Jorden: naturhistorie: for alment interesserede læsere

Growing up in the Midwest, Lori Harrington's father taught her to enjoy the great outdoors. Walks along the Illinois River and drives in the countryside as well as vacations all across this country, she learned to appreciate the beauty of nature from her dad. At one point in her early adult years, her father told her she needed to go for a hike and get some of God's Green Medicine to clear her mind and refresh her perspective. This term became a running theme in their relationship and they often referenced getting a 'daily dose of God's Green Medicine.'After the passing of Lori's father, she pulled out boxes of letters from him to revisit memories and realized how the relationship she had with her father affected her life. Having tossed the idea around of making their reference of God's Green Medicine into something more tangible, she decided it was time to share it with others.The basis of Green Medicine is God created the earth and nature. We are surrounded by God in His Creation. Through good and bad times, struggles in life and relationships, God is all around us. But this book is also about the impact a parent can have in their child's life. Lori weaves together excerpts from her father's letters with incidents of family and friends and her photography. You are invited to journey through Lori's experiences with life, relationships, and nature and, if you like, journal your own Green Medicine encounters.

Water makes the river what and where it is. All life needs water. People often talk about the earth's life being carbon-based (mostly). True, but even more it is water-based! Most life forms are composed of at least 80% water. In addition, aquatic plants and animals live part or all of their lives within, on, or by the water. Long-term, of course, there must be change with climate change, for example, when most of Britain was covered by ice some 10,000 years ago, the vegetation under that ice was not what is there today. No vegetation is therefore, in the exact sense, stable. But what about lesser time periods-5, 15, 50, 150 years ago? For how long has the vegetation remained stable? Unfortunately there is a lack of recorded history so this small book will summarize some of what is available, but its main aim is to inform, encourage, and pave the way for new interest. It is worth noting that THE HABITAT CHOOSES THE SPECIES. It is easy to think the plant chooses, in reality the plant's choice is very limited. This book is a demonstration, for students and naturalists alike, of changes and the sensitivity of river communities to their environment, and indeed of the speed of their response.

The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle.

In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State that had been purchased by his Russian Jewish Communist grandparents as a buffer against what they felt was a hostile world. For Sax, in the years following, the woodland came to represent a link with those who lived and had lived there, including Native Americans, settlers, bears, deer, turtles, and migrating birds. In this personal and eloquent account, Sax explores the meanings and cultural history of forests from prehistory to the present, taking in Gilgamesh, Virgil, Dante, the Gawain poet, medieval alchemists, the Brothers Grimm, the Hudson River painters, Latin American folklore, contemporary African novelists and much more. Combining lyricism with contemporary scholarship, this book opens new emotional, intellectual, and environmental perspectives on the storied history of the forest.

Experience Life Among the World's Northernmost PeopleThroughout history, few cultures have seemed more mysterious than the native hunter-gatherer societies of the far north. These nomadic people often thrived in unforgiving conditions on frozen, treeless terrain above the Arctic Circle, where mere survival was an everyday challenge. Known among themselves simply as the People, the Inuit men and women that Europeans called "Eskimos" existed for centuries in harmony with the unforgiving natural world around them; when times were good they prospered on natural bounties, and when times were bad they overcame the bleakest of conditions just to make it through. Prior to their contact with many other Europeans in the early twentieth century, Danish explorer Peter Freuchen befriended and lived among the Inuit in Greenland. He studied their language and ways of life firsthand, eventually marrying and having children with an Inuit woman there. Since they were a people with no written language, Freuchen's captivating observations offered the rest of the world some of the earliest eyewitness accounts of "Eskimo" lifestyle. Before his account was published, Western writers often romanticized the life of the Inuit; where others pictured a near-mythological life of hardship in an inhospitable landscape of icy bleakness, Freuchen revealed the tapestry of a rich and storied culture set in a world of raw beauty. Examining pre-westernized Inuit societies in Greenland, northern Canada, and Alaska, Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos is a rare and uniquely personal portrait of the indigenous people of the Arctic. Brimming with fascinating information, color, humor, and warmth, this classic chronicle of the everyday lives and customs of these resourceful communities and families offers a completely engaging immersion into a foreign land and an excellent introduction to the tenacious people living at the top of the world. This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1648372708).

