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Publisher
Catapult
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the major changes that a few degrees increase in the Earth's temperature could bring. Discusses the effects of heat, flooding, fire, storms, loss of farmland, and disease. Includes a worst case scenario and a glossary.
Author
Publisher
Seahorse Publishing
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
Language
English
Description
Describes the causes and effects of climate change on the Earth, and discusses what scientists are doing to monitor and stop it. Includes a scientist profile, fact boxes, color photographs, a glossary, an activity, and text-dependent questions.
Author
Publisher
Abdo Pub. Co
Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Debunks seven myths related to climate change. Discusses what scientists know and what they don't know. Explains the difference between the weather and the climate and argues that global warming is occurring and is harmful.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Publication Date
2020
Physical Desc
93 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our house is on fire--it's time to wake up to the climate crisis facing planet Earth before it's too late. This unique graphic atlas tells you everything you need to know about climate change and what we can do to turn things around. Which countries generate the highest CO2 emissions? Which coastal cities are most vulnerable to rising sea levels? What will the polar ice caps look like in 10 years' time? Which countries have successfully harnessed...
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents up-to-date information about social solutions to climate change, revealing what everyday citizens can do to help preserve the environment. Features color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 385 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
Language
Español
Description
Explores how to analyze the data collected about temperature changes on Earth in order to create solutions to the problem of global warming. Includes color photographs, a glossary, fact boxes, an activity, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of scientist Max Axiom as he explains the science of global warming. Discusses the greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide, rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and the elderly who are vulnerable to high temperatures. Includes ways to stop global warming, an activity, discussion questions, writing prompts, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xv, 270 pages ; 25 cm
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
ABDO Pub. Co
Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents up-to-date information about current technological solutions to slow climate change. Features informative text, a glossary, and color photographs.
16) Climate change
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the factors involved in climate change, that the world is warming up, that farming and deforestation play a role in the process, and that it could change ecosystems.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning, practical (and funny) guide to reducing your carbon footprint. Calculate your carbon footprint: with an item-by-item breakdown. Meet your company's carbon goals: using the latest research. Covid-19 and the carbon battle: understand the new global supply chain. The Carbon Footprint of Everything breaks items down by the amount of carbon they produce, creating a calorie guide for the carbon-conscious. With engaging writing, leading...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and woman's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention. Our Biggest Experiment tells Foote's story, along with stories of the many other scientists who came before and after her, helping build our modern understanding...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Publication Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged ) : col ill. ; 23 cm x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winston is worried because the ice of the Hudson Bay is melting sooner each year and he and his fellow polar bears have less time to hunt for food, but he comes up with an idea that will make the tourists who come to see the bears realize what is going on.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books Llc
Publication Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
131 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the Science Fair, and the second grade is all over it! Some kids are making man-eating robots. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. Some kids are doing interesting things with vacuum cleaners. The theme, obviously, is global warming. But what should Ivy and Bean do? Something involving explosions? Or ropes? Something with ice cubes? Or maybe...maybe something different.