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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Clean air is important for life on Earth. In the past few hundred years, the quality of air in Earth's atmosphere has become a problem. Toxic chemicals, gases, and smoke particles from factories and cars pollute the air. This is called air pollution. Find out more in Air Pollution, a title in the Take the Sky series. The books in this series are designed to inspire young readers by introducing core concepts in the study of sky science.
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English
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Pollution is easy to spot: a soda can on the side of the road, an old tire in someone's yard, or flyers that have been blown into the park by the wind. But litter is just a part of it. Air pollution and light pollution are problems too! Citizen scientists are sometimes the perfect people to observe and measure it. In this volume, readers are introduced to many kinds of pollution, how they harm Earth, and ways they can get involved in cleaning it up....
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth--Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in "Visit Sunny Chernobyl," Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on...
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Series
Pout-pout fish adventures volume 8
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. Fish and an increasing number of sea creatures investigate, then decide how to deal with, a huge mess in the ocean. Includes tips for the reader to help clean up and protect the ocean.
8) Pollution
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Series
Publisher
Hungry Tomato Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Take an important journey around the world and discover how pollution is affecting our planet and what we can do to help! Poisonous chemicals and harmful smoke pollute the air we breathe and end up deep in our rivers and oceans, harming the wildlife there. Learn about greenhouse gasses and fossil fuels; crude oil and pesticides. Discover sustainable power sources and how they can help. A timely look at how we can use new, sustainable technology and...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment...
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth....
11) Someday a tree
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an old oak tree that has been poisoned by pollution.
12) Fed up!
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients and the biotech industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, Fed up! presents an entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This two-parter examines the huge project now restoring the Nisqually River, from its source on Mount Rainier to the estuary in Puget Sound. Led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, the restoration aims to fill the river once again with abundant, magnificent wild salmon.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the second part of this two-part special, Carl Safina goes to sea with some of the last remaining swordfish harpooners to experience firsthand one of the world's most sustainable fisheries and to find out why swordfish are the world's best big-fish comeback story.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lionfish are beautiful, colorful reef fish found throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans - that's the good news. The bad news is they're now found all over the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coasts of North and South America as well. Alien to those waters, lionfish are the perfect invasive species - aggressive, without predators, prolific breeders and tolerant of a wide range of conditions.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After local leaders launched a crusade to end the slaughter of Trinidad's thousand-pound leatherback turtles, the turtles were transformed from shark bait to tourist attraction. Now Trinidad's beaches support 80 percent of the entire Caribbean's leatherbacks and nearby villages make a great living catering to the visitors.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a two-part special, Carl Safina goes to sea with some of the last remaining swordfish harpooners to experience firsthand one of the world's most sustainable fisheries and to find out why swordfish are the world's best big-fish comeback story.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The conclusion of this two-part episode examines the huge project now restoring the Nisqually River, from its source on Mount Rainier to the estuary in Puget Sound. Led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, the restoration aims to fill the river once again with abundant, magnificent wild salmon.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is the remarkable story of how local fishing people in Baja California, Mexico, stopped hunting "devil-fish" - actually gray whales - and instead developed a whale-watching co-op that now caters to tourists from all over the world. They're also getting rich by setting fishing rules for themselves that are stricter than the government regulations.
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