Deserts In Danger A True Book The Earth At Risk

Author : Cody Crane
Publisher : C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1546102183

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Deserts in Danger (a True Book: The Earth at Risk) by Cody Crane Pdf

Discover the rich biodiversity of Earth's biomes -- and how they might be saved -- with this STEAM-based subset of True Books. Did you know that the Sahara is the world's largest hot desert? Or that Antarctica is the world's largest cold desert? Get ready to investigate the driest places on the planet, hot and cold, as well as the plants and animals that have adapted to survive there. You'll also learn about the many threats facing this fascinating biome -- and what each of us can do to help -- all in the pages of Deserts in Danger. ABOUT THE SERIES: There are five major biomes on Earth: desert, forest, grassland, aquatic, and tundra. These rich, wild places are home to a wide variety of plants and animals -- many of which are found nowhere else. Unfortunately, these ecosystems have been put at risk by human activities. This STEAM-based set of True Books introduces students to the incredible biodiversity of Earth's amazing biomes, as well as the threats they face in the era of climate change. Interesting information is presented in a fun, friendly way -- and in the simplest terms possible -- and will inspire kids to think about how they can help stop the destruction of Earth's wild spaces.

Author : Jasmine Ting
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781546102113

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Forests in Danger (A True Book: The Earth at Risk) by Jasmine Ting Pdf

Discover the rich biodiversity of Earth's biomes - and how they might be saved - with this STEAM-based subset of True Books. Did you know that forests contain many plant and animal species that are still unknown to science? This leafy biome is also a key to slowing climate change! Get ready to investigate Earth's wildly diverse forest ecosystems, as well as the plants and animals that have adapted to survive in them. You'll also learn about the many threats facing this fascinating biome - and what each of us can do to help - all in the pages of Forests in Danger. ABOUT THE SERIES: There are five major biomes on Earth: desert, forest, grassland, aquatic, and tundra. These rich, wild places are home to a wide variety of plants and animals - many of which are found nowhere else. Unfortunately, these ecosystems have been put at risk by human activities. This STEAM-based set of True Books introduces students to the incredible biodiversity of Earth's amazing biomes, as well as the threats they face in the era of climate change. Interesting information is presented in a fun, friendly way - and in the simplest terms possible - and will inspire kids to think about how they can help stop the destruction of Earth's wild spaces.

Author : Felicia Brower
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781546102083

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Grasslands in Danger (A True Book: The Earth at Risk) by Felicia Brower Pdf

Discover the rich biodiversity of Earth's biomes - and how they might be saved - with this STEAM-based subset of True Books. Did you know that grasslands cover 25 percent of Earth's surface? They are also being destroyed at an alarming rate! Get ready to investigate tropical and temperate grasslands around the globe, as well as the plants and animals that have adapted to survive on them. You'll also learn about the many threats facing this fascinating biome-and what each of us can do to help-all in the pages of Grasslands in Danger. ABOUT THE SERIES: There are five major biomes on Earth: desert, forest, grassland, aquatic, and tundra. These rich, wild places are home to a wide variety of plants and animals - many of which are found nowhere else. Unfortunately, these ecosystems have been put at risk by human activities. This STEAM-based set of True Books introduces students to the incredible biodiversity of Earth's amazing biomes, as well as the threats they face in the era of climate change. Interesting information is presented in a fun, friendly way - and in the simplest terms possible - and will inspire kids to think about how they can help stop the destruction of Earth's wild spaces.

Author : Uwe George
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000012622719

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In the Deserts of this Earth by Uwe George Pdf

Author : Natasha Vizcarra
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781546102175

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Tundra in Danger (A True Book: The Earth at Risk) by Natasha Vizcarra Pdf

Discover the rich biodiversity of Earth's biomes - and how they might be saved - with this STEAM-based subset of True Books. Did you know that it stays dark, 24-hours-a-day, for months at a time in the tundra? This frigid biome also has permanently frozen ground! Get ready to investigate some of Earth's most unforgiving ecosystems, as well as the plants and animals that have adapted to survive in them. You'll also learn about the many threats facing this fascinating biome - and what each of us can do to help - all in the pages of Tundra in Danger. ABOUT THE SERIES: There are five major biomes on Earth: desert, forest, grassland, aquatic, and tundra. These rich, wild places are home to a wide variety of plants and animals - many of which are found nowhere else. Unfortunately, these ecosystems have been put at risk by human activities. This STEAM-based set of True Books introduces students to the incredible biodiversity of Earth's amazing biomes, as well as the threats they face in the era of climate change. Interesting information is presented in a fun, friendly way - and in the simplest terms possible - and will inspire kids to think about how they can help stop the destruction of Earth's wild spaces.

