When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.

Examines the steps that have been taken to protect Earth's natural environment and the controversies that surround them.

In northern California, Julian Carter-Li and his friends fight to save a grove of redwoods from an investment company that plans to cut them down.

What can we learn about the health of an ecosystem through dragonflies? This title takes readers to our freshwater sources to see how pollution is disrupting the reproduction of dragonflies, how humans are to blame, and what we can do to fix it. Detailed maps Glossary of key words Index Reviewed Table of contents Animals can help us see the effects of climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction. Bioindicator Species takes the pulse of animals...

"When he hears residents of a Newark neighborhood are getting sick--and even dying--from a strange disease, investigative reporter Carter Ross dives into the story--so deep he comes down with the illness himself. With even more motivation to track down the source of the disease, Carter soon hits upon a nearby construction site. But when the project's developer is found dead, and his mob ties surface, Carter knows he's looking at a story much bigger--and...

Imagines a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discusses the challenge of handling our world's environment safely.

A U.S. senator convinced that the global environment is on the brink of disaster draws on the latest research on air, water, and soil pollution to develop a strategic plan for a worldwide clean-up effort.