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    The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future. Our world has ended five times: It has been broiled, frozen, poison gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth's past dead ends, and in the process offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the 21st century have analogs in these five extinctions. Using the visible clues these devastations have left behind in the fossil record, The Ends of the World takes us inside "scenes of the crime", from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell the story of each extinction. Brannen examines the fossil record - which is rife with creatures like dragonflies the size of sea gulls and guillotine-mouthed fish - and introduces us to the researchers on the front lines who, using the forensic tools of modern science, are piecing together what really happened at the crime scenes of the Earth's biggest whodunits. Part road trip, part history, and part cautionary tale, The Ends of the World takes us on a tour of the ways that our planet has clawed itself back from the grave and casts our future in a completely new light. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006077/bk_harp_006077_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
    American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene ab 117.49 € als Taschenbuch: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,
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    Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 601min
    Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history - and our part in it - is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history. Inspired by a passion for the lost Pleistocene giants, some scientists advocate bringing elephants and cheetahs to the Great Plains as stand-ins for their extinct native brethren. By reintroducing big browsers and carnivores to North America, they argue, we could rescue some of the planet's most endangered animals while restoring healthy prairie ecosystems. Critics, including biologists enmeshed in the struggle to restore native species like the gray wolf and the bison, see the proposal as a dangerous distraction from more realistic and legitimate conservation efforts. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence, Once and Future Giants examines the extent of human influence on megafauna extinctions, past and present, and explores innovative conservation efforts around the globe. The key to modern-day conservation, Levy suggests, may lie fossilized right under our feet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tamara Marston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014040/bk_adbl_014040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Immortality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1589min
    Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world's eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by these extinctions. Evolution is operating in ways no one could have expected, and environmental damage may be the catalyst. Once discovered, this knowledge changes everything... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020036/bk_adbl_020036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Quarterly Essay 48: After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 153min
    When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world's riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So how are we doing? In Quarterly Essay 48 Tim Flannery says: we're often failing nature. In the clash between money and conservation, money usually wins. State governments have begun allowing mining and other incursions into national parks. A new wave of extinctions is taking place. Politically, conservationists and conservatives are at odds. But why? Surely conservatives and conservationists should be able to find common cause when it comes to preserving our natural heritage? And given that we have never known more about how to protect biodiversity, shouldn't it be possible to halt the march of extinctions? This essay is both a wake-up call to the consequences of unrestrained development, and an examination of the underlying thinking - the view of the natural world that sees it as something either to be put to use or traded off. By contrast, Flannery asks, how might we best understand, conserve and co-exist with the natural world? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Flannery. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001545/bk_boli_001545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities
    Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities ab 37.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Causes of Mass Extinctions. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Mathematik,
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    Vanishing Life
    Vanishing Life ab 14.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Mystery of Mass Extinctions. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    After They're Gone
    After They're Gone ab 7.99 € als epub eBook: Extinctions Past Present and Future. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Wissenschaften allgemein,
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    Ghost of the Gods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1257min
    Two years after the devastation of mass human extinctions in kill zones, mankind is still grasping for survival. An oppressive union of government and big business controls an exhausted America, which is divided between walled-in Protectorates and the unpoliced Outlands. Against this chaotic backdrop, paleobiologist and genetic researcher Mark Freedman and policewoman Sarah Mayfair continue their evolution into transhumansnanotech hybrids with a connection to the god machine, the artificial intelligence that caused the recent massacres, in an effort to derail the destruction of the Earth's biosphere. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020037/bk_adbl_020037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Homeland and Other Stories, Hörbuch, Digital, 179min
    Barbara Kingsolver has written these five short stories with the same wit and sensitivity that characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees. Spreading her characters over a variety of colorful landscapes, she tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, her distinctive voice, at times comic, but often heartrending, rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. This collection includes: "Homeland" "Blueprints" "Quality Time" "Extinctions" "Rose-Johnny" Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000095/bk_harp_000095_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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