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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In this first-of-its-kind book told with hope for human resourcefulness in the face of climate change, the Earth shares her brief--cosmically speaking--life to date, eager to tell Earthlings all about her current life and her uncertain future."--
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English
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In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken-and possibly healed. Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged...
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American studies now volume 5
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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"From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers of the Maori web series Anamata Future News have all envisioned future worlds in the wake of imminent environmental collapse, engaging audiences to...
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English
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"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. BillGates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national,...
66) Two degrees
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.
67) Normal is over
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Renée Scheltema
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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An award-winning documentary about humanity's wisest responses to climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, income inequality, and the connection between these issues. A look at the financial and economical paradigm underlying our planetary problems, while offering various solutions to reverse the path of global decline.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Over 40 million Mexicans are living in risky "climate zones" Hurricanes, desertification and floods are not the only problems the inhabitants are facing. On the shores of Tabasco, the ocean is eating up the coast. Over 10 meters every year ...
69) Climate Exodus
Publisher
3Boxmedia International Sales
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
CLIMATE EXODUS narrates the tragedy of three women who have lost everything due to climate change. CLIMATE EXODUS narrates the tragedy of three women who have lost everything due to climate change and now emigrate to start a new life. Lobuin struggles every day to find the last water supply so that she can survive in Turkana (Kenya) where it does not rain anymore. Nazma lost her crop in Ghoramara (India) due to the sea level change. Soil salinity...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Over the past several decades, our world has been warming at a faster rate than ever before. Winters are shorter. Sea levels have risen. Territories of predators and prey have shifted. To survive in this new environment, animals everywhere have had to adapt, or face extinction. Complemented by Jamie Hogan's rich collage illustrations, A Warmer World offers young readers a clear-eyed look at the effects of climate change on animals around the world....
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English
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"Winner of the 2001 Book Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa" "One of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001" Richard B. Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The author of more than 240 scientific papers, he was also the host of the PBS miniseries Earth: The Operators' Manual.
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery...
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English
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"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages)
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English
Description
"Almost half of the planet's population now lives in the coastal zone. The impacts of these people - three billion and rising - are increasingly affecting the most dynamic and constantly changing environments on Earth. All shorelines are also experiencing a rising sea level, which is causing coastal erosion and flooding, and what may be a more severe future storm and wave climate. Future sea-level rise may be the greatest challenge human civilization...
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InsideClimate News
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Exxon denied climate change for decades. But not for lack of understanding, this report from InsideClimate News reveals. This Pulitzer Prize finalist tracks how the oil company's own scientists looked into climate change decades ago, concluding that man-made fossil fuel pollution contributes to the warming earth. Then the oil giant shifted to undermine the very consensus its researchers had helped to build. When Exxon's C.E.O. Rex Tillerson admitted...
76) Generation Greta
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
They are aged between 12 and 24. They have grown up in a world with increasing droughts, floods, fires. And they share a common fight: the climate emergency. In spite of their cultural and geographical differences, nine young female activists are united under the same struggle: raising awareness about the climate emergency, fighting against the inaction of politicians, and promoting radical societal change, so that nature and social justice become...
77) Ocean life
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English
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"Provides information on how climate change affects ocean life"--Provided by publisher.
78) Breakpoint
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
For the last two centuries progress has been our reason for being; progress has provided us with better ways of living. But progress has also given us napalm, pesticides, nuclear waste and global warming. And progress significantly altered our planet for the long term. It can be measured in the atmosphere, in the ice caps and in sediment layers. In the last 40 years, the global scientific community has intensified research and warnings. They regard...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death...
80) The terranauts
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English
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"...Told through three distinct narrators?Dawn Chapman, the mission?s pretty, young ecologist; Linda Ryu, her bitter, scheming best friend passed over for E2; and Ramsay Roothorp, E2?s sexually irrepressible Wildman?The Terranauts brings to life an electrifying, pressured world in which connected lives are uncontrollably pushed to the breaking point. With characteristic humor and acerbic wit, T.C. Boyle indelibly inhabits the perspectives of the various...
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