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Islands of abandonment : nature rebounding in the post-human landscape

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  • Temps de fonctionnement: 09:06 hrs
    Voix de: Cal Flyn
    Publisher:
    Penguin Audio, 2021
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Temps de fonctionnement: 09:06 hrs
    Voix de: Cal Flyn
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Flyn, Cal
    Date:
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    2021
    Summary:

    A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence. Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ. Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. Islands of Abandonment is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it is a case that hope is far from lost, and it is ultimately a story of redemption: the most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes and, in fact, they already are

    Original Publisher: [New York], Penguin Audio
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780593402320, 0593402324, 9780593402337, 0593402332