Offers an inside look at the politics and science surrounding global warming; efforts by the oil, gas, and automobile industries to refute environmental research findings; and international attempts to pass environmental legislation. (view table of contents)

Examines air, air quality, and the ways in which it is affected by human activities.

Examines the ways in which humanity is poisoning the waters of our planet and how this pollution can be stopped.

Discusses man's use and abuse of various forms of energy, and suggests possible solutions for the future.

Discusses the adverse impact of development and other activities on the ecology of tropical forests, and considers the consequences of large-scale deforestation.

Product Description: Tarquin Teale, a sedimentology/stratigraphy postgraduate student at the Royal School of Mines, was killed in a road accident south of Rome on 17 October 1985. Premature death is a form of tragedy which can make havoc of the ordered progress which we try to impose on our lives...read more