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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In his beloved book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate. Now, in The Power of Trees, he turns to their future, with a searing critique of forestry management, tree planting, and the exploitation of old growth forests. As human-caused climate change devastates the planet, forests play a critical role in keeping it habitable. While politicians and business...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
Three new girls are joining the Dragon Girls! Mei, Aisha, and Quinn are Treasure Dragon Girls. They draw on the power of precious gems to transform into mighty dragons. Tasked with keeping the Magic Forest safe from harm, the Treasure Dragon Girls must come together as a team, embrace their amazing new abilities, and save the day! Mei must lead her friends in a quest to find the ancient and powerful Forest Book. Inside its pages is the entire history...
Author
Language
English
Description
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the need to conserve the rain forests because of their wealth of plant and animal life, effect on weather, and importance to people throughout the world.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the efforts of a former alcoholic nurseryman, whose near-death experience prompted him to attempt to find the best specimens of the U.S.'s 872 known species of trees and use them to propagate their offspring around the world.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
There's magic in the rainforest and it's called FernGully! Deep in the heart of the forest awaits a paradise filled with tiny sprites, winged fairies, and tree spirits who all live in joyful harmony. But when their home is threatened by humans, one courageous sprite gives her all to save it!
16) Rainforests
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Find out what a rainforest is and what kinds of plants and animals call the rainforests home"--
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
447 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity--but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America's Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines,...
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