| Database: |
IUP Libraries |
| Main Author: |
Officer, Charles B. |
| Title: |
When the planet rages : natural disasters, global warming, and the future of the earth / Charles Officer, Jake Page. |
| Edition: |
Rev. and updated ed. |
| Publication: |
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009. |
| Description: |
xvii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Rev. ed. of : Tales of the earth. New York : Oxford University Press, c1993. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Charles Officer and Jake Page describe some of the great events of environmental history, from calamities such as the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (the greatest in recorded history) and the centuries-long cycles of ice ages, to recent man-made disasters such as Chernobyl, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Officer and Page provide discussions of meteorites and comets; of the demise of mammoths, mastodons, and dinosaurs; and of great floods that have swept the earth. But they also show that human activity can make trouble for nature, discussing the depletion of natural resources (we burn coal and oil at millions of times their natural rate of production), air pollution in Los Angeles and London (where the Killer Smog of 1952 caused the death of some four thousand people), and the pollution of major waterways, like the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie."--BOOK JACKET. |
| ISBN : |
9780195377019 (pbk.) |
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019537701X (pbk.) |
| Subject(s): |
Environmental degradation. |
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Nature Effect of human beings on. |
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Earth. |
| Other Headings: |
Page, Jake. |
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Officer, Charles B. Tales of the earth. |
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| Location: |
Stapleton Library |
| Call Number: |
QB631 .O34 2009 |
| Number of Items: |
1 |
| Status: |
Not Checked Out |
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