Ergebnis für "Sea Change" in Technik

In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalisation that put the ship in harm’s way. On 1...

A single-sitting read of exhilarating energy and beauty, Rig 83 reconstructs a two-week shift on a North Sea oil rig in 1980, where Jonathan Lichtenstein was one of the lucky men who got paid serious money to do the lethal work behind a deadly business – and survived. Two hundred miles from...

The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a meter or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due to climate change. Large parts of our coastal cities will be flooded, the basic outline of our world will be changed, and torrential rains will present their own challenges. But this is not the first time that people have had to cope with threatening waters, because sea levels have been rising for thousands of years, ever since the end of the last Ice Age.