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Discover scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies.
1) Scat
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Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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In Wild Things, Wild Places actress, author, and conservationist Jane Alexander offers a moving first-hand assessment of what is being done to help the planet’s most at risk animals. In short reflections on her travels to some of the most remote and forbidding areas, she describes the ways in which human incursions into the natural world are destroying wildlife around the globe. With a clear eye and a keen grasp of the issues, Alexander...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
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When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.
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Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon offers profiles of twenty-one conservationists and activists who have made enduring contributions to the preservation of Oregon's wild and natural places and its high quality of life. These stories speak to their courage, foresight, and actions-at times against great odds-to save places, enact legislation, and motivate others to cherish and protect the places that make Oregon unique. Taken from personal...
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Rescue princesses volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Princess Clarabel is a Rescue Princess. When she discovers an injured dolphin during the island's regatta she calls on her fellow Rescue Princesses to help. Clarabel is worried she is not as good as her friends with animals but she is about to discover she has a special gift.
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Language
English
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To be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending, arguing, acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But let's be honest: hedging has never inspired anyone. So what if we stopped hedging? What if we grounded our efforts to solve environmental problems in hope instead, and let nature make our case for us? That's what George Monbiot does in Feral, a lyrical,...
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Series
Rescue princesses volume 1
Language
English
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Princess Emily wishes that she wasn't just an ordinary princess and one day she got her wish, someone was plotting to hurt the deer. So Princess Emily and her new friends set out to save the deer.
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Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Language
English
Description
Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the...
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
African savanna elephants are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent species. But savanna elephant populations across Africa are being decimated, with two to three murdered every hour for their ivory. This collection provides an homage to these animals and a clarion call for their preservation. Amazing photographs of the elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their...
17) Once & future giants: what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Discusses the mass extinction of megafauna during the Pleistocene era and what could have caused the event, and looks at the descendants of megafauna living on the Earth today.
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Pandas in the Wild offers a first-hand, in-depth exploration into the panda's intriguing and unique life, the many problems that face the species, and the international effort that is being made to conserve their natural habitat. A vivid compilation of rare photographs and insightful texts written by the foremost scholars offer a new, sharper lens through which to view these majestic creatures.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement--told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to...
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