nature

Presents twenty-four articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to the environment, debating whether there is an environmental crisis, pollution prevention measures, the impact of the American lifestyle, and American environmental policy.

Examines the world's ecosystem maintaining that human abuse to the environment is causing such irreparable damage that the planet may not be habitable in the future.

Examines the role nature played in twentieth-century American life, discussing American ideas of nature, the use of natural resources, natural disasters and weather trends, and other related topics.

Details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.

Contains sixteen essays that provide varying perspectives on the issue of how America's wilderness lands should be managed, discussing roadless rules, wildfire policy, oil and gas drilling, logging, and other topics.

Presents a five-volume series to environmental science for youth and young adult that contains over five hundred images, timelines, organizations and agencies, and over one hundred activities for students on topics such as earth systems, energy, environment, and creating a sustainable society.

Traces the history of environmental change around the world in the twentieth century, its human causes, and consequences.

Contains case studies that describe the causes and consequences of some of the world's worst human-induced environmental disasters, including coal mining tragedies, dam failures, industrial explosions, government actions, oil spills, terrorist acts, and industrial and residential toxic poisonings.

A collection of poems which deal with light coming from the sun, moon, and stars. Includes poet biographies.

An 800-year-old Douglas fir ponders the many things it has seen in the natural world as it hears the bulldozers coming, and then some people arrive to save it from destruction.