environmental degradation

Discusses causes and ramifications of environmental disasters using actual disasters as case studies.

Traces the evolution of the Native American environmental ethic, defining native ecological practices before and during early colonization, describing the Navajos' response to ecological changes in their land during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and examining environmental crises in the late 1900s.

Explores the environmental threats posed to the Earth's natural processes, highlighting issues such as land degradation, air pollution, and waste disposal that could permanently alter the planet, considers possible solutions to help protect the Earth's biosphere.

Argues that capitalism has caused the growing distance between man and nature, and suggests ways in which humanity should gain back what has been lost.

An illustrated introduction to the effects of climate change on each continent, with suggestions on how to make a positive difference and live with the planet, not against it.

As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.

In 22nd-century Cambridge, England, thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun must try to stop the strange, uncontrollable robots that were activated when a sinister-looking chip in her hand-held computer triggered a false anti-terrorist alert.

As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.

In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patr?n, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.

In twenty-second-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, piratical raiders kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.