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One of our most anticipated titles for Spring, Changing Planet, Changing Health is an eye-opening book that looks at the ways climate change is altering patterns of disease. It’s scary—and pressing—stuff. Before reading this book, I had no idea that since 1976, the planet has given rise to 40 new diseases. Or that every year, [more...]  By Gary Braasch, © June 18, 2009. Global climate change impacts across the United States are spelled out with renewed authority in a report released June 16 by the federal government. It marks the strongest and clearest statement from Washington that global warming’s effects are being felt over broad regions of the nation. [more...] James Lawrence Powell is Executive Director of the National Physical Science Consortium at the University of Southern California and is author of Grand Canyon: Solving Earth’s Grandest Puzzle, among other books. Powell’s latest book, Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, was published by UC Press in November [more...] A professional nature photographer for 30 years, Gary Braasch has published his work in Life, Time, Discover, and other prominent magazines and in several books. In 2006 he received the prestigious Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra Club. UC Press recently published Braasch’s latest book, Earth under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World, [more...] |
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