Ny spændingsroman af finske Leena Krohn (Ikke før solnedgang m.fl.)Meteorologen Leena Lind finder en mærkelig genstand på en ø, en slags fløjte. Dens baggrund kender hun ikke, men på godt og især ondt lærer hun dens effekt at kende.Tordenfløjten er en roman om menneskets dybe drift efter at kunne kontrollere vejret, uanset om det er med magi eller teknologi – og uanset konsekvenserne ... for en seksårig pige eller for en skrøbelig global magtbalance.Johanna Sinisalo, dronningen af spekulativ fiktion, tegner i sin nye roman en elementært (i ordets egentligste forstand) spændende, men uhyggelig bue fra antikken til nutiden. Nøgleordet er fulgurit. Eller rettere – profit.Johanna Sinisalo (f. 1958) er ophavskvinde til et omfattende forfatterskab, i høj grad kendt for med stilistisk succes at bringe træk af SciFi og fantasy ind i mere litterær fiktion. Hun er oversat til mere end 20 sprog. På dansk er udkommet hendes Finlandia-prisvindende debutroman fra 2000 Ikke før solnedgang (2020); chili-romanen Solens kerne (2013, da. 2019); og den tidlige CliFi-roman Englenes blod (2011, da. 2021), sat i en nær fremtid, hvor økosystemerne bryder sammen pga. manglen på bier til bestøvning. Tre romaner der kan siges at have været profetiske i forhold til opgøret med såvel sexisme som antropocentrisme.

Life's context is uncertain environmental information, communication is its means, and genes are its tools. Evolution is its yield as continuous non-random self-referential cellular problem-solving.

KNOWLEDGE OF BASIC SURVIVAL PRINCIPLESKnowledge is the basis for almost every successful survival skill. You can get it from reading books, listening to the advice and stories of others, and watching the actions of others. However, the most important way to gain true knowledge of survival principles is trial and error with your own two hands. No method of learning takes the place of hands-on, personal experience. Your options in a survival scenario will ultimately depend on your understanding of basic survival principles that surround shelter, water, fire, and food.INNOVATIVE THINKINGI've often said that innovation is the most important survival skill. Innovation can be defined in survival as creatively using available resources to execute a plan formulated using pre-existing survival knowledge. At the end of the day, the application of survival principles is only limited by your ability to creatively use them.EXPLOITING AVAILABLE RESOURCESAvailable resources are anything natural or manmade, from leaves and sticks to trash bottles and windshield wipers. Everything is potentially a survival resource that you can exploit, with knowledge and creativity, to get what you need. In this book, we explore hundreds of everyday items that can be modified, repurposed, reused, reshaped, rebuilt, or recycled to meet some kind of basic human survival need.THREE THOUSAND FAILURESSome of the hacks featured in this book are tips and tricks I've absorbed throughout my lifelong study of survival; I learned them from other people and from watching others in the field. I've picked up all sorts of hacks from friends, family, students, and other survival enthusiasts. I'm always on the lookout for a fun, new, and creative survival hack.However, many of the following 200-plus survival hacks are also the result of more than 3,000 failed attempts. Some, such as the Make a Fire Pipe hack in Chapter 3, took more than 20 tries to get right. If I had quit working on a hack idea at the first failed attempt, this book would be about five pages long.The 200-plus hacks listed in the following pages are proven to work. I've successfully practiced them all. Each of them is an actionable lesson in survival; you can go into your backyard and practice them right now. Many can be executed in the comfort of your.home or garage, and certainly you can use them on your next camping trip.THE MORE YOU HACKAs you study, practice, and use these 200-plus hacks from everydayobjects, you're bound to learn more about survival principles and howto creatively meet basic survival needs. This knowledge will lead tonew "hack" ideas that I want to hear about! E-mail your hack ideas tocreek@creekstewart.com. Who knows, your hack could make it intothe next volume of Survival Hacks.

