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006081
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India, Teri Press, 2008.
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46pGreen Spine
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Save Planet Earth
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Describes everything you wanted to know about global warming. It reveals the natural and the man-made causes for changes in the climate, the impact on habitat, and efforts of conservation.
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Phenomena: Natural and Mechanical
Habitat: Land, Air and Ocean
Conservation: People and Protocols
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8179931420 Hb.
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| 005987 | 363.73/SAH | Main | On Shelf | General | |
| 006583 | 363.73/SAH | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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013210
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New York, GoodPlanet, 2009.
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190pBrown Spine
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Addresses the issue of global warming and the international negotiations on climate change.
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9780810995789 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 013104 | 363.73874/ART | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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026785
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Hertfordshire, Millgate House Publishers, 2019.
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42pBlack spine
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The adventures of Captain Polo
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The central theme of the book, climate change, is arguably the most pressing global issue in human history but the facts can easily be confusing, overwhelming and difficult to understand. Polo's journey delivers some facts about climate change in ways you may have never considered.
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9789942402509 Pb.
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014826
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Chicago, Raintree Publishers, 2006.
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48pGreen Spine
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Geography focus
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Find out how weather affects our world and our lives, and what causes different kinds of weather.
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The world's weather
Climates and living things
People and weather
The atmosphere
Sunshine
Why do winds blow?
Rain
Clouds
What are weather fronts?
Thunder and ligtning
Seasons
Case study: Monsoon in India
Understanding weather forecasts
Weather hazards
What are hurricanes?
Case study: Hurricane Katrina
How is climate changing?
Effects of global warming
Case study: Arctic ice
Investigating global warming
The future
Further resources
Glossary
Index
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1410911128 Hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 014572 | 551.6/SPI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017709
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New Delhi, Centre for Science and Environment,
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27minWhite Spine
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CSE
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Hands On brings information on what entrepreneurs and individuals around the world are doing in the fields of sustainable enterprise and appropriate technology. In the last of Earth Report's series on Changing Climates, 'Hands On' takes a look at some of the new technologies that generate power from clean and renewable sources.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| N00223 | 333.79/CHA | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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020488
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Oxford, OneWorld, 2009.
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xv, 180pBlue and orange spine
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Beginners guides
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A valuable guide to the underlying science, the possible impacts of change and the political hazards now surrounding the debate.
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9781851686605 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I01722 | 551.6/BOY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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007254
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India, Popular prakashan, 2009.
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48pGrey Spine
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Endangered Planet
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The earth's climate is getting hotter and that is slowly starting to affect life on the planet. Read about what causes climate change, and what can be done to control it.
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The heat is on!
Understanding global warming
Taking earth's temperature
Extreme weather
What will happen?
What can we do?
You can help
Facts at a glance
The young actiist
Glossary and Index
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9788179914915 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 007716 | 363.73874/PER | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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027450
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London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
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695pGreen Spine
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A book that argues the role of nature and how it has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us.
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9781526622570 Pb.
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| 025176 | 304.25/FRA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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014544
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New Delhi, Oxford University Press,
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236pBlue Spine
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A collection of real-life environmental stories addressing the major environmental crises staring at us - From threatened ecosystems, disappearing forests, and endangered species to depleting natural resources, escalating pollution, growing population, and dangerous toxins.
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0198076991 Pb.
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| 014296 | 333.720954/RAJ | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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026200
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Global ocean
/ Strauss, Rochelle; Donovan, Natasha (ill.)
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2022
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Toronto, Kids Can Press, 2022.
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36pOrange and Blue Spine
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A comprehensive picture of a body of water that is much more than a vast habitat: the well-researched and accessibly written text details the global ocean's influence on the whole of the planet, as well as the often detrimental influence of Earth's human inhabitants have on the global ocean.
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Earth's beating heart
About the global ocean
An ocean of diversity
Rough waters
Changing climate, changing ocean
Warming waters
Sinking the carbon sink
A sea of trash
The plastic problem
A fishing frenzy
A cost to the coastline
Waves of change
Finding YOUR wave
Note to teachers, parents and guardians
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9781525304910 Pb.
