environmental protection

An introduction to earth and life sciences, which are critical to efforts to preserve the environment.

After Tanya decides to plant a tree for her Earth Day project, her only problems are getting the money to buy it and finding a place to put it.

Presents simple experiments and word puzzles that teach about the environment, covering such topics as habitats, air and water, pollution, conservation, recycling, and "green" living.

Maps and text portray the world's ecosystems, and environmental concerns, and includes positive suggestions of what can be done to help the planet.

Five-year-old Eli's enthusiasm for saving the planet gets out of hand as he continues to fill his room with more and more junk he intends to recycle.

As Miss Lois's class learns about ways to help the environment, Grace helps comfort her friend Mimi, whose favorite stuffed toy has gone missing.

Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce the earth's major environmental problems and suggest ways children can help.

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

As a Brazilian boy makes his first trip up the Amazon to the port city of Bel?m, he learns something about the river's many treasures.