An introduction to how invasive species threaten local wildlife populations, the causes of the invasion, and what efforts are being made to reduce their impact.
Factual accounts of a variety of natural disasters that have occurred during the last 20 years including the 1964 Alaskan earthquake and the 1977 Buffalo, New York, blizzard.
Describes the experience of thirteen-year-old Dan Thuy Huynh and her family, recently come from Vietnam to live in San Diego, California, as they adapt to their life in a new country.