These tales of adventure and research in remote and remarkable corners of the earth investigate a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science behind exactly what a couple of degrees of warming mean. Addressed are glacier melt, rising seas, extreme weather, ocean currents, changing ecosystems, bushfires, and dying forests.
Follow Pip and Pete along their adventures saving wildlife through friendship, fun and heroic acts of conservation!
Dive into the world of Australian sharks - from the enormous whale shark and the sharp-toothed great white, to the lesser-known Port Jackson shark and tassled wobbegong. Get ready to dive in!
Featuring detailed illustrations of the whales and dolphins that call Australia home.
Meet Australia’s most famous dinosaur species, and learn about the science behind palaeontology – from how we define dinosaurs, to how we’ve started learning what colour they might have been!
Dinosaurs couldn’t adapt fast enough to changes in atmosphere and climate. This illustrated book looks at the speed of climate change, asking if Homo sapiens have time to cope better.
The current industrial food system comes at a tremendous economic cost. Dealing with malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation costs trillions of dollars, but because that price tag does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often ignored by economists and policymakers.
A collection of essays, artworks and poetry by a range of First Nations and religiously inspired peace and environmental activists. It represents a call to recognise the deep implication of cultures of war and climate crisis.
Authoritative yet accessible, the definitive undergraduate text on Russian geography and culture has now been thoroughly revised with the latest data and hot topics, such as the political crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol.
The toolkit you need to nurture yourself and the environment that nurtures you. Unless we look after ourselves, each other and the natural world in a balanced and harmonious manner we will continue to go from crisis to crisis. The tips in this book will help you to reduce your environmental footprint and enjoy a healthier and more satisfying life.
Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet.
An anthology of essays bringing together renowned Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian thinkers, scientists, activists and artists responding to the Black Summer of 2019-20. Their diverse voices confront the experience and ‘aftermath of our bushfires’ apocalypse with hope and vision.
Australia is the most urbanised nation on earth and yet we share our built environment with a cavalcade of amazing native creatures. This book examines some of the issues around our complex relationship with nature.
Facing the challenges of climate change involves all of us. This book offers children truth without despair, hope without deception, and a road map to a better future.
This stimulating account of Antarctica’s past and present explains the great wilderness of Antarctica, and demonstrates why we must preserve it at all costs.
From the creators of CAMPS 10 and PARKS 5, Australias favourite RV travel guides, the Camps Australia Wide Community Cookbook is full of tried and true recipes generously provided by the CAMPS community. You’ll find quirky recipes in here, some named for the chef, others for the location! Embrace the ethos of camp cooking.
As the most comprehensive caravan and tourist park guide in Australia, the new Caravan Parks Australia Wide 5th edition is a must-have travelling companion. Finding a park that meets your needs has never been easier with this full-colour, updated guide to 2240+ caravan/tourist parks, with 1830+ of these being PET friendly.
The honeybee is an amazing creature, and an invaluable member of our life-sustaining ecosystem. Yet it is currently in danger, and recent health problems such as mites and diseases have plagued the bee population. This book presents a fascinating overview of all aspects of beekeeping which relate to the health of the bee.
A comprehensive and gripping account of the disaster that devastated New Guinea in 1998, destroying towns and villages, and taking a shocking death toll. Professor Hugh Davies was there, and in this book he explains in harrowing detail the events of the earthquake and tsunami, and the recovery effort that followed. It also describes the history ......
Prior to the end of World War I, President Wilson gathered a group of expert geographers, historians, economists, and political scientists – The Inquiry – to make plans for the coming peace conference.
Prior to the end of World War I, President Wilson gathered a group of expert geographers, historians, economists, and political scientists - The Inquiry - to make plans for the coming peace conference.
There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and chemical pollution all threaten our future unless we act.