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61) Tomorrow
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Shortlyafter giving birth to her first child, French actress and director Melanie Laurent became increasingly aware of the dangers and the state of urgency that her son will face in the future. Along with friend and activist Cyril Dion and their crew, she decided to travel the world in search of solutions that can help save the next generations. The result is an inspiring documentary that presents concrete solutions implemented throughout the world...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Humanity's impact on the natural world can have disastrous effects. Melting Arctic Ice shines a light on how climate change is affecting Earth's polar region. With abundant charts and diagrams and large-format photos, this title explores the science behind greenhouse gases, polar sea ice, and rising sea levels, and considers actions people and governments can take to try to improve the situation. Features include a flow chart showing the disaster's...
63) The dark shore
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The Atlanteans volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
On the run from EdenWest, Owen, Lily, and Leech cross North American deserts seeking Atlantis and find a third Atlantean, the wild child Seven, who is goddess of the Heliad-7 death cult in Yucatan.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Takes viewers around the globe and highlights the issues that are threatening the world's environment. Filmed in 13 countries, uncovering places where environmental change is not a theory or a future forecast but a crisis happening in real time. Brings the stories behind the statistics and focuses on today's environmental threats and their impact on tomorrow.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Environmental Resilience and Transformation in Times of COVID-19: Climate Change Effects on Environmental Functionality is a timely reference to better understand environmental changes amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns. The book is organized into five themes: (1) environmental modifications, degradation, and human health risks; (2) water resources--planning, management, and governance; (3) air quality--monitoring, fate, transport,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
For millennia, plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of humanity's relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day,...
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The breathe trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Alina, Quinn, and Bea, now outlaws and outcasts, make their way to the last enclave of the Resistance but once there, they discover they can count on no one but each other and may, in fact, have to betray those they considered allies.
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NUMA files volume 4
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A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men, but when the two investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work
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Pub. Date
2004.
Description
An attention-grabbing primer on mankind's direct and indirect effects on the natural world. This important book explains how such topics as global trends, economic disparity, and invasive species, among others, have changed the world in which we live. World-renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's spectacular photographs feature fragile environments that are at risk of being lost as well as places that have already seen the devastating effects...
79) Breathe
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a barren future world, the company known as Breathe has saved humanity by manufacturing glass domes and oxygen rich air. Outside the domes there is nothing, not even oxygen. Three teens--Alina, a thief; Quinn, a teen looking for romance with the girl of his dreams, the description of which fits Alina; and Bea, the girl who had hoped Quinn would notice her--take a journey into the Outlands, with enough oxygen for two days. What they find out there...
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A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital building blocks. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change and powering crucial technologies. These tensions have sparked...