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"Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the Anthropocene...
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Distributed by Schlessinger Meda
Pub. Date
p2004, c1996
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1 DVD (ca. 27 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This program explores Earth's age, uncovers fossils and traces evolution through the geological time periods. It also examines continental drift, cockroaches, early communication, and the role of mass extinctions throughout history.
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TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
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169 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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A paleontologist examines the importance of the way dinosaurs lived and may have died, the meaning of fossils, the nature of deep time, and humans? place in the world as the earth moves into an uncertain environmental future.
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Profile Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Which species should get tickets for the ark? Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs and global conservation efforts are failing to halt this. With limited resources available, we face tough choices about what to save. This timely book sets up a series of debates, pulling in case studies of plants and animals, from salmon vs seals to bees vs wasps to bison vs Siberian larch trees. There are many surprises....
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Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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122 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Have you seen a dodo bird recently? Do you have mastodons playing in your back yard? Not likely-- these species are extinct! In Earth's 4.5 billion-year history, more than 5 billion species have gone extinct, some of them at the same time. In EXTINCTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS, MASTODONS, AND DODO BIRDS? kids ages 9 to 12 learn about the detective work scientists perform to find out why mass extinctions happen...Try these hands-on STEM projects!...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
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50 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
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The tiger is just one of thousands of animals--including the ground iguana, the white-rumped vulture, and the partula snail--currently in danger of becoming extinct, joining the dodo, the marsupial wolf, the great auk, and countless others we will never see again.
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Climate novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
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573 pages
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"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive--one that will give both...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Investigate how an asteroid vanquished the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Join scientists as they drill into the impact crater and, for the first time, reconstruct the hell on earth that unfolded in the minutes, hours, and months after the impact.
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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xii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
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"Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs the way humans inhabit, exploit, and impact Earth today. He presents compelling evidence that unless we...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
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76 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
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For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. Award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that "weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen's waist." Their...
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Granta
Pub. Date
2011
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339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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How do we think about the things we have lost? How can we use what we know about extinctions - cultural, biological and industrial - to reconnect with nature? When the gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from the Siberian permafrost in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer existed. For the first time, humans had to contemplate the...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
©2014
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8 sound discs (510 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
"Starred Review"--Publishers Weekly
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Panamericana Editorial
Pub. Date
2017.
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77 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Describes the major types of habitat and presents information on individual mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish that are in danger of extinction, including their scientific name, size, diet, threats to them, and conservation efforts.
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Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
2006
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1 DVD (ca. 49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Investigates the cause of the so-called Permian extinction, which wiped out 95% of all life on Earth 250 million years ago. Archaeologists, historians and geologists discuss their findings about the nature of the 3-stage process. Filmed in South Africa, Siberia, Iceland, Greenland, Antarctica and the Alps. Reconstructions of volcanic eruptions.
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Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Insects play a critical role on our planet, from sustenance to pollination to medicines and more. Brenna Maloney tackles both the wacky and weird, as well as threats to insects and their habitats, their possible extinction, and ways that everyday people, like you, can prevent their decline.
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Under their skin volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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307 pages ; 22 cm.
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
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