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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.
"In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration--the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina--John Vaillant warns that...
62) The science
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents up-to-date information about climate change, focusing on the scientific discoveries that allow us to understand how this process is occurring. Features color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (457 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Season One ended, so did the revolution, with Layton emerging as Snowpiercer's leader and another threat to the survivors fast approaching in the form of a rival train. In Season Two, Mr. Wilford arrives, bringing a secret from Melanie's past. A new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalties to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing....
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 293 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Klare shows that the U.S. military sees the climate threat as imperiling the country on several fronts at once.
The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate changestill linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
BR 30L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
Eighteenth-century Ohio: two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
1270L
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What if Atlantis wasnt a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earths thermometer,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 566 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes...
72) Geostorm
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong. The system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations, color photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 2019, frustrated with the obvious inaction of politicians and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda moved to Washington, DC to lead weekly climate change demonstrations on Capitol Hill. On October 11, she launched Fire Drill Fridays (FDF), and has since led thousands of people in non-violent civil disobedience, risking arrest to protest for action. In her new book, Fonda weaves her deeply...
74) Social solutions
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Lexile measure
980L
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.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Our planet is warming because of human activity. Foer believes the task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves-- with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Saving our home and way of life starts with what we eat-- and don't eat-- for breakfast. -- adapted...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
v, 122 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
How do we know the climate is changing? For more than 200 years, scientists have been observing, measuring, and analyzing information about our planet's climate. Studies from the Antarctic, Amazon, Great Barrier Reef, and beyond show that the earth is in constant transition and humans have an effect on what happens. In Climate Change: Discover How It Impacts Spaceship Earth, young readers examine real studies concerning planetary science, Arctic ice...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Lexile measure
940L
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.