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Adventures in Community Science is one part nature journal and one part call to action!

Take a magical ride around the globe to see the wonders of a single moment in a story illuminating our precious and fragile natural world. Our planet is always turning. It may be midnight in London, but in different time zones other living things are waking up, ready to hunt or feed or fight. As the clock strikes twelve, two sisters are spirited away on a journey to glimpse, in the span of a moment, extraordinary biodiversity: a mother polar bear and her cubs hunting seals in Svalbard, tiny turtles in India following the moon toward the sea, and enormous whale sharks gulping plankton in the Philippines. Quietly profound, this glowing tribute to the natural world?and reminder of its fragility?blends accessible science, lyricism, sweeping artwork, and a call for climate awareness into an ideal companion book for Earth Day, or any wondrous day on Earth.

"This fact-filled Little Golden Book is about Earth Day--what it is and why it's important--and offers suggestions for actions kids can take to help protect and heal our planet."--

Mujeres botánicas de todo el mundo han utilizado semillas diminutas para hacer cosas maravillosas, como crear nuevas medicinas y alimentar a sus comunidades.¡Las mujeres en la botánica anima a los chicos a explorar la ciencia! -- Women botanists across the globe have used tiny seeds to do huge things, like create new medicines and feed their communities.Women in Botany encourages kids to explore science!

This young adult adaptation of acclaimed geochemist and geobiologist Hope Jahren's highly respected nonfiction work is the perfect book for those interested in learning about climate change and how they can contribute to creating a more sustainable future.Hope Jahren illuminates the science behind key inventions, clarifying how electricity, large-scale farming, and automobiles have both helped and harmed our world. She explains the current and projected consequences of unchecked global warming, from superstorms to rising sea levels, resulting from the unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases being released into our atmosphere. The links between human consumption habits and our endangered existence are very real. Still, Jahren maintains that our ever-broadening science-based knowledge can help us counter these effects. The eye-opening information in The Story of More will help readers understand the path needed. If we collectively make informed choices now, Jahren reassures, our future can be as bright as we imagine it can be.

If in your everyday schedule of activity, you feel twinges of regret and remorse for the difficulties facing our great nation, then take the hour or so it takes to read Youth of Planet Earth: ARISE which provides a call to action for our nation's youth and all those who might help future generations to make for a better world. It is both personal for the author and generalized, blending political environmental and religious ideas on what the biggest issues are facing society. It's clear the author cares about the direction of humanity; and it's wellbeing, and this book is meant to provide some motivation to think about some issues we face and create discussions surrounding them. If you are upset about the violent weather, the senseless slaughter of our school children by insane people using assault weapons that blow the human body apart, the inability of our elected officials to govern effectively, and finally, if you yearn for "the good old days" when people assisted people with kind and gentle actions and words, then you need this book as it points the way to a better environment. If you despair as to how to make this happen then you need to read the sequel to this book, Youth of Planet Earth Are Rising. Dr. Storm describes a fictional setting at a town in Pennsylvania where school children become motivated and achieve remarkable results toward solving the problems described above.