deforestation

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.

Text and photographs discuss the uses of wood, how wood is processed, how wood trash can be recycled, and what can be done to protect this resource for the future.

Describes the characteristics of a temperate forest and examines the reasons these forests are at risk and what can be done to save them.

Examines the crisis the world faces as a result of rainforest destruction, suggesting worldwide efforts that must be made and some things students can do to halt this disaster.

Discusses the problem of rainforest destruction, looking at the reasons for and consequences of this destruction, and what can be done to stop it.