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Down the drain: how we are failing to protect our water resources
By Chris Wood, Ralph I Pentland. 2013
An incisive critique of Canada's failed management of its water supply. In this authoritative review of decades of independent critiques,…
accompanied by many riveting stories of water management failures, award-winning journalist Chris Wood and Canadian water policy expert Ralph Pentland explore how governments have failed to protect the waters that we drink, fish, and swim in and that support every aspect of our national economy. 2013.La forêt tropicale en questions (Réponse à tout.)
By Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger. 2006
Un album brossant, sous forme de questions et réponses, un portrait des forêts tropicales humides ainsi que de la faune…
et de la flore qu'elle abrite. Années 2-4. c2006. Titre uniforme: Does it always rain in the rain forest?Farthest north: The Quest For The North Pole
By Clive Holland. 1994
The story of man's attempt to reach the North Pole is told using excerpts from sailors' journals, ships' log and…
other primary sources combined with the author's narrative. The adventurers' successes, failures, and the challenges they faced are recounted in these testimonies which cover over 400 years worth of adventure. 1994.All the wild wonders: poems of our Earth
By Wendy Cooling. 2015
For this celebration of our Earth, distinguished anthologist Wendy Cooling has chosen poems to make children look, think, and ask…
questions. Why are trees so important? How are motorways damaging our countryside? What can we do about rubbish? What can we do to protect our Earth for the future? Grades 3-6. 2015.Just cool it!: the climate crisis and what we can do : a post-Paris Agreement game plan
By David Suzuki, Ian Hanington. 2017
Climate change is one of the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving…
it. The problem itself is complex, and there's no single solution. But by understanding the barriers to resolving global warming and by employing a wide range of solutions - from shifting to clean energy to planting trees to reforming agricultural practices - we can get the world back on track. Suzuki offers a comprehensive look at the current state of climate science and knowledge and the many ways to resolve the climate crisis, imploring us to do what's necessary to live in a better, cleaner future. When enough people demand action, change starts happening - and this time, it could be monumental. 2017.Jungle islands: my South Sea adventure (Adventure Travel Books)
By Maria Coffey, Debora Pearson. 2000
Join Maria on her kayaking trip though the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. She paddles to remote villages…
which haven't seem outsiders in years, visits the Skull Island burial ground, confronts a ferocious crocodile, sleeps in a leaf hut, and explores the jungle. Learn what it's like to visit a coral reef 'garden', where the bathrooms are in the jungle, and what kids love about life in the Solomons. Grades 3-6. 2000.Keeping water clean (Protecting our planet)
By Ewan McLeish. 1998
Explains worldwide water problems, including pollution and shortages, and suggests ways to prevent future crises. Gives advice on how individuals…
can practice conservation at home and in school. Includes a glossary and resources for further information. Grades 3-6. 1998.Journeys of the great explorers: Columbus to Cook (The modern scholar)
By Glyndwr Williams. 2004
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world…
history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century. 2004.Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on Bering's great voyage to Alaska
By Stephen R Bown. 2017
The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history, lasting nearly ten years and spanning…
three continents. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. A true-life adventure story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity. Winner of the 2018 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. 2017.Buried
By Ken Wylie. 2014
A survivor's account of the avalanche that struck the Selkirk Range of British Columbia on January 20, 2003, burying 13…
members of two guided backcountry skiing groups, and killing seven. 2014. Uniform title: Canadian electronic library.It's the crude, dude: war, big oil and the fight for the planet
By Linda McQuaig. 2004
An investigation into oil, a super-powerful industry that the author suggests played a central role in plunging the U.S. into…
the war in Iraq. McQuaig claims that U.S. companies had wanted Iraq's "virtually endless" oil fields for a long time, and that talk in the White House about Iraq started well before 9/11. She makes a convincing case that the world has become dangerously dependent on dwindling oil supplies, which are at the heart of not only a great deal of conflict but also pollution. 2004.It's a matter of survival
By Anita Gordon. 1990
Gordon and Suzuki describe the signs of environmental crisis in the world today. They put forward an argument against the…
disposable and consuming lifestyle that is killing the fragile natural systems on which human life depends. It is a plea to take action and save our planet. 1990.Into the ice: the story of Arctic exploration
By Lynn Curlee. 1998
Describes the history of human exploration of the ice cap surrounding the North Pole. At first the Inuit people were…
the only people in this Arctic region. Then, over the centuries, various explorers came to kill animals and to try to locate the exact North Pole. Grades 3-6. 1998.In the heart of the sea: the epic true story that inspired Moby Dick
By Nathaniel Philbrick. 2000
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century which was the inspiration…
for Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick". The author uses a hitherto unknown diary of one of the survivors discovered in an attic in Connecticut in 1998 to tell the tale. 2000.Ice ghosts: the epic hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
By Paul Watson. 2017
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845--whose two ships and crew of 129…
were lost to the Arctic ice--with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Watson tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumours of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones--until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. Bestseller. 2017.I want to go green!: but what does that mean?
By Jill Dunn. 2011
Ice and water: politics, peoples, and the Arctic Council (History of Canada)
By John English. 2013
In 1991, eight countries signed the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy: Canada, the United States, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and…
Finland. This was the first step in the formation of the Arctic Council, which was formally established in 1996 to act as a high-level intergovernmental body to address social, political, and environmental issues in the Arctic. Indigenous peoples, who form a significant population in seven of the eight countries’ Arctic regions, are involved in the council as permanent participants if they represent a single indigenous people across borders. The author explores the history and increasingly important role of the council as the Far North assumes a more important place in international politics. 2013.I survived true stories: nature attacks! (I survived. #2)
By Lauren Tarshis. 2015
True stories of real kids up against terrible forces of nature. From the 14-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks…
of 1916, to the 9-year-old who survived the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, here are four unforgettable survivors who managed to beat the odds. Grades 3-6. 2015.Ice wreck
By Lucille Recht Penner. 2001
Describes the true story of British explorer Shackleton's attempted 1914 expedition to Antarctica. When the ship was caught in the…
frozen sea, he and his crew experienced an eighteen-month ordeal, during which they camped on ice floes and lived on an island. Grades 2-4. 2001.Blue future: protecting water for people and the planet forever
By Maude Barlow. 2013
Barlow offers solutions to the global water crisis based on four simple principles. Principle One: Water Is a Human Right…
chronicles the long fight to have the human right to water recognized. Principle Two: Water Is a Common Heritage and Public Trust argues that water must not become a commodity. Principle Three: Water Has Rights Too makes the case for the protection of source water and the need to make our human laws compatible with those of nature. Principle Four: Water Will Teach Us How to Live Together urges us to come together around a common threat — the end of water — and find a way to live more lightly on this planet. c2013.