"Planet Earth is warming, causing climates to change. In [this book], learn how climate change affects the availability of food and water and how communities are responding to these changes."--Back cover

"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

"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

"An exploration of the effect that climate change has had and is having on animals; includes glossary, additional resources, and index"-- Provided by publisher