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Uplifting portraits of 12 young environmental activists who are stepping up to raise awareness and promote positive change explains how young people all over the world are launching initiatives to reforest the planet, eliminate single-use plastics, and protect pollinator insects.
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Celebrate young climate change activists in this charming story about an empowered girl who shows up, listens up, and ultimately, speaks up to inspire her community to take action against climate change. After attending a climate march, a young activist is motivated to make an effort and do her part to help the planet... by organizing volunteers to work to make green changes in their community, from cleaning a lake, to planting trees, to making composting...
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"Set the children in your life on a lifelong path to learning with the next installment of the Baby University board book series. Full of scientific information, this is the perfect book to teach complex concepts in a simple, engaging way. Climate Changefor Babies is a colorfully simple introduction for youngsters (and grown-ups!) to what climate change is and what we can do about it. It's never too early to become a scientist!"--
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"Become an eyewitness to the weird and wonderful ways of our world, from tsunamis to tornadoes, and discover nature's awesome potential with this Eyewitness guide. See how earthquakes, floods and hurricanes affect what lies in their path, and what measures we can use to protect ourselves from Mother Nature. Follow the journey of some of the most catastrophic disasters, and witness the rescue operations that followed. Learn, too, about the equipment...
10) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
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"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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A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate...
13) Climate change
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"Discusses how and why climates change over time, the climate changes that have occurred in the past, and the causes and effects of climate change today"--Provided by publisher.
15) Climate change
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"Scientists agree that climate change is at least partially to blame for extreme heat. They agree Earth's current warming trend is not a natural event. Instead, they believe human activity is the leading cause. Heatwaves across the contiguous United States have occurred more often and lasted longer since the 1960s, which is consistent with a warming climate due to climate change." --
16) Climate change
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An introduction to climate change covers such topics as the polar ice caps, the greenhouse effect, global warming, and fossil fuels.
19) Weather
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From wild tornadoes to blinding blizzards, learn what makes our climate and weather work in this stunning visual guide. Fiercer hurricanes, hungrier wildfires, flash floods, and desertification are becoming a part of daily life as our climate shifts and changes. Weather covers the most important areas of this timely topic, delivering up-to-date expert information on everything from the water cycle to winds, cloud galleries, fog, and snow, and from...
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