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1) Weird weather: [everything you didn't want to know about climate change but probably should find out
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95 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Extreme storms like hurricanes and blizzards are happening more often. Is this because of climate change? Read this book to discover the relationship between storms and climate change. You can find out more about what scientists and engineers are doing to address climate issues and what you can do to help." --Amazon.com.
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45 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"Planet Earth is warming, causing climates to change. In [this book], learn how climate change affects Earth's many biomes -- for example, its deserts, forests, and tundra. Such biomes exist under only certain climate conditions."--Back cover
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48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
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"Earth is a complex system of natural cycles. Carbon, water, and other materials move in and out of rocks, the air, bodies of water, and living things. But human activities have thrown these cycles out of balance. In [this book], learn how Earth's living and nonliving things are connected and how human activities have damaged that connection."--Back cover
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"The climate has changed many times throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year history. But such changes have never happened as quickly as those happening today. In [this book], learn how the climate is changing, how scientists study that change, and why most of them think human activities are causing it."--Back cover
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In Climate Change: Discover How It Impacts Spaceship Earth, young readers examine real studies concerning planetary science, Arctic ice bubbles, and migratory patterns. Kids explore the history of human impact from the Industrial Revolution to our modern-day technology, as well as the innovations underway around the world to address global climate change.
Describes the tools that scientists use to analyze information about the Earth's climate and...
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"As hurricanes, droughts, floods, and wildfires are increasing in regularity and intensity, climate change can no longer be ignored. Melting permafrost, forest dieback, ocean acidification, and other processes are creating positive feedback loops which could, if not aggressively and quickly addressed, spiral out of control and take global warming past the point of no return. Hothouse Earth examines how science, politics, and social justice must all...
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44 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Everyone is affected by climate change. Reading Climate Action: What Happened and What We Can Do is the perfect introduction not only to the dramatic effects of climate change, but to the solutions. Learn how our behavior and actions have led us to this point, hear from kids around the world dealing with extreme storms, wildfires, and sea level rise, and discover what scientists, youth activists, and ordinary citizens are doing to protect their communities....
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"Interviews with 25 climate leaders under age 25 present a hopeful picture of the future of environmentalism. These fearless girls and young women from all over the world have led hundreds of thousands of people in climate strikes, founded nonprofits, given TED talks, and sued their governments. They are standing up to demand change when no one else is"--
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150 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"A meditative, immersive take on the weather around us. Sophisticated nonfiction picture book with informational content. Illustrated with striking atmospheric paintings. Includes calls to action for the reader, inviting them to observe and inquire about the outdoors. Through four chapters-sun, rain, ice and snow, and extreme weather-this book explores different weather phenomena, from rainbows and sunsets to clouds, frost, and rainstorms. Evocative...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 x 26 cm
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Tells the story of Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage climate activist who has sparked a worldwide student movement and is demanding action from world leaders who refuse to address climate change.
18) Sunny the shark
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101 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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As Sunny the shark searches for her next meal, a chatty school of pilot fish trails behind, cleaning her in exchange for food crumbs, but when Sunny mistakes a plastic ring for prey and it gets caught around her fin, she soon struggles to hunt.
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Women of power volume 10
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Sarah reached out to women around the world who are tirelessly working to repair our climate. They are scientists, policymakers, journalists, lawyers, activists, professors, researchers, and organizers. Their lives are absorbed in seeking solutions. Here they walk readers through the steps to change. They show us what we can -- and must -- do for our future. Their advice? Do the work. Join an organization. Ask for help. And most important, get into...
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220 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Sixteen profiles of scientists who are changing the face of science and the future of Earth through their research"--
"Scientists who collect microbes from surfers' skin, who use radar sensors to gather data miles away, who combat inequality by pushing for cleaner air policies. Each with their own story, all working to make life better for future generations. Celebrated author Dana Alison Levy profiles 16 people, all studying different elements...
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