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Speaking to experts in fields as diverse as oil production and ecology, and visiting the places that have escaped recent human activity to discover how they have adapted to life without us, Alan Weisman paints an intriguing picture of the future of Earth. Exploring key concerns of our time, this absorbing thought experiment reveals a powerful - and surprising - picture of our planet's future.

In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed first-hand many of the major scientific events of Earth's history. Merlin's friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time - da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein and Hubble.

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.

Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet, and makes the case that it is one of our most essential—and endangered—wonders. For centuries, Himalaya has captivated an illustrious succession of admirers, from explorers, surveyors and sportsmen, to botanists and zoologists, ethnologists and geologists, missionaries and mountaineers.

Discover the key theories and milestone developments in the field of geography – the study of Earth’s diverse landscapes and climates, and the ways in which we have interacted with them through history and across the world. Applying the series’ accessible approach to the subject, The...

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully...

4,6 miljardia vuotta yhdessä äänisarjassa. Maapallon synnystä T. rexin viimeiseen päivään ja siitä eteenpäin lintuihin — dinosauruksiin, jotka elävät yhä pihallasi. Mukana vuoden 2026 tuoreimmat löydöt: uusi Spinosaurus, ontot ihopiikit, parkkipaikan alta paljastunut Diplodocus. Tieteellisesti tarkka, tarinallisesti vetävä. Kuuntele DinojenMaailman äänisarjan ensimmäinen kausi — ja löydä lisää osoitteesta https://dinojenmaailma.fi.#dinosaurukset #historia #paleontologia #maapallonhistoria #fossiilit #evoluutio #esihistoria #luonnonhistoria #dinosauruksetsuomeksi

Your weekly intelligence briefing on California groundwater. We attend 100+ board meetings so you don't have to. Every week, we break down the must-know decisions, trends of the valley, fee changes, water supply updates, and policy shifts from GSAs and water districts across the Central Valley and beyond. Produced by WaterOne.ai.

Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close encounter with their immense power, perhaps the most feared. But do we understand viruses? Possibly the most enigmatic of living things, they are sometimes not considered a life form at all...

Strictly Geothermal is the Official Podcast of the National Geothermal Centre. We're spreading the word about the huge potential for Geothermal energy in the UK.

Es ist der älteste künstlich geschaffene Farbton der Welt: Ägyptischblau.Im Jahr 3.200 v.Chr., noch vor der Blütezeit der Pharaonen, wurde er als Alternative zum seltenen und teuren Lapislazuli hergestellt. 5.000 Jahre später entdecken Wissenschaftler bislang völlig unbekannte Eigenschaften des alten Farbpigments.Seit 20 Jahren hält Ägyptischblau nun die Forscherwelt in Atem, weil sich immer wieder neue Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in moderner Spitzentechnologie eröffnen.Ein Farbton als Brückenschlag zwischen Antike und Moderne. Der Podcast "Ägyptischblau - die Farbe der Götter" ...

Cada tipo de roca contiene una historia que se entrelaza con la nuestra, moldeando la vida de la Tierra y la de sus habitantes de forma invisible y poderosa. La Tierra se ha reinventado a sí misma durante más de cuatro mil millones de años, y las rocas han custodiado el registro de toda su...

When is the last time you ran your hands through the tumult of wild grass flowers? Or stopped to watch a firefly? In a warming, hostile world, how do we find purpose? Perhaps we can start with noticing the bird outside one's window? In her new book, Wild Capital, acclaimed nature writer Neha...

The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists. These 36 lectures tell the all-embracing story of life on Earth - its origins, extinctions, and evolutions - in a manner that assumes no background in science. At half an hour per lecture, you’ll cover the entire 4.54-billion-year history of Earth in 18 hours, averaging 70,000 years per second!

Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have been in existence for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than 50 times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths?

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century?

ବିଶ୍ୱର ପ୍ରମୁଖ ପ୍ରାଚୀନ ସଭ୍ୟତା ବିଷୟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କୁ ପରିଚିତ ଓ ଶିକ୍ଷିତ କରିବା ଦିଗରେ ବିଶିଷ୍ଟ ପ୍ରାବନ୍ଧିକ ଶରତ କୁମାର...

- जगविख्यात विश्वरचनाशास्त्रज्ञ आणि द ब्रीफ हिस्ट्री ऑफ टाइम या लोकप्रिय पुस्तकाचे बेस्टसेलिंग लेखक स्टीफन...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Human Planet, A Pelican Book, by Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, read by Roy McMillan. Meteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us...

'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors . . . In this beautifully written . . . terrific book, he tells the extraordinary story of how mammals came to be and makes the case for them as creatures who...