Résultats pour "Extinction" dans Littérature du monde

2227, Système solaire. Alors qu’il effectue une mission à bord de son W-Orca, Adam gravite trop près d’un trou noir et se retrouve propulsé dans le futur. La Terre qu’il découvre n’a plus rien à voir avec celle qu’il a connue. Des humains au bord de l’extinction, un Esprit...

2031. La plupart des grandes espèces animales sont en voie d'extinction. Face au péril, Martin, un généticien vétérinaire et prix Nobel, alerte les chefs d'État de la planète réunis en conclave : il faut voter d'urgence un "Traité de protection de la Nature". Mais les résistances sont fortes et Martin ne fait pas le poids.

A zoologist in Australia gets funding to save an endangered species from the very company that threatens its existence. Will this deal with the devil allow her to save the species, or will it destroy her entire life's work? Includes an interview with playwright Hannie Rayson and director Martin Jarvis.

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Field Notes from an Extinction follows the life and work of one Ignatius Green, a fictitious English scientist dispatched by the Royal Society to the remote island of Tor Mor off the northern Irish coast. Green is single-minded and self-righteous, brilliant and bumbling. He is determined to set the record straight on the mating rituals, feeding and care of hatchlings, and other minutiae he can gather about the Great Auk (pinguinus impennis).

In Extinction and the Human, Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human.