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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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Series
Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
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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Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
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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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
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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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
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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Series
Under their skin volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and most important, why their lives are in danger.
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When rag doll 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. It is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the newest member of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive and they will need to discover...
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Series
Climate novels volume 3
Publisher
Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A novel set both in the distant past and the dystopian future explores extinction and survival, family and hope.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Investigates what would happen if every single person on Earth simply disappeared. The Earth would be a world where city streets would still be populated by cars, but without drivers. Nobody to fix bridges, repair buildings, or maintain power facilities. After being controlled by humanity for millennia, the Earth would be reclaimed by nature. See how long skyscrapers and our homes would last if abandoned.
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