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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens. Not only does this phenomenon have consequences for our kids' physical and mental health, it calls into question their ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. We can talk about environmental stewardship, but until more people make meaningful contact...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003
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IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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An exploration of the world's most remarkable lakes examines the significance of humanity's impact on iconic inland waters, sharing their stories and how they represent history, culture, and the importance of conservation.
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Picador
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. "Urban ecologists" study how our manmade environments are changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. Schilthuizen takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. He shows how the wildlife sharing these spaces...
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Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents information about how human activity may threaten different species of North American frogs, and some steps that people can take to provide an environment in which frogs can thrive.
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World around us volume 6
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Young readers are introduced to environmental issues in their own neighborhoods in this illustrated nonfiction picture book."--
10) Enna burning
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Books of Bayern volume 2
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Enna's brother, Leifer, has found the secret to an extraordinary power--to make fire without a spark. It's an ability that could be used for good . . . if he can control it. But Enna can't decide if it's a power she wants for herself, or one that should be extinguished forever. When their home country of Bayern goes to war, the choice becomes unbearable. Enna never imagined the warm, life-giving energy of fire could destroy anything she loves, but...
11) The happening
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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After a series of mysterious events in which people kill themselves after suffering from disorientation, a science teacher and his family go on the run and discover that the source of the attacks appears to be a natural phenomenon.
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Crown
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch:...
15) Climate change
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Master the hottest--and most chilling--topic in the world today. More and more frequent extreme weather events occur each year, and wildlife everywhere is increasingly endangered. Science fiction or science fact, most climate experts see this as our world on climate change--and, according to polls, a majority of people around the globe agree. Climate Change For Dummies allows you to investigate this hottest of hotly debated issues for yourself--examining...
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Scholastic Focus
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2024.
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English
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With their stunning black-and-orange wings, monarch butterflies are one of the most recognizable insects on the planet. But despite their delicate beauty, these creatures are warriors. The moment they hatch, they're fighting for their lives. Everything is the enemy: from the very leaf they live on to the humans and animals around them to nature itself. How does such a tiny egg survive to become a butterfly? And even after emerging from the cocoon,...
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2019.
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English
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization...
20) Life from above
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Cameras in space tell stories of life on the planet from a brand new perspective, revealing its incredible movements, colors, patterns, and just how fast it is changing.
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