Nowhere left to go : how climate change is driving species to the ends of the earth / Benjamin von Brackel ; translated by Ayça Türkoğlu.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York, NY : The Experiment, 2022Description: 278 pages: illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
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- volume
- 9781615198610
- 161519861X
- Die Natur auf der Flucht. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As humans accelerate global warming while laying waste to the environment, animals and plants must flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. And when even these places become too hot and inhospitable, wildlife is left with only one path to survival: an often-formidable journey toward the poles as they race to find a new home in a warming world. Tropical zones lose their inhabitants, beavers settle in Alaska, and gigantic shoals of fish disappear--just to reappear along foreign coastlines.
Award-winning environmental journalist Benjamin von Brackel traces these awe-inspiring journeys and celebrates the remarkable resilience of species around the world. But the lengths these plants and animals must go to avoid extinction are as alarming as they are inspirational: Sea animals--like fish--move on average 45 miles a decade to cooler regions, while land animals--like beavers and butterflies--move 11 miles. As even the poles of the Earth heat up, we're left with a stark and irreversible choice: Halt the climate emergency now, or face a massive die-off of species, who are increasingly left with nowhere else to go.
Originally published in Germany as Die Natur auf der Flucht by Heyne Verlag, a division of Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, München, Germany, in 2021.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-259) and index.
"Harrowing journeys of animals and plants-fleeing skyrocketing temperatures and mega-droughts-reported from the frontlines of the greatest migration of species since the Ice Age"-- Provided by publisher.