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English
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"Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"What if Atlantis wasn't 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 Earth's...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian Ocean. They earn their living by fishing. But the ocean is rising and each day they bring back fewer and fewer fish. Yuki lives in the far north of Canada where warming temperature are melting the ice. Polar bears have less food to hunt and are wandering into town looking for something to eat. Yuki is determined to do something to help the bears." -Publisher...
Publisher
Hippo Works
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Enjoy this weekly cartoonlet collection with the "IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!" gang as they go on their jungle adventures. The cast includes Simon the Hippo, Peep the Bird, and Suzanne Crystal Goddess. These animals live with joys and struggles very much like our own while also being on the 'front lines' of the environment, making issues like climate change and animal extinction causes they must face and cannot run away from.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Chicken Little may have thought the sky was falling but Peter Pika is sure the glaciers are melting and is off to talk to the Mountain Monarch about it. Joined along the way by friends Tammy Ptarmigan, Sally Squirrel, Mandy Marmot, and Harry Hare, they all wonder what will happen to them if the glaciers melt. Where will they live, how will they survive? When Wiley Wolverine tries to trick them, can the Mountain Monarch save them? More importantly,...
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English
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"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."--
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English
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"With fires devastating much of America, Lark and his family first leave their home in Maryland for Maine. But as the country increasingly falls under the grip of religious nationalism, it becomes clear that nowhere is safe, not just from physical disasters but also persecution. The family secures a place on a crowded boat headed to Ireland, the last place on earth rumored to be accepting American refugees. Upon arrival, it turns out that the safe...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Four experts from a wide range of subject areas share their perspectives on the dangers of environmental damage, arguing for a more widespread recognition of the importance of environmental issues.
12) Cool the Climate
Publisher
Hippo Works
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Simon the Hippo and friends go on a song-filled adventure while learning about the world's changing climate, the role that carbon dioxide and methane play, and the good green habits we can all develop to help cool the climate! Along their way the animals find out about topics such as the Greenhouse Effect, the Food Chain, the "Three Rs" (Reducing, Reusing, Recycling), Composting, and Carbon Offsetting.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
At the heart of the Indian Ocean, three islands are the sentries against climate change: The Seychelles, Mauritius, and Reunion. The latter has shown its will to be independent of fossil energy by 2030. Its neighbours are trying to follow in its footsteps. Yet, it might already be too late as cyclones are predicted to grow stronger.
Author
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Why should you care about climate change? Weather affects your everyday life and climate change can have major impacts. Discover how scientists study climate change, what current research shows, and what you can do to reverse its effects"--
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Dive into the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. How can scientists better predict these storms, and what does the 2017 season tell us about the likelihood of similar storms in the future?
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
During his four-decade career as a photographer and explorer, James Balog has focused his lens on the complex relationship between humans and nature. Human activity has now surpassed all other forces shaping our world. Balog’s work has challenged us to contemplate our place in, and responsibility to, the natural world. Balog investigates how altering the elements is in turn affecting everyday Americans right now. THE HUMAN ELEMENT features subjects...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Over a three year period, we travelled 60,000 miles to interview 40 people from seven countries on five continents to tell the human story of electricity and explain why power equals power.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel Award In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster. Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens...
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