environmental degradation

"In this personal . . . essay, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and his activism to show that climate change is a human issue that can't be ignored"--Provided by publisher.

Ahab Goldstein is a seventh-grader living in an United States (specifically Maine) where the environment has turned toxic, and the corrupt Environmental Police Force is in control, limiting access to natural resources like gas and water, issuing fines, and transporting "fragile" species (pretty much all of them) to the Center for Species Rehabilitation in New Arcadia (a dubious refuge at best); so when Ahab and his friends find a real live bullfrog on an island in the toxic harbor, possibly the last one in America, they are faced with a choice--turn it over (NO!), leave it alone, or bike to Canada to find it a mate.

Provides an overview of twenty of the most urgent and important global problems of the twenty-first century and offers a twenty-year plan which may solve them.

"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar,an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for oneof her endless series of environmental protests: attempts atatonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violenttimber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the criesof an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades"--Provided by publisher.

Elite party girl Yarrow, the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden, and Rowan, whose very existence is illegal, discover threads that bind them and could change Eden forever.

"Many people are familiar with the growing effects of climate change on the environment and the physical health of the world's inhabitants. Occurrences like severe storms, temperature shifts, and droughts are making it harder for many people to grow food or live safely. Now the effects of an unstable climate on the mental health of people around the world is also an increasing concern. Psychologists have created a new term for this: ecoanxiety. This . . . resource will enlighten readers about what ecoanxiety is, where it comes from, and what can be done to recognize, treat, and cope with it"--Provided by publisher.

In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patr?n, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.

Examines endangered animals, exploring some of the things that cause endangerment and what can be done to help.

Ash finds her stepbrother, Bly, in Snowflake, Arizona, where an odd assortment of neighbors--and soon, Ash--are sick from modern life, paralleling the planet's decline.

In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patron, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.