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Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
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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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"When the seasons change and it’s time for a flock of sparrows to move on, a map made of stars guides their way. But when they reach the city, light pollution masks the map and confuses the birds. One sparrow becomes separated from the flock. A girl rescues the lost sparrow and decides to take action so this doesn’t happen again. She rallies a group of friends, and together they encourage people all over the city to help the sparrows by turning...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Offers insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global, and brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop systems-thinking skills for 21st-century life. -- adapted from publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls. In the winter of 1977, the town had record snowfalls,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Inter- and transdisciplinary examination into the 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Silverton, Colorado, when three million gallons of subterranean mine water, carrying 880,000 pounds of heavy metals, spilled into a tributary of the Animas River. Illuminates the ongoing ecological, economic, political, social, and cultural significance of a regional event." --
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Lupe, an impala with a flair for mechanics, Flapjack, a sweet young octopus with vision problems, and the other Lowriders are concerned about the pollution in their town, and the greedy Upscale Business Association's plans to tear down local businesses--but first they must rescue the migrating monarchs from a wildfire caused by drought and climate change.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After Lares, her brother Angel, and their friends Tome and Tyler gain magical abilities, they find themselves pulled into a secret war. The animal kingdom is ramping up to save earth--Planeta Blu--by taking on the global climate crisis and fighting pollution at the source: humanity. One billionaire oil tycoon has sinister machinations at work; to stop him, the globe's animals and a young team of humans will need to work together if they want to have...
Author
Series
Great Pacific volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"When fugitive oil heir Chas Worthington settles the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plants a flag, and declares it his own sovereign nation, the reality of the environmental catastrophe is only the beginning of his odyssey. From acclaimed writer Joe Harris (Ghost Projekt, Spontaneous) and artist Martin Morazzo (Absolute Magnitude) comes a sprawling adventure across earth's newest, strangest frontier!"
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