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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.68 MOWKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KIMHuddleston, Emma
Summary: Scientists study climate change to predict future risks so people can prepare. They also learn about ways to slow climate change. Studying Climate Change examines how scientists gather information from the air, soil, water, and ice to learn more about the changes happening to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.738 HUDDuncan, Dayton
Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways--no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 KELNewland, Sonya
Summary: "Read about extraordinary animal migrations by land, from the millions of red crabs that migrate at the exact same time on Christmas Island to the grueling journey of the pronghorn in North America. Interesting facts and obstacles are highlighted, and a sidebar details how humans impact each migration."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.56 NEWDavis, Jack E.
Summary: Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 DAVHilborn, Elizabeth D.
Summary: "All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years rapidly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees and other insects. The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent. As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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Summary: "At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 FRIHudak, Heather C.
Summary: "Read about extraordinary animal migrations by water, from tremendous upstream journeys by Pacific salmon to the extreme long-distance migration of the humpback whale. Interesting facts and obstacles are highlighted, and a sidebar details how humans impact each migration."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.56 HUDMoore, Patrick
Summary: "Awhile back it dawned on me that the great majority of scare stories about the present and future state of the planet, and humanity as a whole, are based on subjects that are either invisible, such as CO2, extremely remote, such as polar bears and coral reefs, or both. Thus, the vast majority of people have no way of observing and verifying for themselves the truth of these claims predicting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecosense Environmental Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MOOVogel, Carole Garbuny.
Summary: Looks at the impact of humans on the oceans of the world, including pollution, coastal development, overpopulation, and overfishing, and discusses the effects on the oceans and the wildlife that live in the oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.9164 VOGThomas, C. D.
Summary: It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In "Inheritors of the Earth", renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting back. Many animals and plants actually benefit from our presence, raising biological diversity in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 THOKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "Read about extraordinary animal migrations by air, from the incredible migration of the godwit between Alaska and New Zealand to the long-lasting journey of the monarch butterfly across North America. Interesting facts and obstacles are highlighted, and a sidebar details how humans impact each migration."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.56 HYDRush, Elizabeth A.
Summary: "An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998.9 RUSFree, Katie
Summary: "Book describes climate change and how it affects the animals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.68 FREFarrier, David
Summary: The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his medition on climate change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 FARVigliotti, Jonathan
Summary: Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. And many politicians, cloistered by status and focused always on their next election, do not yet see climate as a winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers / Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024
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Summary: "From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 MAREisenberg, Evan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 EISGoodall, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.9541 GOOStott, Nicole
Summary: "When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are allbound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. Stott knows the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOTT, NICOLE STODavid, Alex
Summary: "A book for young readers about how climate change is related to the extinction or potential extinction of many plants and animals."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020