Author : Alicia Green
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781546102052

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Oceans in Danger (A True Book: The Earth at Risk) by Alicia Green Pdf

Discover the rich biodiversity of Earth's biomes - and how they might be saved - with this STEAM-based subset of True Books. Did you know that Earth's five major oceans are all part of one giant global ocean? This biome is also home to the smallest animals on the planet - and the largest! Get ready to investigate Earth's mysterious ocean ecosystems, as well as the plants and animals that have adapted to survive in them. You'll also learn about the many threats facing this fascinating biome - and what each of us can do to help - all in the pages of Oceans in Danger. ABOUT THE SERIES: There are five major biomes on Earth: desert, forest, grassland, aquatic, and tundra. These rich, wild places are home to a wide variety of plants and animals - many of which are found nowhere else. Unfortunately, these ecosystems have been put at risk by human activities. This STEAM-based set of True Books introduces students to the incredible biodiversity of Earth's amazing biomes, as well as the threats they face in the era of climate change. Interesting information is presented in a fun, friendly way - and in the simplest terms possible - and will inspire kids to think about how they can help stop the destruction of Earth's wild spaces.

Author : duncan ewing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1699489424

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Global Warming a Real Threat by duncan ewing Pdf

this book is about how climate change is impacting our world today. The reality is that the planet is warmer than its ever been and the concern is that the temperature will only get worse. Plans need to be made to combat global warming before its too late for this planet and the species that will become extinct as a result. The system that humans are the main reason for man-made global warming and thus are primary responsible for the current warming period. IF CHANGE IS TO BE IMPLENTED, WE MUST ADOPT A NEW SYSTEM OF DOING THINGS: OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW.

Author : David Wallace-Wells
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525576723

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The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radiation Effects Research,Committee to Review the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780309089029

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A Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radiation Effects Research,Committee to Review the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Pdf

From 1945 through 1962, the US atmospheric nuclear weapons testing program involved hundreds of thousands of military and civilian personnel, and some of them were exposed to ionizing radiation. Veterans' groups have since been concerned that their members' health was affected by radiation exposure associated with participation in nuclear tests and have pressured Congress for disability compensation. Several pieces of legislation have been passed to compensate both military and civilian personnel for such health effects. Veterans' concerns about the accuracy of reconstructed doses prompted Congress to have the General Accounting Office (GAO) review the dose reconstruction program used to estimate exposure. The GAO study concluded that dose reconstruction is a valid method of estimating radiation dose and could be used as the basis of compensation. It also recommended an independent review of the dose reconstruction program. The result of that recommendation was a congressional mandate that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a part of the Department of Defense, ask the National Research Council to conduct an independent review of the dose reconstruction program. In response to that request, the National Research Council established the Committee to Review the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in the Board on Radiation Effects Research (BRER). The committee randomly selected sample records of doses that had been reconstructed by DTRA and carefully evaluated them. The committee's report describes its findings and provides responses to many of the questions that have been raised by the veterans.

Author : Steve Parker
Publisher : QED Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Desert ecology
ISBN : 1845389530

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Deserts by Steve Parker Pdf

Covers all aspects of deserts, including climate, amimals, people, key geographical features and environmental threats.

Author : Anne C. Cunningham,Kenneth Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0766072843

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Climate Change by Anne C. Cunningham,Kenneth Green Pdf

"Describes climate change, its effects, and the controversy around it"--

Author : Aldo Starker Leopold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Desert ecology
ISBN : 8439963629

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The Desert by Aldo Starker Leopold Pdf

Discusses the climate, land formations, vegetation, animals, water supplies, and people of the earth's deserts.

Author : Bjorn Lomborg
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781541647480

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False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg Pdf

The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world. Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education. False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong -- and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.

Author : Laurence P. Pringle
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0613993489

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Global Warming by Laurence P. Pringle Pdf

Discover how global warming began, what problems it is causing, and how it can be reversed.

Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610918183

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Firestorm by Edward Struzik Pdf

"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus "Should be required reading." --Library Journal In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast." It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. In Firestorm, Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. It's possible for us to flourish in the coming age of megafires--but it will take a radical new approach that requires acknowledging that fires are no longer avoidable. Living with fire also means, Struzik reveals, that we must better understand how the surprising, far-reaching impacts of these massive fires will linger long after the smoke eventually clears.