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While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock-- a band of genetically modified children who can fly-- are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.

After Little Critter learns about Earth Day in school, he does everything he can to help protect the environment and save the polar bears from global warming, but he gets discouraged when his Climate Control Machine fails to work.

Describes how the Earth's climate is being changed as a result of carbon emissions and offers a number of practical things that can be done every day to protect natural resouces and conserve energy.

Writing in plain English and providing easily understood charts and figures, Gregory Wrightstone presents the science to assess the basis of the threatened Thermageddon.

'Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift...

Former vice president Al Gore helps children understand the underlying causes of the climate crisis that are threatening the global environment at the start of the twenty-first century and explains what children can do to help reverse the damage.

"Arctic ice is melting, sea levels are rising and glaciers are shrinking at alarming rates. The Earth is getting unmistakably warmer. But is this vast potentially catastrophic climate change the result of human behavior? Or is it simply the Earth's natural cycle of warming and cooling periods that have occurred since the planet formed? The History Channel offers an in-depth study of the science behind this controversial hot-button issue" --dvd container....

This book discusses the future state of earth's climate, explaining how earth receives radiation from the sun and the atmosphere and how earth may have major problems in the future because of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide.

The author provides scientific evidence that the fifteen-hundred-year global warming cycle that has always controlled the earth's climate is the primary factor in the current warming trend.