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Endangered Oceans by Jody S. Rake
Offers facts about the world's oceans, and discusses threats to the oceans including trash, oil, overfishing, changing weather, and invasive species.
Exxon Valdez by Michael Burgan
Examines the environmental disaster brought on by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Highlights Alaska's history with oil, the clean-up efforts, and the long-term effects of the spill. Includes a timeline, text-related questions, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
The Pros and Cons of Offshore Drilling by Alison Gaines
Weighs the pros and cons, the benefits and dangers, of using oil gained by offshore drilling as a power source for a world with increasing demands for energy and electricity.
Save Ocean Life by Stephanie Feldstein
Examines the threats to oceans today from climate change, overfishing, and pollution, and offers ways to help.
Fresh Air, Clean Water by Megan Clendenan; Julie McLaughlin (Illustrator)
Discusses the right to live in a healthy environment with clean air, safe water to drink, and healthy soil to grow food. Explores important environmental rights court cases, and profiles young activists making a difference in the world.
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The Science of an Oil Spill by Andrea Wang
Examines the causes of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and explores how oil spills affect the environment.
Motion of the Ocean by Baby Professor
Provides an introduction to the ocean, explaining its composition and different zones, and offering facts for each of Earth's five oceans
National Geographic Kids WATER! by Lisa M. Gerry
Uses visual diagrams, infographics, text blocks, essays, photographs, and other visual aides to describe the importance of clean fresh water in the world. Explains why water is important, living things' relationship with water, causes of water scarcity and pollution, climate change's effects on water, the importance of the world's oceans, and conservation tips.
Dams by Rebecca Pettiford
Highlights the uses of dams and how they are constructed.
Going Blue by Cathryn Berger Kaye; Philippe Cousteau
Focusing on the Earth's water crisis, educational consultant Kaye and celebrity ocean spokesperson Philippe Cousteau present five stages of service learning – including investigation, preparation, action, reflection and demonstration. This informative and inspiring guide uses the story of Oklahoma's polluted Tar Creek to illustrate how this five-stage strategy plays out.
Planet Ocean by Patricia Newman; Annie Crawley (Photographer)
Explores the relationship between the oceans and the rest of planet Earth and how problems like climate change and pollution are harming the ocean. Profiles activists and environmentalists who are working to protect and heal the oceans, and highlights ways readers can help take care of the oceans.
Too Much Trash by Joan Marie Galat
Explores the danger human litter poses to animals in the wild, discussing different kinds of litter, where it comes from, and what young readers can do to limit their litter impact on the environment.
Endangered Oceans by
Offers facts about the world's oceans, and discusses threats to the oceans including trash, oil, overfishing, changing weather, and invasive species.
Exxon Valdez by
Examines the environmental disaster brought on by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Highlights Alaska's history with oil, the clean-up efforts, and the long-term effects of the spill. Includes a timeline, text-related questions, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
The Pros and Cons of Offshore Drilling by
Weighs the pros and cons, the benefits and dangers, of using oil gained by offshore drilling as a power source for a world with increasing demands for energy and electricity.
The Science of an Oil Spill by
Examines the causes of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and explores how oil spills affect the environment.
National Geographic Kids WATER! by
Uses visual diagrams, infographics, text blocks, essays, photographs, and other visual aides to describe the importance of clean fresh water in the world. Explains why water is important, living things' relationship with water, causes of water scarcity and pollution, climate change's effects on water, the importance of the world's oceans, and conservation tips.
Dams by
Highlights the uses of dams and how they are constructed.
Going Blue by
Focusing on the Earth's water crisis, educational consultant Kaye and celebrity ocean spokesperson Philippe Cousteau present five stages of service learning – including investigation, preparation, action, reflection and demonstration. This informative and inspiring guide uses the story of Oklahoma's polluted Tar Creek to illustrate how this five-stage strategy plays out.
Planet Ocean by
Explores the relationship between the oceans and the rest of planet Earth and how problems like climate change and pollution are harming the ocean. Profiles activists and environmentalists who are working to protect and heal the oceans, and highlights ways readers can help take care of the oceans.
Endangered Rivers by
Examines the importance of rivers around the world, showing how rivers provide food and transportation for humans and homes for animals. Describes the pollution and ecological devastation caused by humans on rivers and the ill effects they are having on river ecosystems and the world as a whole.
Humans and the Hydrosphere by
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Plastic, Ahoy! by
Examines what is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stretch of the Pacific Ocean that has become home to plastic and garbage from all over the world as streams and currents take trash to its location. Explores what the trash is doing to the ocean ecosystem and how we might stop the Patch from growing.
