Publisher's Synopsis
This atlas has been updated to bring the most state-of-the-art information on all those environmental issues that one reads about in the newspaper headlines: the state of the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the rainforests and the tropical timber trade, urban air pollution; acid rain, population densities, nuclear energy, whaling, pollution of the seas, the Arctic and Antartica, as well as the status of many of the endangered species.;It explains all these issues, making it clear what is being done and what still needs to be done.
