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1) Half lives
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383 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Follows the lives of two unlikely teenaged heroes, mysteriously linked and living hundreds of years apart, as both struggle to survive and protect future generations from the terrible fate that awaits any who dare to climb the mountain.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface our seemingly pristine ocean. The result will astound viewers, just as it did our adventurers, who captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health.
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275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Hunt's first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to the sacred caves, catacombs, and tombs, from bunkers to ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world. In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, descends with an...
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Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds, fish, and other animals, harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle with fear and hope as they work to stop the flood of...
13) American wasteland: how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it)
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xvi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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xvi, 427 pages : maps ; 26 cm
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English
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The first comprehensive history and overview of U.S. nuclear waste law and regulation, Fuel cycle to Nowhere traces sixty years of nuclear weapons programs, the growth of nuclear power and its waste legacies, the rise of environmentalism, and the responses of federal agencies -- from book jacket.
15) The appeal
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English
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Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 28 cm
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English
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Inspired by a real incident, this look at the pollution crisis in our oceans follows one of the ducks as it is washed away on ocean currents, encountering plastic-endangered whales and sea turtles and passing through the giant floating island of marine debris known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A picture book with an ultimately hopeful message about environmental issues and the state of our oceans. An end map documents the widely scattered journey...
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Türkçe
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Filmed over five years, "Polluting paradise" chronicles the struggles of the inhabitants of Çamburnu, Turkey with the government authorities who have turned their seaside village into a depository for municipal waste.
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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Traces the history and eventual cleanup of the ecological disaster known as Love Canal, which resulted from building a neighborhood over a chemical dumpsite that poisoned the environment and endangered the health of residents.
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55 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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English
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Plastic garbage knows no borders. Dumped into the sea, it floats on ocean currents and is distributed around the globe, threatening the livelihoods of sea birds and animals who both eat and are trapped by plastic waste. Told from the perspective of a Northern Fulmar, a sea bird who makes its home in the northeast Atlantic and across the northern hemisphere, Plastic Sea: A Bird's-eye View uses the most up-to-date scientific information to offer insight...
20) Waste land
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Arthouse films volume 19
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of himself and his fellows as environmentalists. The pickers...
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