Susan Freinkel
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In this probing look at how plastic built the modern world--and the price the world has paid for plastic--journalist Freinkel points out that we're nearing a crisis point and gives readers the tools needed through lively anecdotes and analysis.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees - a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with catastrophic force. Within forty years, the blight had killed some four billion trees and left the species teetering on the brink of extinction. It was one of the worst ecological blows to North America since the...
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