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Biodiversity and Human Health
Experts on the global environment and biomedicine explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological diversity and its deleterious effects on the spread of human …
The Old Reliable: The Story of the Manhattan Life
Lomborg Deception
A compelling exposé of the highly problematic scholarship of Bjørn Lomborg, the world’s leading global warming skeptic In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic …
Costa Rican Ecosystems
In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic Costa Rican Natural History, research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, …
Extinction in Our Times
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …
Sources and Methods in African History
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in …
Global Warming and Biological Diversity
The biological effects of global warming should be of concern to all thinking individuals, for warming could cause profound disruption of natural ecosystems and could threaten many …
Climate Change and Biodiversity
Leading researchers discuss what is now known about the effects of climate change on the natural world. They examine recent trends in and projections about climate change; ways …
Biodiversity and Human Health
The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human …
Saving a Million Species
The research paper "e;Extinction Risk from Climate Change"e; published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that …
Right Relationship
“We are all stewards of the earth, but often lack specific information and advice on what we can do . . . [This] provides a wonderful guide for all of us.” —President Jimmy Carter …
Lessons from Amazonia
Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more …