global environmental change

Discusses the causes of climate change due to the use of fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect, and deforestation, and covers global warming, wind patterns, melting ice, flooding, rising sea levels, alternative energy, and choices one can make to help reverse negative effects.

The author explains why he believes efforts to protect Earth's environment are not succeeding, offers a critique of what he sees as a failure of U.S. leadership in the international community, and describes eight steps he believes can lead to a sustainable future.

Explores how humans are affecting the world's weather patterns and argues that if changes are not made, weather events will become more catastrophic in the future.

Explains the causes and consequences of climate change; describing the elements that make up a climate, climates throughout the world, weather cycles, and ecosystems; and discussing the greenhouse effect, acid rain, melting ice, and related topics.

Examines the causes and effects of ice ages throughout history, tracing the development of scientific ideas about ice ages and profiling the lives of men and women who have contributed to the understanding of why and how ice ages happen.

Examines the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future.