climate change

Explores factors in climatic change, such as greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide emissions, looks at international efforts to remedy the problem, discusses whether human activities are contributing to global warming, and more. Includes teacher notes.

Discusses how tornadoes form and offers information on some of history's worst twisters and the devastating effects their powerful winds cause, including overturned cars, destroyed houses and snapped power lines.

In a future where climate change has rendered the world a land of always winter, orphan Wyn discovers that she may have the power to reverse the trend and save the planet.

Describes how people are adapting to the increase in severe heat waves caused by global warming.

Explores how science is being used to create sustainable wildlife habitats.

Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white half-brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.

Ms. Frizzle takes her students for a ride aboard the Magic School Bus and explains in an easy-to-understand manner the scientific facts of global warming and how it will affect the younger generations.

Scientists seek to answer the critical question: Can snowshoe hares and other animals with seasonal coat color changes adapt to shorter winters caused by climate change?.

Oceans explains how research under the seas can increase our understanding of climate change and biodiversity.

Examines the potential for geoengineering to help mitigate the ill effects climate change could have on the planet in the future, such as building a kind of stratospheric veil against the sun, the developing of photosynthetic plankton, and using unmanned drones to seed clouds to produce rain.