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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"BLOOD AND EARTH is a gripping account of the deadly link between slavery and environmental destruction. Kevin Bales is a social scientist, human rights activist, and journalist -- and he's also one of the world's leading experts on modern slavery. In his work he began to notice the connection between environmental decline and slavery: the two almost always went hand-in-hand, whether in the hellish gold mines of Ghana or the miraculously beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change--accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Atlanteans Owen and Lilly navigate the frozen arctic hoping to find the Paintbrush of the Gods--an Atlantean technology that can reverse the course of climate change--before the evil Project Elysium does"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights. These shifting lines are only made murkier by the threat of global...
85) Flood & fire
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 22nd-century Cambridge, England, thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun must try to stop the strange, uncontrollable robots that were activated when a sinister-looking chip in her hand-held computer triggered a false anti-terrorist alert.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This book takes young readers deep into the complicated and often destructive relationship between humans and nature. Man vs. Animal brings into sharp focus issues that include habitat destruction, climate change, land management and introduction of invasive species--while offering actionable solutions for each both now and in the future".
87) Stolen
Author
Series
Heart of dread volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
℗♭2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nat risked her life to reunite with her drakon in the defense of the Blue, but Wes, seeking his sister Eliza, is forced to rejoin the military, placing him and Nat on opposite sides of a war that could destroy what is left of the world.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Tipping Point for Planet Earth explains why Earth is headed for a tipping point, a change so fast, dramatic, and unexpected that humanity will reel at the consequences. Midway through this century, there will be more than nine billion people on the planet. Already we are using most of the arable land that exists and overfishing the oceans. Water, too, is becoming scarce in many places. The services that humans depend upon--like a supply of clean...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only for the few. Food will still be grown, but it will not reach the mouths of the poor. New medicines will be developed, but they will be inaccessible to many of those in need.' George Monbiot...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder-mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rainforest-and anyone who stands in the way"--
99) Before they're gone: a family's year-long quest to explore America's most endangered national parks
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead ... He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit...