deforestation

Examines deforestation and desertification, discusses the human impact on forests, and explores sustainable development and conservation.

Discusses the life and work of the Brazilian rubber tapper whose efforts to secure fair treatment for other tappers and to preserve the Amazon rain forests resulted in his murder in 1988.

Discusses the dangers of damaging or depleting non-renewable resources. Potentially sustainable solutions for the issues are presented, so young readers can become informed and responsible citizens for a global future.

Focuses on the scientific, technological, and social impacts of plant and animal extinction.

Explores the role of temperate and tropical forests in the Earth's ecosystems, and discusses the threat posed to forest resources by pollution, development, and lack of careful conservation.

Introduces deforestation through overviews, primary source quotes, and color illustrated facts and statistics.

Examines the ecology, importance, and systematic destruction of the world's rain forests.

Explores the problem of rain forest destruction, discussing the importance of rain forests to Earth, the causes and effects of deforestation, and what people can do to save rain forest biomes.

Argues that mangrove forests in coastal areas throughout the tropics are being lost to hurricanes, shrimp farms, and land developers, at great ecological and economic cost to the native dwellers.

Discusses rain forest ecology and its worldwide destruction, using the Amazon Basin as a case study.