greenhouse effect

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greenhouse effect

Al Gore

a wake-up call to global warming
Politician Al Gore has lent both his voice and his political influence in the fight against global warming.

Global warming

the threat of Earth's changing climate
Provides information about global warming, discussing the causes and effects of warming climates, and offering suggestions on how to reverse the trend.

The midnight sun

2009
New York City has become almost uninhabitable when continuous sunlight causes unbearable heat, rationing of water and electricity, and swarms of people leaving, looking for cooler weather further north.

Greenhouse gases

worldwide impacts
2010
Explores how greenhouses gases impact populations and ecosystems around the world, discussing agriculture, deforestation, the Endangered Species Act, and other related topics.

Feeling the heat

dispatches from the frontlines of climate change
2004
A collection of essays in which environmental experts explore how global warming is threatening ecosystem survival around the world.

Solar

a novel
2010
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Beard coasts through his professional life as his fifth marriage disintegrates, but gets an unexpected chance at redemption when he is called on to save humanity from environmental disaster.

You can prevent global warming (and save money!)

51 easy ways
2003
Presents fifty-one low-cost and no-cost tips designed to help individuals protect the environment, preventing the emission of more than 25,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year, as well as save them money.

Earth's changing environment

Compton's by Britannica
2008
Looks at how human activities have affected Earth's environment over the course of the twentieth century, discussing climate, global warming, deforestation, endangered species, environmental pollution, and other topics, and explores the need to establish new policies and practices for interacting with and using natural resources.

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