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Hot weather is getting hotter while hurricanes, droughts, floods, and forest fires are increasing in intensity. Extreme Weather and Climate Change: What?s the Connection? explores the science behind recent weather-related disasters and explains the role climate-changing emissions play in the recent record-shattering weather extremes.
Extreme Winter Sports Zone takes readers into the action-packed world of snowboarding, snowmobiling, and skiing. Coverage of the best athletes, the biggest tricks, and the baddest courses as well as an overview of each sport’s history makes these hot introductions to these cold-weather sports.
The animals in these books look as strange as their names sound. Enter the weird world of narwhals, aye-ayes, star-nosed moles, and others in this series. Find out how their strange appearances help them survive in their environments.
Inspired by true stories that speak of love beyond colour and gender, this collection of tales reveals the unexpected adventures of seven special animal families. For example, Susie and Alberta are two mommy dogs that become inseparable after surviving a dreadful storm and start raising their puppies together. Carlos and Ferdinand are two pink flamingos whose biggest desire-to be fathers-is aided by friends who gift them with an egg for their nest.
Faiza wants to win the biggest boxing tournament in town. When the odds are stacked against her, will she be able to achieve her dream without the presence of her biggest supporter? Life in hilly northern India is not easy. Every day, Faiza has to scale the mountains to reach her school or to fetch water from the stream. Faiza doesn't have many friends or relatives who believe in her, but her dream of being a world champion boxer and the support of her only parent, her dad, and her grandma keeps
Fake news is not new but, thanks to the Internet and social media, it is spreading faster and farther than ever before. Fabricated stories are creating doubt and confusion and easing the way for the manipulation of public opinion. In some cases, web sites and news articles are designed to confuse people into thinking that they are looking at trusted sources and factual stories. In other cases, the label fake news serves as a tool for discrediting unflattering accounts or opposing points of view.
Fake news is a dangerous problem that affects everyone. It can undermine democracies, negatively impact public health, and destroy reputations. How fake news spreads, the problems fake news causes, how to recognize and keep from spreading it are discussed.
When the Earth disappears behind the moon, Collins loses contact with his fellow astronauts on the moon's surface, with mission control at NASA, and with the entire human race, becoming more alone than any human being has ever been before. In total isolation for 21 hours, Collins awaits word that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have managed to launch their moon lander successfully to return to the orbiter--a feat never accomplished before and rendered more problematic by the fuel burn of their di
During the Middle Ages, to make it easy for others to know your social class, rules about what you could and could not wear were created. These laws regulated things from shoe lengths to hat height.
From watery coral reefs to dusty deserts, plants and animals survive and thrive all over our planet. Explore what happens throughout a day in these ecosystems. From morning until night, animals wake and search for food, shelter, and even companionship. There’s a lot more happening than you might think!