From wild tornadoes to blinding blizzards, learn what makes our climate and weather work in this stunning visual guide. Fiercer hurricanes, hungrier wildfires, flash floods, and desertification are becoming a part of daily life as our climate shifts and changes. Weather covers the most important areas of this timely topic, delivering up-to-date expert information on everything from the water cycle to winds, cloud galleries, fog, and snow, and from...

At a time when extreme weather is becoming more and more common, get clued up on the science behind it and the ways in which it's changing. Learn about all kinds of weather and marvel at how powerful it can be. Discover what the weather was like when the Earth was born and what it could be like in the future. Find out how weather is predicted and the inventions that harness its power.

"Examines what is known about weather--storms, predictions, climate, and other characteristics--and how different the facts are from what scientists, from ancient Sumerians to the recent past, believed to be true."-- Provided by publisher.

From understanding how weather forms in Earth's atmosphere to surviving extreme heat waves and record-breaking cold temperatures, everything you want to know about weather is in Ultimate Weatherpedia.

The world's climate is changing as a direct result of human activity. This book looks at what climate change is, the ways in which it is affecting our planet and suggests projects and ideas to encourage everyone to to do what they can to be greener, limit their own carbon footprints and make a difference.

"El frío puede ser mortal, produce hielo, escarcha, avalanchas, congelación y ataques cardíacos. En este documental será llevado a Groenlandia, hogar de los Inuit para ver cómo sobreviven a temperaturas de -40 grados; ¿cuál será el efecto del frío extremo en su cuerpo?. En Nueva York, dos hombres que sobrevivieron a vientos salvajes que llegaron a 232 kms por hora en una extraña tormenta son entrevistados. El anfitrión, Donald MacIntre...