Earth Sciences

Since the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872–1876, our vision of the ocean has changed completely. We now understand that it plays a key role in bio...

Water is one of the most precious and basic needs of life for all living beings, and a precious national asset. Without it, the existence of life c...

APPLIED WATER SCIENCE VOLUME 2 The second volume in a new two-volume set on applied water science, this book provides understanding, occurrence, id...

This report contains the findings from a rapid biological assessment of the Grensgebergte and Kasikasima mountains of southeastern Suriname. Surina...

Nearly seven billion people are collectively such a potent force that their influence on the global environment has begun to rival that of Mother N...

Our oceans are in an ecological crisis due to their contamination with millions of tons of toxic microplastic particles. In just a few years, the v...

Combining laboratory experience with research and policy developments, this book provides an insight into the historical background of marine monit...

One of the greatest challenges facing atmospheric science instructors is helping students link theoretical and mathematical concepts to the real at...

At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still hold...

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technolog...

This is the untold story of the remarkable scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Guy Stewart Callendar discovered ...

In February 2016, a multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and huma...

The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric compo...

The microscopic examination of fossilized bone tissue is a sophisticated and increasingly important analytical tool for understanding the life hist...

"Alien Ocean" immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the micros...

With the recent catastrophe in Indonesia, the topic of tsunamis could not be more timely. This book, volume fifteen in a distinguished series surve...

Looking up at mountains, people now see bare, dark rock where white snow and ice once stood - dramatic evidence of the accelerating pace of glacier...

With its active fault systems, complex landforms, and myriad natural habitats, southern California boasts a rich and dynamic geologic environment. ...

'Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting', writes Doug Macdougall. 'It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper.' In "Na...

Rivers and streams around the world that once flowed wild and unchecked are rapidly disappearing into dams or being channelized between concrete ba...

Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never bef...

Modern geologists, Walter Alvarez among them, showed in the last decades of the twentieth century that the history of our planet has witnessed even...

An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenge...

Providing an appealing chronology of "all things dinosaur," this book covers these ancient creatures' roles and surprising importance in science, r...

Is the climate really becoming more extreme as a result of climate change? We often hear on the news that the day was the hottest, coldest, wettest...

How much has human history been influenced by the earth and its processes? This volume in the Science 101 series describes how both slow changes an...

Everyone is familiar with the dodo and the wooly mammoth, but how many people have heard of the scimitar cat and the Falkland Island fox? Extinct A...

Understanding the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements is critical for success in the chemistry classroom and laboratory. In today's classroom, stud...

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presid...

Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to th...

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gr...

The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups c...