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This audiobook explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them. The lives of exoplanets and their stars are inextricably interwoven.

The story of our environment may well be the most important story this century. We focus on issues facing people and the planet. Leading environmentalists, organizations, activists, and conservationists discuss meaningful ways to create a better and more sustainable future. Participants include EARTHDAY.ORG, Greenpeace, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, PETA, European Environment Agency, Peter Singer, 350.org, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Earth System Governance Project, Forest Stewardship Council, Global Witness, ...

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment. Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never held a conventional academic appointment.

今、世界は新型コロナによって、グローバル・ボーダーレス化からローカル・ボーダー化に逆戻りしている。そんな変化の激しい現代社会を読み解くための強力なツール(教養)が「歴史」と「地理」。

Fair and inclusive decision-making for a healthy ocean whereby people and planet flourish.

Welcome to One Lagoon – One Voice, where members of the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program sit down with scientists, researchers, and community leaders to discuss important issues facing the 156-mile-long estuary on Florida’s east coast. Learn more about hot topics like seagrass restoration, manatee populations, and much more on the only show that brings both the wondrous and worrisome aspects of the Indian River Lagoon into focus. To learn more about the IRL Council and our lagoon home, visit: onelagoon.org

We’re living through a climate emergency; addressing this crisis begins by talking about it. Co-Hosts Greg Dalton, Ariana Brocious and Kousha Navidar bring you empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the challenge — the scary and the exciting, the individual and the systemic. Join us. Subscribe to Climate One on Patreon for access to ad-free episodes.

Aaron Cohen, Co-Founder and VP of Business Development of Therma, NYU Professor of History of Internet Media, and serial entrepreneur sits down with Point 01 experts – that is, experts working to solve the climate crisis by harnessing market forces. We want to know what the next industry-disrupting idea to mitigate the forces of climate change is and how it will make a profit in the process. We talk to entrepreneurs, scientists, scholars, thought leaders, investors and more on our journey to find the Point 01 of successful climate solution companies that will tap into the trillion dollar ...

This is the original bundle of the series Great Questions of Life. In this bundle you will find all of three books of Mr. John Break. If you ever asked yourself one of the great questions, just listen to these books all together.

Upwell, a podcast from Only One featuring weekly interviews with entrepreneurs, advocates, and leaders working to protect and restore the ocean and the planet. See the full show notes at www.only.one/upwell