change. But the future of Halley is in danger: it rests on a constantly moving – and cracking – ice shelf. A huge chasm is cutting through the ice, threatening to...
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Connects readers with information about the geography, location, and natural resources on the continent of Antarctica. Offers locator maps, photographs, and sidebars. Concludes with a glossary, an index, text-dependent questions, an activity, and a brief biography of the author.
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Whatever your views, climate change is now a familiar part of everyday conversation. We all know what it is, even if we don't all agree on what we think about it. But 50 years ago, the science of climate change was an academic backwater. The journey from scientific obscurity to the full glare of publicity has been fascinating, full of strange twists, extreme natural disasters, ambitious theories and changing fashions. This Horizon Guide looks back...
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In recent years, climate science has come under attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. They talk about their work, hopes and fears with candor and directness, resulting in an intimate portrait of the...
15) Biodiversity
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Offering a panoramic view of opinions selected from a diverse range of international sources, this book traces controversies on the importance of biodiversity for both humans and the planet and presents facts on the extinction of species of animals around the globe and the loss of rain forest plants and animals.
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"Naira de Gracia's The Last Cold Place offers a dramatic, captivating window into a once-in-a-lifetime experience: a season living and working in a remote outpost in Antarctica alongside seals, penguins, and a small crew of fellow field workers. In one of the most inhospitable environments in the world (for humans, anyway), Naira follows a generation of chinstrap penguins from their parents' return to shore to build nests from pebbles until the chicks...
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Six different teams of scientists, each studying different areas and aspects of Antarctica, arrive on the continent after years in the planning and millions of dollars of expense. The continent is home to the coldest, windiest, driest conditions on the planet, and without Scott Base, the hub of Antarctica New Zealand's missions these teams couldn't survive. One team has come to study the inner workings of Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano...
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This program presents a comprehensive scientific examination of global warming and El Nino, while viewers travel to the battlefields of Waterloo, to Hawaii and Antarctica, and across North America to learn how complex, contradictory, and influential weather can be. Topics include the role played by weather in Napoleon's defeat, and the relationship of El Nino to underwater volcanic activity. Students are encouraged to question the scientific assumptions...
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Made in consultation with the IPCC and world leading climate scientists, this brand new, groundbreaking documentary explains the big headlines that will be addressed by the Fifth Assessment Report in 2015, and how we may be in the middle of the most crucial moment of Earth's history. It decodes thousands of pages of scientific data into digestible, easy to understand science, punctuated in places by clever, creative CGI. Areas of concern covered include...
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This eye-opening documentary explores the latest scientific and technological developments in the study of earth’s melting ice stores to discover the fate of our planet in 1000 years time. Reaching deep into our planet’s history, scientists search for clues to what might happen in the future. Whilst advanced special effects and high-end computer animation provide us with a window into what this future may look like. Follow scientists as they drill...