biodiversity

"When a Purple flower suddenly sprouts next to a Blue, all sorts of confusion ensues. Fortunately, Momma Blue is there to remind everyone about the beauty of diversity, including how the wind, rain, sun and bees treat all flowers the same regardless of the color of their petals or the size of their stems. Award-winning author Julia Cook shares a timely and valuable lesson about appreciating differences and embracing diversity in life and in friendships"--Provided by publisher.

A fictional coyote decides to journey throughthe winter night on a 500-mile odyssey, enduring extreme cold, hunger, and harrowing brushes with death.

Explores biodiversity, and shows what happens when one link falls out of nature's chain. Features an interactive question-and-answer format and hands-on activities.

Two teams play an interactive game featuring randomized questions that test knowledge of life science topics, such as biological diversity and adaptation, covered in "Bill Nye the science guy" programs. Features clips from the programs. Questions correlate to national and regional science standards.

Examines the relationships between living things, focusing on the interdependency of animals, with specific examples.

Few sciences have been as much in the news as this one, which is concerned with the health of our planet.

Providing explanations of the damage done by invasive species and solutions to their spread, readers discover the delicate nature of the habitats they live in.

Contains more than one hundred fifty alphabetically arranged entries that examine the diversity of plant and animal life on Earth.

In an era of climate change and widespread ecological damage, it is absolutely crucial that we find ways to help nature regenerate. Embracing the new ecology, Pearce shows us, is our best chance. To be an environmentalist in the twenty-first century means celebrating nature's wildness and capacity for change.