global environmental change

Draws from global modeling research, analytical data, and travels throughout the Arctic Rim to provide an informed speculation on what the world will be like in 2050, predicting that the United States and seven other countries will become increasingly prosperous, powerful, and politically stable, while those closer to the equator will suffer water shortages, increased energy costs, coastal flooding, and other dilemmas.

Explains climate change, its implications for the future, and what we can, and cannot, do to avoid further change.

The author provides a chronicle of his travels to nineteen countries in an attempt to understand the complex environmental problems of each nation, and their effects on the people who must deal with them on a daily basis.

Examines research and projections about climate change to predict how global warming may affect various parts of the world if nothing is done to stop it.

A documentary on the threats to the world's environment, filmed in thirteen countries.

Examines the causes of and possible solutions to what the author feels are the twenty most pressing problems being caused by our increasingly crowded and interconnected world.

Presents potential strategies for dealing with domestic and global environmental problems including global warming and pollution.

Presents discussions about ways in which Earth is at risk and solutions for how people can preserve the planet. Discusses the planet's ecosystem, economics, and environmental disasters.

Contains over 130 satellite photographs that depict the natural foundations and process of global change, and features essays which explain some of the many natural and man-made instruments of environmental change, including thermal currents, plate tectonics, earthquakes, storms, and air pollution.