Environmental Science & Ecosystems
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Career Quest — Library Bound Hardcover Set
From the Series Career Quest
From engineering to fashion, people have abundant options when choosing a career. But what education do they need to enter certain industries? What jobs are available? And will they be a good Read More →
Climate Migrants: On the Move in a Warming World
Around the world, from US coastal towns to island nations of the Pacific and the deserts of Africa, people are in danger of losing their homes. Some have already fled. Others know they are… Read More →
Exploring Environmental Sciences Careers
From the Series Career Quest
People have been working to study, protect, and improve the environment for generations. But careers in the environmental sciences have seen a dramatic increase in the past seventy-five… Read More →
Fascinating Fungi: Nourishers, Killers, Connectors, and Healers
From the ginormous, extinct Prototaxites to the web of mycelium stretching beneath our feet, fungi have always been all around us. Although scientists estimate that only 10 percent of fungi… Read More →
Forest Talk: How Trees Communicate
Trees are essential. They provide water, shelter, and food for millions of plant and animal species, including humans. They deliver proven health benefits, and they capture and store carbon,… Read More →
Fuel under Fire: Petroleum and Its Perils
Every day, people on Earth use about 90 million barrels of petroleum (oil and natural gas) to fuel cars, buses, airplanes, farm equipment, and factories; to heat their homes; and to… Read More →
Hothouse Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Importance of Carbon Neutrality
As hurricanes, droughts, floods, and wildfires are increasing in regularity and intensity, climate change can no longer be ignored. Melting permafrost, forest dieback, ocean acidification,… Read More →
Meltdown!: The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future
Japan. March 11, 2011. 2:46 P.M. The biggest earthquake in Japan's history—and one of the world's five most powerful since 1900—devastated the Tohoku region, 320 kilometers (200 miles)… Read More →
Ninja Plants: Survival and Adaptation in the Plant World
What can communicate but has no mouth, and can attack but has no hands? A plant! You might love the beauty and fragrance of flowers, but plants are far more complex than meets the eye. Some… Read More →
The Call of Antarctica: Exploring and Protecting Earth's Coldest Continent
“On this land of ice, where we are thousands of miles of ice and mountains, it’s really beautiful.” Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest, and most remote part of the world. No one… Read More →
Where Have All the Bees Gone?: Pollinators in Crisis
Apples, blueberries, peppers, cucumbers, coffee, and vanilla. Do you like to eat and drink? Then you might want to thank a bee. Bees pollinate 75 percent of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts… Read More →
Where Have All the Birds Gone?: Nature in Crisis
Birds are disappearing. Birds are nature's essential workers, and they are crucial members of ecosystems around the world. Hummingbirds pollinate our flowers; cardinals munch on beetles,… Read More →
Wildfire: The Culture, Science, and Future of Fire
Discover the history of large-scale fire and what its future may look like in Wildfire. Wildfire is a natural process that takes place worldwide. In dry conditions, a single spark can… Read More →