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"As human-caused climate change devastates the planet, forests play a critical role in keeping it habitable. While politicians and business leaders would have us believe that cutting down forests can be offset by mass tree planting, Wohlleben offers a warning: many tree planting campaigns lead to ecological disaster. Not only are these trees more susceptible to disease, flooding, fires, and landslides, we need to understand that forests are more than...
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DK Publishing
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2023.
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First American edition.
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Embark on the journey of a lifetime to 20 of the world's wildest waters! Explore each environment and learn about the people who are working to preserve them for future generations. Meet the creatures who call these watery worlds home and discover how you can take active steps to make a difference.
4) Cool caves
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DK Publishing
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[2023]
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Caves - dark, echoing chambers waiting to be explored! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the coolest caves all over the world - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Cool Caves is a beautifully designed reader all about caves - the biggest, the most beautiful and even one that plays melodies! The engaging text has been...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Discover the magical depths of the kelp forest, and all the fascinating creatures living just a paddle's length away-both over and under the waves.
A girl and her parents paddle into the bay. Over the water pelicans fly; under the water all kinds of sealife go through their daily life. Discover the magical depths of the kelp forest and all the fascinating creatures living just over and under the waves. - adapted from jacket and perusal of book
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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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English
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"With all its variety, expanse and wonder, discover how much there is to love about Our Blue Planet. Our oceans are home to the greatest diversity of life on Earth and cover 71 percent of the planet. With so much to discover, this book introduces creatures beyond imagination"--
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Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
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2023.
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English
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"The Kitchen Pantry Scientist : Ecology for Kids features biographies of 25 leading ecologists, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of ecology alive"--
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Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young...
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With life's ups and downs, Flowers in the Wild can be the prescription for you to help your days be more enjoyable. Explore feelings, reduce anxiety, and reconcile emotional conflicts when you purchase and use this book to answer a daily question, read an inspiring quote, and express your creativity.
12) Ciencias del Mar
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En las últimas cuatro décadas, las ciencias del mar han tenido un papel sobresaliente en la formación e investigación de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. El seminario de las ciencias del mar es un evento de intercambio de conocimiento entre profesores y discípulos que adelantan investigaciones en el campo marino. En este libro se reúnen varios de los trabajos presentados en la quinta versión del mismo, y abarcan diferente de ramas de la...
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If you love nature and being outdoors - hiking, smelling the fresh air, and feeling the warm sun on your skin - you will love this book! This little book is filled with activities to increase your enjoyment and understanding of the natural world. Not only will you understand nature at a deeper level, you will start to understand that you are a part of the natural world and it is part of you!
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Hay un montón de cosas que puedes hacer con el fin de vivir en un hogar respetuoso con el medio ambiente y tener un estilo de vida más verde.
Aparte de la adopción del principio 'Reduce, reutiliza y recicla", en realidad se pueden adoptar diversas prácticas de ahorro energético. En realidad, hay un montón de aparatos y prácticas energéticas eficientes que puedes adoptar con el fin de hacer que tu hogar haga un uso más eficiente de la energía...
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On a sunny day in May of 2007, my friend, Russell Wilson, who told me about a family seeing sasquatch just outside of town. I was immediately taken by the thought that they might exist, and I became obsessed with the idea of finding out for myself.
After four years of searching, we had found nothing more than one possible sixteen-inch print. I was feeling discouraged and was beginning to have the thought that it was time to quit when I experienced...
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Since 1975, the Foundation of the first Community, here is a guide to know Damanhur, a Federation of Communities located in Valchiusella (Piedmont, Italy). Founded as a social experiment of a small group of dreamers led by Falco Tarassaco (Oberto Airaudi), Damanhur is a confirmed reality in which just under a thousand people live, who use call themselves with plant and animal names, as a symbol of renewal and connection with nature. A multilingual...
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Es cada vez más urgente encontrar soluciones a la crisis ambiental. Aun cuando confiamos en los inventos para solucionar los problemas que generan el calentamiento global o las sequías, sabemos que poco han logrado las ecotecnologías frente a la magnitud de los cambios que auguran una inminente crisis climática en nuestro planeta. Luis Zambrano esboza en este libro algunos caminos hacia la sostenibili-dad y desvela las contradicciones de los llamados...
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El desarrollo de los centros urbanos y el crecimiento constante de su población ha tenido efectos notorios en la conservación de los ambientes naturales. La disminución de las áreas verdes y su sustitución por áreas habitacionales, escolares, centros de trabajo e incluso industrias ha ocasionado en las ciudades la pérdida de animales que se alimentan de las plantas que crecen en estos sitios. Los polinizadores son un ejemplo de esto. Con el...
19) Divergence
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Who have we become since evolving from our hunter-gatherer ancestors? While we may be under the impression that our lives have been made more manageable due to the myriad conveniences at home and in the work place, they're actually more complicated, stressful and dangerous. The First Peoples, however, have remained largely unchanged over the past several thousand years. As such, they want no part of our world. They are not seduced by our conveniences...
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Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, while mostly noted for grizzly bears, elk, moose, and other large mammals, also host a high species diversity of butterflies, owing to the ecosystem's vast area of pristine habitat. Many of the nearly 120 butterflies described can also be found elsewhere in the Northern Rockies, making the book useful beyond the artificial borders of the public lands. Illustrated with color plates of each species, “A Field...
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