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Pub. Date
2020
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I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. 'A Life on Our Planet' is my witness statement, and my...
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Pub. Date
2023
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There are stories in all our discarded things: who made them, what they meant to a person before they were thrown away. In the end, it all ends up in the same place - the endless ingenuity of humanity in one filthy, fascinating mass. When we throw things 'away', what does that actually mean? Where does it go, and who deals with it when it gets there? In 'Wasteland', award-winning journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on an eye-opening journey...
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Icon Books
Pub. Date
2021
Description
You'll do it 20,000 times a day. You assume all this air is clean; it's the very breath of life. But in Delhi, the toxic smog is as bad for you as smoking 50 cigarettes a day. Even a few days in Paris, London or Rome is equivalent to two or three cigarettes. Air pollution is implicated in six of the top ten causes of death worldwide, including lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and dementia. 'Breathless' gives us clear facts about air pollution in...
7) Go green!
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Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Explores ways we can reduce our our impact on the environment by reducing, reusing and recycling things that we use and eat.
9) Pollution
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Publisher
Hungry Tomato Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
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Looks at the different causes of pollution, how it affects the environment and how we can help to fix the issue.
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Ammonite Press
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The world's climate is changing, and it's affecting the planet. The destruction of natural habitats and the rise in pollution are just some of the issues we're all facing today. If you're someone who cares for nature and is worried about the environment, you might be wondering what you can do to help. Filled with useful information, inspiring articles, and sustainable ideas and projects, this Eco handbook gives you a wide range of ways to make a positive...
11) Future energy
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Publisher
Hungry Tomato Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Looks at various types of renewable energy, why we need it and how it could shape the future.
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Straightforward Co Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This updated edition deals with the practical arrangements necessary after a death. Factual yet sympathetic, the guide is comprehensive and is suitable for anyone who wishes to gain knowledge of this area. The following areas are covered in detail: Death and the registration of death; The role of the coroner after a bereavement; Organising a funeral; Different funerals - different faiths; Events after the funeral; Dealing with the dead persons estate....
16) Our world
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Oxford U P
Pub. Date
2022
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Looks at our place in the world and how to protect our planet, and introduces words to help children understand and talk about it.
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Publisher
Witness Books
Pub. Date
2021
Description
533 days in the life of a great European writer. Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to the island of Menorca, 'the island of the wind', and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over with native plants and fauna, that the 533 days of writing take place. The product is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates, but...