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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Energy radiates all around us, streaming in from sunbeams and emanating from every object on Earth. Investigate the various kinds of radiation represented on the electromagnetic spectrum, and see how these forms of energy-assisted by the greenhouse effect-make life possible on our planet.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Shift your eyes to the sky and examine what happens in a higher level of the atmosphere called the middle troposphere. With this examination, you discover two new features in large weather systems-troughs and ridges that occur in areas of very low and very high pressure-and see how these features affect the weather.
43) The 11th Hour
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio presents more than 50 of the leading scientists, thinkers and leaders of our time-from all over the earth-to discuss the state of the world, of humanity and what we all can do to make a difference in THE 11TH HOUR. Climate change and the collapse of life-sustaining ecosystems are the challenges of our time. As part of a years-long global movement, Leonardo DiCaprio brings a film, a website and a world-wide effort...
44) Shored Up
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast, it was a wake up call to a new reality. SHORED UP takes us to the heart of this climate change controversy, following communities in New Jersey and North Carolina where politics, economics and science collide. Beginning 3 years before Sandy hit and following the debates over beach replenishment and other attempts to hold back the sea, SHORED UP is a convincing call for action along our coasts. As the...
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton narrates this inspiring documentary about everyday people taking action to save our environment and to fight climate change. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*...the movie is never less than stunning.*" - Daniel M. Gold, ***The New York Times***
46) War on the EPA
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How Scott Pruitt went from fighting the EPA to running the agency and rolling back years of policy. An investigation into the conservative political forces and causes, like climate change skepticism, that propelled Pruitt's takeover of the EPA.
47) Climate Warriors
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
CLIMATE WARRIORS presents people who show resistance against the devastating effects of climate change. They show that we need a fast transition in order to save the environment and keep the human rights in balance in favor of peace.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 120 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meltdown is an illustrated, middle-grade science book that tells the story of glaciers- the ancient, frozen landforms that are essential for the health of the planet. But all is not well: The glaciers are melting, faster and faster every year, and their disappearance will fundamentally change the world as we know it. Through immersive text, and rich, realistic illustrations, readers will learn what glaciers are, how they form, and about the vital...
49) The light pirate
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern...
50) Reef Rescue
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
If oceans continue to warm at the current pace, coral reefs could be wiped out by the end of the century. But scientists from around the globe are rushing to help corals adapt to a changing climate through assisted evolution. Follow scientists as they attempt to crossbreed heat-resistant corals, and even transplant corals' algae, in a race to save the coral reefs from extinction.
51) Storm stories
Publisher
Weather Channel
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 10 hr., 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weather experts and scientists discuss abrupt weather changes, global warming, and the drastic results (floods, storms, severe cold, droughts and wildfires) that could occur if the ocean flow patterns, which regulate heat, shut down.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nova explores the ways that scientists are facing the climate challenge.
Arctic Sinkholes: Scientists investigate colossal explosions in Siberia and other evidence that rapidly thawing soil in the Arctic is releasing vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the implications for our climate future.
Weathering The Future: As extreme weather in the U.S. impacts more people--with longer heat waves, more intense rainstorms, megafires,...
53) Entangled
Author
Language
English
Description
An feature-length film about how climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world's most endangered species, North America's most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both. The film, by the makers of Lobster War and Sacred Cod, won a Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films. It also won Best Feature Film at the International Wildlife Film Festival, Best Conservation Film at the International...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 2032 an eight-year-old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile metropolis. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected bond with a mysterious Inuk ice carver from the Arctic (Natar Ungalaaq), who helps him confront his past. Heart-warming and visually stunning, THAT WHICH ONCE WAS brings a human face to the climate crisis and celebrates how...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of Medium.com's Books of the Year 2017" "One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2017" "One of the Forbes.com "Great Anthropology and History Books of 2017" (chosen by Kristina Killgrove)" "One of The Federalist's Notable Books for 2017" "Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Classics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Strategy + Business's Best Business Books in Economics for 2018" "One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1523
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches...
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explore and understand the intriguing science behind climate change. Gain valuable knowledge on why climate change is occurring - one of the planet's most challenging issues - and analyze possible solutions"--
59) This good Earth
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With increasing damage to ecosystems from the climate crisis and growing mental and physical damage to billions of people, this film offers answers to how change can happen and points the finger at those standing in the way.
60) Planetwatch
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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