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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lucy Weaver has her future all figured out. Make an appearance at prom, ditch graduation, and then head out on an epic road trip with her boyfriend, Luke. But when everyone's phones start to ring halfway through the dance, Lucy knows something terrible has happened--something big. Decades of climate change have left the world teetering on the brink--entire cities drowned, violent extremism on the rise, millions of refugees with nowhere to turn. Is...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The Voyagers have made it to the last planet but must acquire a seventh element, combat dragons and an alien clone, and face serious illness before returning to Earth.
Author
Series
House of the scorpion volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
411 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patrón, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Rowan is finally in Harmonia, an Earth-friendly, sustainable commune in the wilderness she always believed was dead. Even in this idyllic world, she finds no peace. Harmonia has strict rules-and dire consequences. Thinking about Eden is forbidden, but she's determined to rescue the loved ones she left behind. Though they are in terrible danger, her pleas for help are ignored. After months of living as one with nature, a shocking reminder of her past...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
10) Migrations
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
Author
Series
Neptune Project volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Nere and her friends, all genetically engineered to survive in the ocean, go on a rescue mission"--
12) The Fire Eternal
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 4
Formats
Description
As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
13) The 11th hour
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010, c2011
Physical Desc
401 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
A conservationist explores various global regions to investigate examples of environmental degradation and renewal while identifying a link between environmental dangers and human rights issues.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xv, 303 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Most people know Ted Danson from television and movies, but fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe--the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. Here, Danson details his journey from joining a modest local protest in the mid-1980s to his current status...
Author
Publisher
Time Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xv, 253 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests:...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Go on a breathtaking adventure through time and across five continents to reveal nature's most vital secrets. You will see the alarming destruction humankind has caused to our ecosystems and find hope in recent efforts to restore the natural balance we have disturbed.
20) The Fog diver
Author
Series
Fog diver novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Working with salvagers in a fog-covered world that has forced civilization to move to the highest mountain peaks, thirteen-year-old Chess hides a deadly secret about his ability to survive while his crew leader forges an evil plan.
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