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| 023967 | 551.46/STR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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004750
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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140pBlack Spine
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Over the next 100 years, climate change in the Artic is expected to accelerate, leading to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, which will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels.
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Global Implications
Vegetation Changes
Animal Species Shifts
Coastal Impacts
Marine Transportation
Thawing Ground
Indigenous Communities
Ultraviolet Radiation
Multiple Stresses
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0521617782 Pb.
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| 004848 | 363.738/HAS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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000354
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London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006.
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323pBlack Spine
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With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness - and with humor, too - that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. A highly illustrated fact filled book.
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0747589062 Pb.
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| 003332 | 363.73874/GOR | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | Reference |
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024844
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New York, Roaring Brook Press, 2012.
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32pLight green spine
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An island is about to be born - one that in time will become the home of plants and animals that exist nowhere else on Earth. This book is the biography of a Galápagos island, from birth, through adolescence, to adulthood, and beyond. It is also the story of the variety of unusual species that have made the islands their home. And finally this is about the process of sisland formation, species colonization and evolution.
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9781596437166 Hb.
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| 022680 | 508.8665/CHI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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001950
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New Delhi, Tata Energy Research Institute, 2002.
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78pOrange Spine
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Creates awareness about climate change and its impacts, and concerns for remedial action on the global threat.
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What is climate change?
What causes climate change?
Effects of climate change
Finding solutions
The world unites to tackle climate change
Climate change in India
Glossary
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8179930009 Pb.
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| 000372 | 363.7/SAI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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004941
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Singapore, Times Books, 2004.
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48pGreen and Yellow Spine
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Green Alert!
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Animals and plants depend on the Earth's natural resources to survive. This series takes a closer look at these resources and the human activities that threaten to destroy them forever. Each title in this series looks at a critical environmental issue, using case studies from around the world to highlight both current problems and possible solutions for the future. The books include lively text, stunning photographs and a list of practical ways in which readers can help to protect the planet from further damage. This book, Our Warming Planet, traces the causes of global warming and studies its impact on Earth. Topical examples look at how it has affected different regions, and the countries, organizations and individuals working to prevent further damage.
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Warming the Earth
Is the Earth really getting hotter?
Some places are hotter than others.
Masuring global temperature
CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING
The carbon cycle
What are greenhouse gases?
Natural sources of greenhouse gases,
Human causes of greenhouse gases.
EFFECTS ON PLANTS AND ECOSYSTEMS
What could global warming do?
Case Study - Bleaching the Great Barrier Reef
Plants and the warming planet
Case Study - The Sundarbans
EFFECTS ON ANIMALS AND PEOPLE
Animals and the warming planet
Case Study - The Rocky Mountains
Living on a warming planet
Case Study - Florida, the Sunshine State
PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION
World leaders meet
Fighting water
Storing carbon
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
New methods, new devices
What can I do?
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9812324948 hb.
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| 004782 | 363.73874/LIM | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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025886
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New York, Firefly Books Ltd., 2018.
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64pBlue Spine
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Gives youth an eye-popping view of what the Earth might look like under the rising and falling water levels of climate change.
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Earth Is Going Under
What's Driving Sea Rise?
What Now, Earthlings?
Miami Beach
New Orleans
New York
Nova Scotia
Lennox Island
Greenland
The Netherlands
The Nile Delta
The Maldives
Mumbai
Guangzhou
Bangladesh
The Marshall Islands
Kiribati
Antarctica
What You Can Do
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9780228100218 Pb.
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ID:
026617
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New York, Scholastic, 2022.
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377pDark brown spine
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When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.
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9789354713750 Pb.
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026336
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Gurgaon, Penguin Random House India, 2020.
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xvi, 215pGreen spine
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Protesting against dams, protecting tigers, hugging trees, saving seeds, making room for elephants, battling mountains of waste, fighting air pollution, coping with soaring temperatures-India and its people have shared a remarkable relationship with the environment.
From the Green Revolution to the National Action Plan on Climate Change, Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India chronicles the country's historical movements and significant green missions since 1947. Interspersed with lots of trivia, tales of eco-heroes and humorous cartoons, this easy-to-read account uncovers the story of a past with the hope that we will rewrite India's future.
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9780143450917 Pb.
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