Hirsch, Rebecca E

Discusses the importance of helping endangered animals, including pandas in China, elephants in Chad, and right whales, and covers the importance of sea ice to polar bears and other topics regarding recovery and conservation.

"Why is the Earth's climate changing and what can we do about it? Learn what people around the world are doing to protect the planet. Discover the ways people are using clean energy, making buildings and cars more efficient, protecting forests, and more"--Back cover.

"Scientists all over the world are studying Earth's climate. Discover where and how they collect evidence . . . Learn how they make predictions about what the Earth's climate will be like in the future"--Back cover.

"Climate is changing fast, partly because of energy use. Discover how scientists and engineers are testing out . . . sources of energy and what to do to reduce your personal energy use"--Provided by publisher.

Science writer and plant expert Rebecca E. Hirsch presents fun and gross facts about a variety of plants along with explaining the science behind why they do what they do. Featured plants include the Venus Flytrap, an African tree that houses stinking ants to protect itself from hungry animals, a "vampire vine" that sucks nutrients from other plants, and fiendishly invasive kudzu.

Explains what heredity is and how genes determine the traits of people, animals or plants.

Explains the journey caribou take between their feeding and calving grounds, and describes their physical characteristics and behaviors.

"Climate Migrants explores the migration of peoples throughout the world in response to the effects of climate change, including droughts, desertification, rising sea level, melting permafrost, and severe storms. The book showcases people and communities that have already relocated because of climate change, and the challenges they faced before, during, and after relocation. The book investigates the cultural, environmental, political, and economic impacts of ecomigration and how they could play out in the next century"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces readers to physical maps, which show landscape features, land elevations, and more.