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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. They suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? Can we alter this course of events?
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Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
v, 122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Description
"In Climate Change: The Science Behind Melting Glaciers and Warming Oceans with Hands-On Science Activities, students ages 9 to 12 take a deep dive into the science behind the changing climate in order to best contribute to the methods underway to solve the problem of a rapidly changing planet-and think up new solutions! Essential questions, cool facts, and links to online primary sources and other relevant material make complex concepts easier to...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
79 pages. ; 20 cm.
Description
Why is the Earth's climate changing? And how will this change our lives? HRH The PRince of Wales is worried about climate change. In this book, he explains why it is so important for us to stop climate change now, and he shpws how we can do it.
6) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 199 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
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Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
409 pages
Description
"In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem-as an investor, an advocate, and a philanthropist. Fifteen years later, despite breakthroughs in batteries, electric vehicles, plant-based proteins, and solar and wind power, global warming continues to...
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Publisher
Dawn Publications
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
66 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
"This volume describes where scientists look to find evidence of climate change--from changes in bird migration patterns and fruit blossom dates, to obtaining tree rings and mud cores--and especially how students and other citizen-scientists are assisting to monitor climate change, as well as what can be done to mitigate global warming"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Description
"From a writer and climate-change expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant big-picture reckoning with the reasons for our shocking failure to this point, focusing on the malign power of key business interests, and arguing that those same interests could flip this story very quickly, if a looming economic catastrophe doesn't happen first. Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change,...
11) Ark
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
532 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
It's the year 2041. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But hope has arisen with the discovery of another life-sustaining planet a light-year away. Only a small number will be able to make the journey--and the competition for survival can kill human compassion.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Description
"Regeneration is a response to the urgency of the climate crisis, a what-to-do manual for all levels of society, from individuals to national governments and everything and everyone in between. This four-color illustrated work describes a system of interlocking initiatives that aim to stem the climate crisis in one generation"--
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Description
"Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment agree that humans play a large part in climate change, there is a counterargument. Author Gail Herman...
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A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood...
16) Death wave
Author
Series
Star Quest novel volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human race acts to save itself, all life on Earth will be wiped...
17) Climate change
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Description
Discusses the causes and effects of climate change and global warming and what can be done to mitigate their effects.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages ; 25 cm
Description
" Are We Screwed? makes clear that the ardor for change defines this generation, especially when it comes to climate change, and they are willing to consider options that their elders might think naïve and impractical, rejecting a capitalism that cares only about profit and a political system riven by false ideology. In telling the stories of his contemporaries around the globe, in describing how they think and the many ways they are already effecting...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
261 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
"Weather is the very air we breathe--it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations...
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