A photographic journey to all corners of the globe, full of panoramas of our natural world--highlighting the five most dominant hues of each photograph on a color bar placed above the image.

This book is based on a series of recorded conversations between the author and Nature Guardians of the region surrounding the River Nairn in northern Scotland. The author's primary conversation is with the deva (landscape angel) who oversees this area.These communications give voice to the spirit of Gaia, explaining the role of nature spirits who inhabit the etheric realm and their function in bringing life force to Earth. They elucidate the need for humanity's respect for Nature and for all peoples of the Earth including children. The deva speaks directly to humanity's evolving role in planetary survival.The messages of the book are universal and hopeful, addressing our relationship with the natural world and its subtle aspects, and how we can become good caretakers for our beautiful Earth.

GROSSFORMAT: 27,5 x 34 cm , 208 Seiten Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch - 160 herausragende Kunstwerke - der erste Bildband der kanadischen Künstlerin - Eine unvergleichliche Verbindung von Fotografie und dem Element Wasser - Eine faszinierende, der Zeit entrückte Bildsprache - Mit digitalem Zusatzcontent in der teNeues-App Ästhetische Farbfotografie unter Wasser, das ist das Thema dieses einzigartigen Bildbandes der kanadischen Künstlerin Barbara Cole. In ihrem ganz eigenen Stil spielt die Künstlerin mit Licht und Reflexionen und lässt dabei Bilder entstehen, die schwerelos und fast wie gemalt wirken.

Le livre "Gouvernance et gestion des aires protégées" est une compilation de textes originaux, d'études de cas et d'exemples du monde entier. La traduction de l'ouvrage est en cours et les chapitres traduits seront publiés progressivement, nous vous invitons donc à consulter le site régulièrement.

Experience Life Among the World's Northernmost PeopleThroughout history, few cultures have seemed more mysterious than the native hunter-gatherer societies of the far north. These nomadic people often thrived in unforgiving conditions on frozen, treeless terrain above the Arctic Circle, where mere survival was an everyday challenge. Known among themselves simply as the People, the Inuit men and women that Europeans called "Eskimos" existed for centuries in harmony with the unforgiving natural world around them; when times were good they prospered on natural bounties, and when times were bad they overcame the bleakest of conditions just to make it through. Prior to their contact with many other Europeans in the early twentieth century, Danish explorer Peter Freuchen befriended and lived among the Inuit in Greenland. He studied their language and ways of life firsthand, eventually marrying and having children with an Inuit woman there. Since they were a people with no written language, Freuchen's captivating observations offered the rest of the world some of the earliest eyewitness accounts of "Eskimo" lifestyle. Before his account was published, Western writers often romanticized the life of the Inuit; where others pictured a near-mythological life of hardship in an inhospitable landscape of icy bleakness, Freuchen revealed the tapestry of a rich and storied culture set in a world of raw beauty. Examining pre-westernized Inuit societies in Greenland, northern Canada, and Alaska, Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos is a rare and uniquely personal portrait of the indigenous people of the Arctic. Brimming with fascinating information, color, humor, and warmth, this classic chronicle of the everyday lives and customs of these resourceful communities and families offers a completely engaging immersion into a foreign land and an excellent introduction to the tenacious people living at the top of the world. This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1648372716).

The About the Book information is not available at this time.

