Earth Sciences

A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave you breathless. With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air q...

A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wild...

Forest soils are the foundation of the entire forest ecosystem and complex, long-term interactions between trees, soil animals, and the microbial c...

A San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerRead the rocks as only a geologist can, with this deep drill-down into Oaklands geological history and its impa...

This open access book documents the use of radiogenic and stable isotopes to study mineral deposits from a global to the deposit scale. It includes...

This open access book documents the use of radiogenic and stable isotopes to study mineral deposits from a global to the deposit scale. It includes...

For introductory-level, undergraduate courses in natural resource conservation, natural resource management, environmental science, and environment...

Succulents have become some of the most popular houseplants, and with good reason: theyre easy to growmost of the time. But what happens when a pla...

This book provides a new look at the climatic history of the last 2.6 million years during the ice age, a time of extreme climatic fluctuations tha...

A reference volume on the geology of North Africa, this volume deals with Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. In great detail the geology, ...

Menard begins with the leading hypotheses (such as that the earth expands) and the supporting evidence for each. He traces the crucial work of the ...

Balanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that reso...

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on conservation tillage in agriculture.The first chapter reviews types of tillage an...

This book provides an informative global perspective on soilless culture systems (SCS) around the worldthe book promises to bring together the curr...

Understanding and measuring the different dimensions of soil health is key to achieving regenerative agriculture. There has been a wealth of resear...

How can paleontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain...

We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to r...