Bringing Back Our Freshwater Lakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bringing Back Our Freshwater Lakes write by Lisa J. Amstutz. This book was released on 2018. Bringing Back Our Freshwater Lakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains some of the ways freshwater lakes are in danger, and shares the ways people are combating overfishing, pollution, and climate change.
The Great Lakes Water Wars
The Great Lakes Water Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Lakes Water Wars write by Peter Annin. This book was released on 2009-08-25. The Great Lakes Water Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death and Life of the Great Lakes write by Dan Egan. This book was released on 2017-03-07. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
The Lakes Handbook
The Lakes Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lakes Handbook write by Patrick O'Sullivan. This book was released on 2008-04-15. The Lakes Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Continuing concern about water supply and quality, ecosystem sustainability and restoration demands that the modern approach to the management of lakes and reservoirs should be based on a sound understanding of the application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes. The Lakes Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the application of ecologically sound approaches, methods and tools using experience gained around the world for an understanding of lakes and their management. Volume one of the Handbook addresses the physical and biological aspects of lakes pertinent to lake management, emphasising those aspects particularly relevant to large, still bodies of water. Volume two then considers lake management, with particular emphasis on sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation. This handbook will be invaluable to ecologists, environmental scientists, physical geographers and hydrologists involved in limnological research, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students looking for authoritative reviews of the key areas of limnological study.
Lakes
Lakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lakes write by John Richard Saylor. This book was released on 2022-06-07. Lakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Lakes is my favorite kind of natural history: meticulously researched, timely, comprehensive, and written with imagination and verve.”—Jerry Dennis, author of The Living Great Lakes Lakes might be the most misunderstood bodies of water on earth. And while they may seem commonplace, without lakes our world would never be the same. In this revealing look at these lifegiving treasures, John Richard Saylor shows us just how deep our connection to still waters run. Lakes is an illuminating tour through the most fascinating lakes around the world. Whether it’s Lake Vostok, located more than two miles beneath the surface of Antarctica, whose water was last exposed to the atmosphere perhaps a million years ago; Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the world’s deepest and oldest lake formed by a rift in the earth’s crust; or Lake Nyos, the so-called Killer Lake that exploded in 1986, resulting in hundreds of deaths, Saylor reveals to us the wonder that exists in lakes found throughout the world. Along the way we learn all the many forms that lakes take—how they come to be and how they feed and support ecosystems—and what happens when lakes vanish.
