environmental disasters

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environmental disasters

Fukushima disaster

how a tsunami unleashed nuclear destruction
Discusses the massive tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan that triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl accident twenty-five years earlier.
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Collision course

asteroids and Earth
Describes asteriods, and examines, in graphic novel format, the affects of an large asteroid colliding with the Earth, and explains what can be done to prevent such an event.

The tomorrow code

Two New Zealand teenagers receive a desperate SOS from their future selves and set out on a quest to stop an impending ecological disaster that could mean the end of humanity.
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Invasive species underwater

Looks at invasive species in water ecosystems and protecting native species and their habitats.

Invasive reptile and amphibian species

Provides information about invasive reptile and amphibians, including tegu lizard, tokay gecko, bullfrog, and others.

Invasive mammal species

Provides information about invasive mammals including rats, wild hogs, red deer, and others.

Ashes, ashes

In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.

Exxon Valdez

how a massive oil spill triggered an environmental catastrophe
The biggest oil spill in U.S. history that polluted the pristine waters of Alaska decades ago and killed thousands of birds, mammals, and fish, still haunts the people who are living with its aftermath. On Good Friday 1989, the huge oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil into the water-oil that would eventually cover more than 1,000 miles of shoreline. Cleanup began immediately but there is still oil in the sound and Alaskans say life will never be the same.
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Nuclear accident

Chernobyl Power Plant, Ukraine
2018
Traces the story of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in April 1986 that contaminated a large area of Europe with deadly radiation.
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Killer smog

London, England
Killer Smog: London, England traces the devastating story of air pollution that took thousands of lives and brought London to a standstill.
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