Lyons Regional Library

Examines the greenhouse effect, focusing on its complex causes and and potential impact on global weather, ecology, and economy.

This book introduces polar bears, describing their physical characteristics, behavior, reproduction, and endangered status.

This book explains how the Earth is heating up at an alarming rate and what people can do to reduce global warming.

Describes the problems posed by global warming, its causes, and how alternatives must be found to the fossil fuels that contribute to this problem.

In the final freeze of an Antarctic winter, green tails wave across a star-full sky, as if to farewell endless nights. If this world looks empty, look closer. Penguins trek across the ice to their winter homes. As the temperature warms, birds fly above on their long migrations. And with the advent of summer, beneath an iceberg, the sea is teeming with life. Ocean, sky, snow and ice, minute greens and giant blues, dance a delicate dance in this evocative...

"An examination of the causes and potential effects of increasing global temperatures, exploring how humans and natural phenomena are involved, as well as how people can contribute to a healthier planet"--Provided by publisher.

Examines global warming and the greenhouse effect, changes in earth's climate since its formation, the effects of these changes, and whether anything can be done to reverse them.

"After attending a climate march, a young activist is motivated to make an effort and do her part to help the planet... by organizing volunteers to work to make green changes in their community, from cleaning a lake, to planting trees, to making composting bins, to hosting a clothing swap and more!"--

A discussion of climate change, why it is taking place, and what can be done to slow it down.