From his earliest years, Lee Flandreau possessed a curiosity about animals and forests. He grew up on an Ohio farm where he took care of horses, cattle, and chickens, and collected snakes. His love for animals and wandering the woods would translate to travel in exotic places.After earning a degree in Earth Sciences from Miami University, which he attended on football and baseball scholarships, he spent his entire career with an industrial equipment manufacturer. The last twenty years, in charge of all international operations, he traveled throughout the industrial countries of the world. By 1990, the year this true story unfolded, he had taken seven safaris in Africa and loved them all. He has taken three more since. The Amazon and its vast unknowns also appealed to his sense of adventure. He found a friend with similar fascinations, and Bill and Lee researched a private river tour of Amazonia, to begin in Puerto Maldonado, Peru-a town they could find on few maps.But, once they arrived there, adventure quickly morphed into dread and doubts that they would ever again see civilization. Nothing they had expected when booking this trip materialized: The large, comfy boat described by the tour director turned out to be only a cramped, open peke-peke canoe with no space to store two-weeks' worth of supplies. Their jumping-off place had no electricity, no phones, no English-speaking people. Their recommended captain and guide spoke no language they could understand. In the midst of the jungle a week into the trip, the captain ignored Lee's demands to return to their starting place. Throughout it all, Lee's sense of humor made their dire dilemma seem almost comical. But it couldn't save them.Would they ever get back to Puerto Maldonado? Even if they did, would they ever find civilization when no roads existed and the airstrip gouged into the jungle offered no scheduled flights? Their most troubling question: Will we succumb to our fate, finding NO WAY OUT?

The author made four dozen short canoe trips on various rivers and streams in Maine during 2022, taking photographs and writing short texts about where he went and what he saw.

This is a continuation of my first book where I found more verses in the Bible where God uses the weather to judge the world.

"An introduction to the biodiversity of ancient lakes, explaining the surprising, often controversial findings ancient lake research is yielding about the formation and persistence of species"--

Season - Monsoons The book has the following authors - Juanna John Ali Hochfelder Maryann Holmes Daniel Lamboy John Haugh Justine Defever Tiffany Washington Frederick Livingston Tova Greene Sierra Madden Mahnour javed Ruth Towne Kory Vance Steven Herrera Gavin Bourke Crystal Barker Saheb Sk Thibault Jacquot-Paratte ellie laabs Swarnika Ahuja Charlotte Kehder Sydney Sheltz-Kempf TEJAS YADAV Rachel Greenmyer William David terry brinkman

A step by step guide on how to fly cross country from Chabre a mountain located west of Laragne Monteglin France.Every trigger point, convergence zones and valley systems are indicated, discussed and explained in this in-depth site guide for Chabre.With this book the goal is to help pilots discover Cross Country flying in mountains. Chabre is a great place to start, there are a lot of large landing options, almost no strong valley flow nearby, lower mountains with high average cloud base. It is a really safe place to learn, yet the weather systems can be quite complex here, which makes it a very interesting place to fly. To me that is quite a unique combination.

FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLISTThe story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they’re thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean’s surface burst with color and life. They sustain bountiful ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations from their collective skeletons, broker symbiotic relationships with algae, and manufacture their own fluorescent sunblock. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, damage by humans, and a devastating pandemic.Juli Berwald fell in love with coral reefs as a marine biology student, entranced by their beauty and complexity. Alarmed by their peril, she traveled the world to discover how to prevent their loss. She met scientists and activists operating in emergency mode, doing everything they can think of to prevent coral reefs from disappearing forever. She was so amazed by the ingenuity of these last-ditch efforts that she joined in rescue missions, unexpected partnerships, and risky experiments, and helped rebuild reefs with rebar and zip ties.Life on the Rocks is an inspiring, lucid, meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds. As she also attempts to help her daughter in her struggle with mental illness, Berwald explores what it means to keep fighting a battle whose outcome is uncertain. She contemplates the inevitable grief of climate change and the beauty of small victories.

Georgia Freshwater Fishes is a portable reference guide to 80 native species of freshwater fish that inhabit Georgia's lakes and rivers. The illustrated, waterproof 12-panel folding guide features a watershed map to which each species is keyed, and provides descriptions of anatomy and distinguishing features. Made in the USA.