Author: Australian Geographic Publisher: Australian Geographic ISBN: 9781742459592 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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The surface of our Earth is constantly fluctuating. Extreme weather events and movement of tectonic plates can rapidly create new and different environments.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Climatic changes Languages : en Pages : 29
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Extreme weather events, from bushfires to floods, and sudden geological changes, like earthquakes and tsunamis, have an enormous impact on our planet. In this book, students investigate different examples of extreme weather, focusing on examples from around Australia, and how these events affect living and non-living aspects of the environment.
Author: Corey Tutt Publisher: Australian Geographic ISBN: 9781922388162 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Extreme weather events, from bushfires to floods, and sudden geological changes, like earthquakes and tsunamis, have an enormous impact on our planet. In this book, students investigate different examples of extreme weather, focusing on examples from around Australia, and how these events affect living and non-living aspects of the environment.
Author: Kathleen Simpson Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 9781426303593 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 72
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Weather is changing, all around the world. Temperatures are higher, hurricanes are fiercer, droughts are more devastating, and floods are more widespread than ever before. Many of the world's finest scientists are studying our extreme weather today, in hopes of predicting how climate change will affect our future. Read about El Nino, greenhouse gases, the growing ozone hole, and global warming. Meet the scientists doing the most current research and see how modern technology helps them to do their work - work that is vitally important to the survival of our planet. "National Geographic Investigates" introduces young people to cutting edge techniques of scientific investigation, the most current discoveries, and the way that those discoveries are interpreted to throw new light on our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Special features include: map showing major sites discussed in the book, plus locator maps to start each chapter; sidebars explaining the latest technology being used by scientists; a 'Meet the Expert' sidebar presenting an interview with a scientist currently working in the appropriate field; timelines placing research and researchers in historical context and pinpointing the time period for each chapter; and, lavish design including photographs, illustrations, and diagrams.
Author: Georgina H. Endfield Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315461439 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Extreme weather events, such as droughts, strong winds and storms, flash floods and extreme heat and cold, are among the most destructive yet fascinating aspects of climate variability. Historical records and memories charting the impacts and responses to such events are a crucial component of any research that seeks to understand the nature of events that might take place in the future. Yet all such events need to be situated for their implications to be understood. This book is the first to explore the cultural contingency of extreme and unusual weather events and the ways in which they are recalled, recorded or forgotten. It illustrates how geographical context, particular physical conditions, an area’s social and economic activities and embedded cultural knowledges and infrastructures all affect community experiences of and responses to unusual weather. Contributions refer to varied methods of remembering and recording weather and how these act to curate, recycle and transmit extreme events across generations and into the future. With international case studies, from both land and sea, the book explores how and why particular weather events become inscribed into the fabric of communities and contribute to community change in different historical and cultural contexts. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in historical and cultural geography, environmental anthropology and environmental studies.
Author: William L. Steffen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Climatic changes Languages : en Pages : 68
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"The Climate Commission brings together internationally renowned climate scientists, as well as policy and business leaders, to provide an independent and reliable source of information about climate change to the Australian public"--Preface.
Author: Anthony William Rogers Publisher: ISBN: 9780646518411 Category : Climatic extremes Languages : en Pages : 194
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Heat waves, snowstorms, floods, droughts, tornadoes, rain and hail. South Australia's weather brings everything from idyllic snow to destructive bushfires and death. How do people cope? Sixteen human stories, some never told before, put you there at the time. Produced by The Australian Meteorological Association Inc and the Bureau of Meteorology, this book is about people and exceptional weather, how they cope, how they survive, and sadly, how they sometimes fail to survive. All proceeds are to be donated to the Royal Society for the Blind.
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Author: Australian Geographic
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Author: Georgina H. Endfield
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Author: Anthony William Rogers