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Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Shows Louisiana before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. Follows four musicians as they explore the culture of New Orleans. Focuses on the rapidly disappearing wetlands that are New Orleans' first line of defense against deadly storms.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water that flowed from their taps--but officials rebuffed them,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Chronicle of the author's search for hopeful signs that it is possible to save the environment, following his travels from his Adirondack home to the Brazilian city of Curitiba, to Kerala, a state in Southern India, all places where people are living less earth-damaging lives.
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting current efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot by protecting and managing this endangered species"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though...
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Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An aquatic ecologist and permafrost scientist recalls her captivating adventures across the Arctic studying climate change, her quest to find belonging and family, and her journey of faith in a world of science in this poignant, eye-opening, and hopeful memoir in the spirit of Lab Girl, Educated, and Finding the Mother Tree.
Katey Walter Anthony's enchantment with lakes began when she was growing up amid the Sierra Nevada mountains. Today, her love...
Publisher
Otago University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of Environmental Histories of New Zealand, first published in 2002, brimming with new content and fresh insights into the causes and nature of this transformation, and the new landscapes and places that...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follow the great Colorado River as it reveals the most pressing environmental story of our time, the world's growing shortage of fresh water. Join environmental advocates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Wade Davis as they travel the Grand Canyon.
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film goes beyond the news headlines to spotlight the impact of the devastating water contamination crisis on the people of Flint, Michigan. The film highlights the stories of residents who were personally injured, along with the work of local organizations and individuals that rallied to support them. Flint is a city of 100,000 people, with 41% living below the poverty line and an African-American majority. The city switched in 2014 to water...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and...
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--
"For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary...
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