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Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Transform your outdoor space into a low-impact, carbon-absorbing sink with this fantastic gardening guide, packed with ideas to grow a climate-friendly garden that will help protect the planet. Keen on starting your own garden but unsure about your environmental impact? This guide will give you practical advice on which soil to use, plants that are best for absorbing carbon dioxide, low-carbon fertilizers, and cutting out single-use plastic. What's...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate change. Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively, even on the urgent issue of sustainability. Can cities do better? Benjamin R. Barber argues that with more than half the world's population, 80 percent of both its GDP and its greenhouse...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning investigative journalist Lee Van der Voo reports on Juliana v. the United States. Combining unparalleled access to the plaintiffs and reporting on the natural disasters that form an urgent backdrop to the story, van der Voo shares a timely and important story about the environment, the law, and the new generation of activists"--
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Three stories use themes of current ecological issues caused by global warming and encourage children to respect the planet. Stories take young readers to the North Pole, the Amazon rainforest and an island in the Indian Ocean and include ideas about "eco-gestures" young children can make to help the environment.
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of SImon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"This vivid, terrifying, and galvanizing novel reveals our future world after previous generations failed to halt climate change-perfect for fans of The Drowned World and World War Z. 2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting oral...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking forward the work of a brilliant new group of Earth-system scientists who have mapped out real planetary boundaries, Lynas draws a radical manifesto calling for the increased use of environmentally friendly technologies like genetic engineering and nuclear power as part of a global effort to use humanity's best tools to protect and nurture the biosphere.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Everyone needs to understand how climate change will directly affect their lives and the lives of their family in the years to come. This is the first general audience book aimed at giving you and your family the knowledge you need to know to navigate your future"--
Publisher
Portfolio Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, and now we face a critical decision. Whether to be optimistic or fatalistic, whether to profess skepticism or to take action. Yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not opinions. Insights, not...
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Earth is in peril. Is the only hope for salvation a five-year-old, half-human, half-Arcturian prince and a master Starseed mystic? Enter the extraordinary world of Crown Prince Ian, the last surviving heir of the Royal Arcturian Family of Antwar. He's half-human, half-alien, with an IQ approaching 200 and a penchant for Swiss chocolates and defending humanity from itself. Is he Earth's savior from climate change? Or, as his genetic grandmother would...
Author
Publisher
Rodale Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness - and with humor, too - that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we...
74) The greatest polar expedition of all time: the Arctic mission to the epicenter of climate change
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Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A captain's tell-all about the world's largest Arctic expedition--an illuminating account of seafaring adventure, Arctic natural history, and cutting-edge climate science. The book about the Mosaic Expedition: as seen in the documentary film Arctic Drift, Atmospheric scientist Markus Rex recounts the monumental Arctic expedition he captained for one year in this gripping and authoritative book. A groundbreaking step towards understanding the climate...
76) Weather of the future: heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Yellowstone is home to North America's most iconic wildlife, and every year these animals must survive the Thaw-one of the harshest seasonal changes on Earth when temperatures can swing from minus 40°F in winter to almost 100°F in summer. Learn how animals cope with this range, and witness the impact on individual families of wolves, grizzly bears, beavers, and great gray owls.
Author
Publisher
Quill Driver Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description -- Concern about greenhouse gasses and the warming of the planet is reaching a crescendo never before experienced. In the past, crises that have threatened the lives and livelihoods of huge portions of the populace have spurred entrepreneurs to come up with solutions that eventually tempered the crisis, improved the quality of life, and laid the groundwork for future growth and development. As consumers demand planet-friendly...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Clear, accessible, often funny-- and accompanied by lively illustrations that bring the story to life-- Palm Trees at the North Pole will help young readers understand the most important issue humanity has ever faced.
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