Showing results for "Giant" in Biological Sciences

Amanda Lewis was an overachieving, burned-out book editor most familiar with trees as dead blocks of paper. A dedicated "indoorswoman," she could barely tell a birch from a beech. But that didn't stop her from pledging to visit all of the biggest trees in British Columbia, a Canadian province known for its rugged terrain and gigantic trees.

An astonishing transformation over the last 20,000 years has seen our planet changed from a frigid wasteland into the temperate world within which our civilization has grown and thrived. This dynamic episode in our planet's history, right at the close of the Ice Age, saw not only a huge temperature hike but also the Earth's crust bouncing and bending in response to the melting of the great ice sheets and the filling of the ocean basins - dramatic geophysical events that triggered earthquakes, spawned tsunamis, and provoked a series of eruptions from the world's volcanoes.

High in the mountainous rain forests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, geographer Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures.

In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history - and our part in it - is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history.

More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these animals, their comings and goings, and what befell them at the beginning of the modern era and the arrival of humans.

General Sherman: The Giant Sequoia of Sequoia National Park The General Sherman tree, located in Sequoia National Park, California, is not just any tree; it is the largest living single-stem tree on Earth by volume. This giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is a living testament to nature's grandeur and resilience, standing tall for over two millennia. Named after the American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, this tree has witnessed significant historical and environmental changes. This biography delves into the history, significance, current state, and future threats to this ...

The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For 60 years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes - the giant tortoises - as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution.

بودكاست نبات هو أول بودكاست يتحدث عن النباتات المنزلية باللغة العربية.نتحدث في بودكاست نبات عن طرق العناية بالنباتات المنزلية المختلفة ونسرد في كل حلقة تجارب موثقة علمياً وقصص تكشف لنا تأثير النباتات والأشجار على الإنسان.بودكاست نبات موجود لنتعلم سوياً عن عالم النباتات الممتع ونتعرف على أسراره. Podcast Nabat is the first botany-focused Arabic podcast,...