This textbook uses stories to examine environmental issues related to human populations, consumption and the environmental footprint, ecology, evolution and biodiversity, water and food resources, fossil fuels and their alternatives, air pollution, sustainable living, and environmental, science, and information literacy. This edition adds chapters on environmental health, environmental policy, world hunger, and biodiversity preservation; incorporates key concepts and end-of-chapter study aids; adds questions to infographics; and moves some chapters online, including those on forest resources, grasslands and soils, marine resources, fisheries, biofuels, and new chapters on mineral resources and geology and raising livestock in concentrated animal feeding operations. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)