Résultats pour "Sea Change" dans Sports et loisirs

Award-winning science writer Paul Bogard leads us in an awe-inspiring tour of what is right above our heads, helping us to look up from our screens and read the sky above us. In recent years, our ability to see the sky has expanded. Entire new fields of science have emerged, revealing a...

A wondrous journey along the greatest ocean current—classic travel writing and celebrations of natural wonders under threat Our world is a freak of nature. The finely balanced arrangement of ice at the poles and heat in the tropics is a once in a billion-year miracle of physics - made and...

Ocean Countryis an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning...

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees.

Dive into this uniquely elegant exploration of the sea. An exploration of marine life and the ocean environment, this audiobook makes marine biology and oceanography accessible and enjoyable. Oceanology offers up riches from every corner of the ocean, from coral reefs and mangrove swamps to icy...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARD BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF NONFICTION** An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of Aotearoa, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees Secrets of the Sea is a fascinating introduction to New Zealand's fish and shellfish, weaving...

Discover the extraordinary hidden life of the Gulf Stream, and why this vast system of Atlantic currents is one of the most important, and least understood, forces on Earth. Our world is a freak of nature. The stable climate that allowed complex life – and human civilisation – to flourish...

The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a meter or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due to climate change. Large parts of our coastal cities will be flooded, the basic outline of our world will be changed, and torrential rains will present their own challenges. But this is not the first time that people have had to cope with threatening waters, because sea levels have been rising for thousands of years, ever since the end of the last Ice Age.

On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these communities, sea level rise isn’t a distant, abstract fear: it’s happening now and it’s threatening their way of life. In The Rising Sea, Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young warn that many other coastal areas may be close behind.

In Making the Turn, PGA professional Nick Biondi distills over 20 years of extensive golf knowledge, curating the wisdom of some of the world's most renowned instructors. Drawing inspiration from Harvey Penick's iconic teachings, this audiobook serves as an invaluable resource for both amateur and professional golfers striving to discover their unique golfing identity.

**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, the Axiom Book Awards Gold Medal for Business History, and the 2024 Taste Canada Culinary Narrative Award Shortlisted for the 2024 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize...

THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award Winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner of the 2023 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Paradigm...