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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In a future shaken by climate disasters, Yolanda Cicer̤n knows that nature is something to be feared. While life in the Valley is brutal and harsh, Yoly dreams of leaving her farm to live in Silo--the most advanced town for miles around. But first, Yoly will need to prove she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed. Between her razor-sharp smarts and sheer determination, Yoly is well on her way until she discovers...
Author
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Editors' Choice • A New Yorker and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 • A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 • A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book • A Next Big Idea Must-Read Book • A Library Journal What To Read In 2023 Book
The New York Times best-selling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future.
Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids.
...Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From Tanja Hester, Our Next Life blogger and author of Work Optional, comes the mindset-shifting guide to help you put your money where your mouth is. Wallet Activism is not a list of dos and don'ts that will soon become outdated, nor does it call for anti-consumerist perfection"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. Butwe have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: history. The study of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the past ten years, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal...
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
1st Scholastic ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
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
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future. For over twenty years, Bill Nye has inspired legions of fans with an empowering message: The combination of scientific curiosity and human ingenuity can transform obstacles into opportunities, and unlock a future of endless possibilities. Now, in Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World,...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and have given rise to misinformation. The peril that...
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 4
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Taking on her biggest challenge yet--preventing climate change from destroying the Earth--Max Einstein is pitted against a new evil group that would rather let the whole world crumble than allow her to save the planet.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, Jerome R. Corsi exposes the political, scientific, and economic reasons for concluding the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] is an advocacy creation of the United Nations that masquerades as a scientific research community to push climate hysteria for globalist political purposes"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Whew, is it warm in here? Learn what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment all agree that humans play a large part in climate change, there is a counter argument....
17) Water day
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Language
English
Description
Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases. Fluvial geologist and former Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton follows species both human and wild to their watery roots--in warming deserts, near rising Pacific tides, on endangered, tapped-out rivers, and in growing urban ecosystems. Lawton thoroughly and eloquently explores human attitudes toward water...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, an award-winning science journalist, in this urgent call to action, discusses the underreported, seismic consequences of climate change and how it will reshape humanity.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now
Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business
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