climate change mitigation

As climate change continues to shape our planet with unprecedented calamities, engineers and scientists are racing to develop ways to prevent the worst impacts. This title reveals how their efforts are working. It features explanatory text that breaks down how the scientific and technological advancements are curbing or absorbing the production of greenhouse gases that are trapping the sun's energy and warming our planet. It also explores how technology is helping communities quickly adapt to our changing world.

This is a book about climate change. In this book, we share the facts, but we also share hope. Learn about the causes of climate change and how it is affecting our world. Explore the human impact and what it means to have a carbon footprint. Read about creative ideas for tackling the climate crisis. Be inspired by the positive stories from young change makers around the globe. Get tips on how to take actions and reduce your carbon footprint. Our planet needs us, and we need our planet.

"A unique . . . approach to understanding climate change with practical actions to help protect the planet"--Provided by publisher.

"An exploration of seaweed's role in marine ecosystems and climate change solutions"--Provided by the publisher.

"Drawing on over 1,000 data points, the book uses cartoons, quotes, illustrations, tables, histories, and articles to lay out carbon's impact on our food system, ocean acidity, agriculture, energy, biodiversity, extreme weather events, the economy, human health, and best and worst-case scenarios"--Provided by publisher.

Year of No Garbage Is Super Size Me Meets the Environmental Movement, Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Convincing her husband and two daughters to go along with her, Schaub attempts the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all. For an entire year. And-as it turns out-during a pandemic. In the process, Schaub learns more than she bargained for: that modern recycling is broken, and single stream recycling is a lie. That flushable wipes aren't flushable and compostables aren't compostable. That plastic drives climate change, fosters racism, and is poisoning the environment and our bodies at alarming rates as microplastics are being found everywhere, from the top of Mount Everest to the placentas of unborn babies. This startling and fact-filled memoir is for everyone who wants to decrease their personal garbage footprint but would rather Eve do it first and tell you how.

"Meet fourteen scientists working to combat climate change--in fourteen different ways. This book informs young readers and gives them the tools they need to make a difference"--Provided by publisher.

"This book explores the crisis of climate change, highlighting its causes, effects, and solutions, as well as the debates and challenges related to climate change that remain today"--Provided by publisher.

"A . . . citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate--and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action"--Publisher.

"Five . . . unbroken forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering seacoast to Canada's Atlantic coast; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America's bulge; the Congo, occupying Africa's wet equatorial middle and parts of six nations; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California. These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate, economist John W. Reid and . . . biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in [this book]. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere, and saving them constitutes the fastest, most affordable way to start addressing our planet's most formidable ongoing crisis. [This book] offers practical solutions--from supporting Indigenous forest stewards to planning smarter roads--in a . . . call to action for the planet"--Provided by publisher.