Environment Nature

Cuando el petróleo se derrama, los trabajadores se apuran en limpiar la tierra y el agua. Pero los derrames de petróleo también pueden afectar a los animales que viven en la zona. ¿Quién ayuda a estos animales? En la Costa Este un equipo de Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research se apresura para llegar al lugar y salvar a la mayor cantidad de animales posible.

Your trunk stood out in a dark, mysterious and beautiful way, so I took a photo walking by today.

Exploring life on Earth has never been simpler.

Inspired by a podcast conversation between Stewart Hoyt and Heather Sanderson, this short book takes you on a journey from Ecstatic and Authentic Movement to envisioning new ecosystems, even in places that seem “unnatural,” like the concrete jungle of New York City. Stewart shares how the powerful connections we make with our bodies, our communities, and our own backyard create new ways of living interdependently. By offering concrete options that make practical and economic sense, Stewart highlights the huge potential of cities to be more productive and healthier than they have been in...

The Hunter’s Way is Craig Raleigh's meditative and philosophical journey into the soul of a hunter. Divided into four parts that mirror the hunting experience - the background, the preparation, the hunt, and the harvest - it addresses the paradox of hunting as conservationism, ruminates on the failures and successes of hunting as sport and as a way of life, and reveals how hunting influences our society.

Reduce, recycle, and reuse. We can all help Earth, if we choose. In this poem, kids learn about the differences between recycling, compost, and hazardous waste.

Why do maple and oak trees drop their leaves in the fall? What other animals share the forest with chipmunks, deer, and snakes? Hike through this book, and find out what makes temperate deciduous forests one of Earth’s treasures.

Al Gore has been advocating on Earth's behalf for 25 years. In An Inconvenient Sequel, he recounts and contextualizes the critical issues and moments in the climate change movement since the release of An Inconvenient Truth more than 10 years ago and highlights the real solutions we have at hand to change the planet for the better.

Follow along with this class as they explore a creek near their school in Pennsylvania! They want to learn about the water and its ecosystem, so they perform a survey to determine its quality and biota. What do you think they will find?

In this young readers edition of the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before.

A distinguished scientist reveals how we are losing the world’s songbirds, why this predicts widespread environmental problems, and what we can do to save the birds and their habitats. Wood thrush, bobolinks, the Eastern kingbird - migratory songbirds are disappearing at a frightening rate. Following the birds on their 6,000-mile migratory journey, renowned biologist Bridget Stutchbury leads us on an ecological field trip to explore firsthand their major threats, and reveals what a vital part of our ecosystem they are.

Escaping from a dying Earth, a young woman lands on a planet governed by sentient forests. She is hounded by an interplanetary corporation that wants to sell her as an exotic pet. As she flees from planet to planet she is aided by the forest Zollocco while she always, always tries to find a way to save the Earth. Zollocco is a story of the quest to return to a place that feels like home. This is the novel for all nature lovers who work to protect the earth from global warming. "I read this as an e-book over 4 years ago and the story has lingered in my mind since then. It is unique in that ...

It’s 1985. The Bellport Evening Star, a weekly community paper headed by its sassy editor Vivian Allegra, covers both the humorous and serious issues that regularly erupt in this small village. When she agrees to host a teen exchange student from Catania for a year, Francesca, who descriptively discusses her ancient home city and is hilarious in her observations of American life and who teams up with Black student Keisha with her beautiful Broadway dancer aunt for the upcoming Step competition, life starts taking off. Actually it does for all of them. These are three strong women who in ...

The climate crisis is wreaking havoc across the globe, raising sea levels, disrupting ancient weather patterns and decimating biodiversity worldwide. But new research shows that the warming climate is not just affecting the planet's physical systems - it is affecting us all individually too. In The Weight of Nature, the neuroscientist and journalist Clayton Page Aldern examines, for the first time, the seismic consequences of climate change on the human mind, brain and body.

In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park’s tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: They were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered until the following June. The White Death is the riveting account of that fated climb and of the breathtakingly heroic rescue attempt that ensued.

Exactly 100 years ago, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and cycling around the countryside of her native England and neighboring Scotland.

Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved while substantial progress is ongoing on others. The Optimistic Environmentalist chronicles these remarkable success stories. Endangered species - from bald eagles to gray whales - pulled back from the precipice of extinction.

Enjoy countless nights of fun by playing trivia games with your peers and loved ones - with this collection of excellent trivia questions.

This audiobook names and describes the offspring of a squirrel, toad, woodpecker, wolf, opossum, bear, mouse, and whitetail deer.

This forest is full of invisible lines. There is the line of the U.S./Canada border, which Mike needs to cross undetected with his rucksack full of shrooms. There are the myriad underground lines of mycorrhizal fungi connecting the trees into a powerful network. There are the lines linking Homo sapiens with nature, a web of interconnectivity and failed responsibilities. Mike enters the forest as one person and exits as another. Over two hallucinatory days, Mike must learn to listen to the forest’s voice. If he can’t hear its message, all of humanity will have to pay the price. The ...