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Explores the rise and continuing problem of climate change and why it seems to be taking so long for world governments to enact effective change. Offers a range of possible solutions, including food and agricultural solutions, ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and simply inventing new things that help us adapt better to a changing climate. Includes photographs and lists of further resources online.
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Explores how climate change is creating extreme weather in the form of bigger and more destructive storms, and examines the effects of superstorms. Explains how meteorologists track and study the trends of weather patterns. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a glossary, and additional resources.
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Few places on the planet are immune to wildfires as part of natural forest life cycles. This program explores the phenomenon, from the outbreaks that hit Australia, California, and Southern Europe each summer, to the fires that devour the humid rainforests of the Amazon and Indonesia, causing havoc and creating environmental disaster. Witness fire fighters facing extreme danger, battling mighty walls of flame, and the techniques they use to extinguish...
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Weather is uncontrollable. Over time we have learned to live with storms, heat waves, droughts, and prolonged periods of extreme cold. As this documentary explains, they are all examples of extreme or unusual weather-nature at its deadliest and most destructive. In March 1993, the US Eastern Seaboard was hit with a massive snow storm that became known as the Storm of the Century. Two years later, Chicago was caught up in a five-day nightmare of heat...
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The climate in a region affects all aspects of life. This book looks at desert climates. It explores the characteristics of the land and weather in regions with desert climates, and how plants, animals, and people have adapted to life in deserts. The effects of climate change and other developments are also covered.
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Tornadoes are one of nature's deadliest forces, unmatched in fury, speed and destructive power. Over the centuries, tornadoes have wrought destruction on a huge scale and cost a great many lives. This program takes a look at some of the most devastating twister storms to hit the planet in the last 100 years. From the world's worst twister (which struck Daultipur in Bangladesh in 1989), to the most expensive tornado in history (the 1999 Oklahoma Tornado...
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Weather is packed with up-to-the-minute information about what happens and why. Eyewitness accounts from around the globe tell you how it really feels to get caught in the world's worst weather.
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Climate influences the features of the landscape, what farmers can grow, where people live, and the type of houses they build. But what happens when the climate changes abruptly and dramatically, not as part of a natural process of change but because of human activity? The result is more frequent and stronger extreme weather events such as heat waves, storms, torrential rain, raging winds, and hurricanes. This fascinating book uses case studies to...
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Scope and content: Reports and data compiled about climate and weather in Tennessee and Nashville. Statewide subjects include rainfall and current water resources in Tennessee in Oct. 1974; a report on the climate of the state in Feb. 1960, including freeze data, mean temperature and precipitation, norms, means and extremes of temperature, precipitation, humidity, and wind, and a map of the frequency of damage from tropical storms from 1901-1955....