The Quaternary covers the last 2.5 million years in Earth's history. This unique period is well known for a record of oscillating climatic paramete...

Global climate change is one of the nation's most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activities are producing increasingly large quanti...

Those who are wealthy have some degree of control over their climate. When it is hot, they can cool themselves down with air conditioners. Likewise...

On 25 June 2013, President Obama announced a national plan to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHG), as well as...

This book reports on abrupt climate change which is defined as a large scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or le...

Rise & Decline of Public Interest in Global Warming - Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Environmental Problems

The agriculture sector is a source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which many scientists agree are contributing to observed climate change. Agri...

Congress is considering proposals for market-based programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Many proposals involve creating a cap-and-trade prog...

For over a century, Experimental Forests and Ranges (EFRs) have provided critical science on the ecosystems and management activities of the Nation...

This book is an overview of the science and policy implications of climate change. Almost all scientists agree that the Earth's climate is changing...

On April 16, 2007, an early spring storm broke through Cape Cod's barrier beach. Overnight, the citizens of Chatham had to contend with as much sea...

American leadership and ingenuity are central to solving the climate crisis. With the devastating health and economic consequences of climate chang...

With the state of global ice constantly in the news, one mountain journalist examines Canadian glaciers to uncover their secrets and their future.F...

For two decades, scientists have been warning that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons (bromine-containing fluorocarbons) may deplete the stratos...

The ever-increasing human population and high demand for natural resources have resulted in declining species and ecosystems that justify the explo...

Chapter 1 is focused on oceans and the coastal communities that depend on them. 40 percent of the United States is living in coastal shoreline coun...

The dramatic rise of the Tibetan Plateau's land surface exerts a particular thermal and mechanical force on air flows above and surrounding this hi...

As defined in this book, an ecological threshold is the point at which there is an abrupt change in an ecosystem quality, property, or phenomenon, ...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), also called by other names including Indigenous Knowledge or Native Science, refers to the evolving knowled...

This book summarises eight years of research, evaluation, and hands-on experience in developing Brøset as a future carbon-neutral settlement. The p...