human influence on nature

Unless Amy and her friends in the Critter Club can come up with an alternative plan, new stores are going to be built on the town's park, endangering the lives of the plants and animals living there.

Highlights the pioneering scientists who set out to understand such simple complexities as how our bodies produce the right number of cells and how nature produces the right number of creatures to balance an ecosystem. Explores the scientific revelation that everything on earth, from our cells to every wild plant and animal, is regulated by rules that are remarkably similar and cohesive in the common underlying logic of life. Includes charts, maps, and photographs.

"A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together"--Provided by publisher.

This fact-filled, colorful look at the amazing world of frogs includes a call to action to protect these fascinating creatures.

An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it.

Examines the interaction between the environment and society, focusing on people's reliance on Earth's renewable, nonrenewable, and flow resources to meet the most basic needs for food, water and shelter.

Hurricanes, floods, volcanic eruptions, forest fires, sandstorms, blizzards, tsunamis, these are the many disasters that people face around the world.

A turtle carved in rock on a bluff over the Hudson River by Indians long ago watches with sadness the changes man brings over the years.

Examines the causes and effects of droughts, famine, and plagues and offers ways to reduce their impact upon certain societies.

Tells the story of a lonely man in southeastern France whose lifetime work is the planting of one hundred acorns.