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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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,...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Describes the tools that scientists use to analyze information about the Earth's climate and measure the current rate of climate change, with twenty-five projects for positive actions that can be done to protect the environment.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders--to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster.
Author
Publisher
Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Even though the Earth seems big and unchangeable, humans have altered its climate, creating consequences for all life. By working together, humans can save the planet, and ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The challenges facing our earth can feel overwhelming--recent research shows that more than 70% of Americans are worried about climate change and 51% say they feel helpless. Among millennials and Gen Z the numbers are even higher. How to Keep Your Cool While the World Is On Fire offers ten steps to help nourish, ground, and inspire anyone who is worried about climate change. Filled with exercises and reflection questions, the steps help readers process...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Here is the story of the largest storms on earth and how those storms are growing bigger and stronger. The tale of extreme weather doesn't begin with floods, fires, or even the air that carries this change to our lives. It begins with the ocean. Oceans create weather, climate, floods, droughts, and most of the geophysical fallout of global warming. Exactly how, award-winning writer Porter Fox contends, depends on invisible ocean currents, planetary...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future. Called "one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change" by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats,...
19) Climate change
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Discover how global warming is changing our planet, and what we can do to fight back."--Cover.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This argument is set within a broader narrative about human entanglements...
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