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3) Groundglass
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Groundglass takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of US Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of a cancer with known environmental risk factors, Savage...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Laskarises' relocation to Wilford Island, Florida, is a big key change for Mimi ... Then her science teacher, Ms. Miller, shows her class a TED Talk by Melati and Isabel Wijsen. At ages twelve and ten, they lobbied to ban single-use plastic bags on their home island of Bali--and won. Their story strikes a chord for Mimi. She's twelve. Could a kid like her make such a big change in a place that she's not yet sure feels like home?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. The world became overgrown, creating enough pollen to render the air unbreathable. In the decade since the event known as the Turning, humanity has rebuilt, and Izabel has gotten used to the airtight domes that now contain her life. She raises her young daughter, Cami, and attempts to make peace with her mother's death....
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages)
Language
English
Description
Provides a four-volume set that covers a wide variety of topics, including endangered animal species, air pollution, national parks, environmental legislation, oil spills, alternative energy sources, and global climate change.
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages)
Language
English
Description
Provides a four-volume set that covers a wide variety of topics, including endangered animal species, air pollution, national parks, environmental legislation, oil spills, alternative energy sources, and global climate change.
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages)
Language
English
Description
Provides a four-volume set that covers a wide variety of topics, including endangered animal species, air pollution, national parks, environmental legislation, oil spills, alternative energy sources, and global climate change.
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 372 pages)
Language
English
Description
Provides a four-volume set that covers a wide variety of topics, including endangered animal species, air pollution, national parks, environmental legislation, oil spills, alternative energy sources, and global climate change.
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 2
Language
English
Description
Stella gets a big surprise when her mom plans a trip to visit their family in Mexico! Stella loves marine animals, and she can't wait to see the ocean for the first time, until she arrives and learns that the sea and its life forms are in danger due to pollution. Stella wants to save the ocean, but she knows she can't do it alone. It's going to take a lot of work and help from old and new friends to make a difference, but Stella Díaz never gives...
17) Polluted waters
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
18) Water pollution
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains ways water becomes polluted and some way to help keep water clean.
19) Polluted air
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
20) The wump world
Author
Publisher
Houghton-Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus.
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