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Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles twelve children who have had an impact on the environment, from a Canadian girl who gave a major speech to a Malawian boy who brought electricity to his village and a Chinese boy who works to keep endangered animals from the market.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book--the testimony of the authors' experience--exposes the extent to which we are poisoned every day of our lives, from the simple household dust that is polluting our blood to the toxins in our urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste. Ultimately hopeful, the book empowers readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families, and changing things for the better.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"If a shipping container filled with 28,000 plastic ducks spilled into the Pacific Ocean, where would all those ducks go? Inspired by a real incident, this captivating and innovative look at the pollution crisis in our oceans follows one of the ducks as it is washed away on ocean currents, encountering plastic-endangered whales and sea turtles, and passing through the giant floating island of marine debris known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--...
5) Acid rain
Author
Publisher
Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Discusses the vast contamination of forests and lakes throughout the world by the acidity in the rainfall.
7) Pesticides
Author
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Examines the controversy over the use of pesticides and discusses the effects of this use on agriculture, health, and the environment.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Examines the causes and implications of global warming and discusses such topics as the role of everyday choices and the policy-making practices of governments and industries.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
While being pregnant is thrilling, the responsibility of a growing baby can provoke anxiety about what is and isn't safe. In The Complete Organic Pregnancy, Deirdre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu address how you can minimize your exposure to the invisible toxins that surround us-in everything from food, cleaning products, and cosmetics to furniture, rugs, air, and water. Step by step, they tell you where dangerous chemicals are lurking, why it's so important...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's wish and commandment, 'Hang on to your land!' But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family--like other irrigators--pumps...
Author
Publisher
Platform Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The revolution has already begun. The fracking revolution, that is. The Fracking Truth is a primer on America's ongoing energy revolution, but it's also a call to action. The oil and gas industry has failed itself and failed the American public by doing a poor job of educating the public on fracking and related technologies that have created the American energy revolution. Readers will learn about the myths and the truths of the controversial practice...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral...
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