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The climate in a region affects all aspects of life. This book looks at desert climates. It explores the characteristics of the land and weather in regions with desert climates, and how plants, animals, and people have adapted to life in deserts. The effects of climate change and other developments are also covered.
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Weather is packed with up-to-the-minute information about what happens and why. Eyewitness accounts from around the globe tell you how it really feels to get caught in the world's worst weather.
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Climate influences the features of the landscape, what farmers can grow, where people live, and the type of houses they build. But what happens when the climate changes abruptly and dramatically, not as part of a natural process of change but because of human activity? The result is more frequent and stronger extreme weather events such as heat waves, storms, torrential rain, raging winds, and hurricanes. This fascinating book uses case studies to...
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"A young man named Kaina ekes out an existence high atop the canopy that spreads from the titanic orbital spire trees. He and the handful of aging fellow villagers who remain believe they are the last humans in the world--after all, no one could survive amid the great snow sea that blankets the surface below. But they're about to learn how wrong they are..."--from back cover
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Scope and content: Reports and data compiled about climate and weather in Tennessee and Nashville. Statewide subjects include rainfall and current water resources in Tennessee in Oct. 1974; a report on the climate of the state in Feb. 1960, including freeze data, mean temperature and precipitation, norms, means and extremes of temperature, precipitation, humidity, and wind, and a map of the frequency of damage from tropical storms from 1901-1955....