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81) Climate crisis
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Examines changes in local and global weather patterns, the causes and effects of these changes, and what can be done to slow the harm being done to the environment.
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"Archer's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast 2nd Edition, is the first real text to present the science and policy surrounding climate change at the right level. Accompanying videos, simulations and instructional support makes it easier to build a syllabus to improve and create new material on climate change. Archer's polished writing style makes the text entertaining while the improved pedagogy helps better understand key concepts, ideas...
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"¿Se está volviendo el clima cada vez más cálido? ¿Se puede sentir una diferencia de un grado? Los niños quieren entender lo que significa el cambio climático. Con imágenes descriptivas y textos cortos se explican las conexiones: ¿Por qué hay diferentes zonas climáticas en la tierra? ¿Cómo afecta el efecto invernadero? ¿Cómo se sabe cómo era antes el clima? También muestra cómo nuestras acciones afectan al clima en la vida cotidiana....
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The History Channel answers the question: After 650 million years of climate change, is global warming simply a naturally occuring phenomenom, or the result of human activity? Arctic ice is melting, sea levels are rising and glaciers are shrinking at alarming rates. And the Earth is getting unmistakably warmer. But is this vast potentially catastrophic climate change the result of human behavior? Or is it simply the Earth's natural cycle of warming...
90) Ozone
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Discusses the nature and necessity of ozone in relation to the global environment and air pollution, and examines the greenhouse effect and ways to prevent it.
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It helps children explore the terms hurricane, tornado, tsunamis, and greenhouse effect. Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts providing them with a model for how to appropriately use the words.
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Después de Una verdad incómoda, Gore recopiló los resultados de cuarenta años de experiencia como estudiante, político, escritor, cineasta, empresario y activista para describir y explicar de manera comprensible las soluciones reales al problema del calentamiento global. Galardonado con el premio Nobel por la paz en el 2007 por su trabajo y compromiso con el medioambiente, Gore sigue con su misión de definir las cuestiones urgentes que debemos...
97) Red ice
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The Polar Regions are being affected by global warming much more intensely than any other part of the world. The global mean temperature has risen around 1.1 ðC since 1990, however in the Arctic it has risen more than twice. Global warming threatens to change that whole fragile ecosystem even faster than in the rest of the world. The situation is becoming more and more dramatic each year and we are approaching a point of no return. What would happen...