Disaster Alert!
7 total works
Ages 7 to 14 years. Long periods of sweltering weather can scorch crops, cause widespread famine, and kill animals and people. Governments around the world are continuously developing plans to conserve electricity and water in the event of a drought or heat wave. The full-colour illustrations and photographs of will have children thirsting for more! Topics include: techniques to stay safe during times of extreme heat and drought; step-by-step explanation of how long periods of hot weather and droughts occur; famous heat waves and droughts throughout the world, and the damage that they caused; how ancient peoples predicted droughts, and the equipment that; meteorologists use to forecast these natural disasters today; the ways that countries recover from droughts, and the harmful effects of droughts and heat waves on our environment.
Ages 7 to 14 years. Humans are sometimes to blame for catastrophic influences on the worlds air, water, soil, and natural resources. This book probes the causes and effects of greenhouse gases, acid rain, oil spills, air pollution, and other human-caused disasters. Topics include: the human activities that are causing the destruction of the ozone layer, and the results of this damage: ways that organisations such as Greenpeace and Pollution Probe try to prevent environmental disasters; methods used to recover from environmental disasters, such as re-planting forests, re-stocking formerly contaminated lakes, and the clean-up of chemical spills; the effects of environmental disasters on our natural resources, animals, plants, and humans; ways that scientists predict environmental disasters, and potential disasters that have been avoided as a result.
Most disasters are caused by nature, but occasionally humans are to blame for catastrophic influences on the world’s air, water, soil, and natural resources. Environmental Disaster Alert! probes the causes and effects of acid rain, greenhouse gases, oil spills, air pollution, and other human-caused disasters.
In light of 2008's devastating cyclone in Myanmar (Burma) and hurricanes Fay, Gustav, and Ike in the U.S., this informative book has been newly revised. This book features the science behind these massive tropical storms and how societies around the world cope with their ferocity.
This informative book has been newly revised in light of the massive eruption in Iceland in March 2010. The skies over a large part of the world were filled with volcanic ash, affecting weather and agriculture and disrupting travel for millions of people for several weeks.
