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Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighty-three million dogs and ninety-six million cats call the United States home. Dogs alone produce enough waste to fill more than 1,127 football fields 10 feet deep in a single year. Add billions of plastic pick-up bags to the mix and season well with tons of litter box waste. Scoop a hefty portion into local landfills and seal it tightly to ensure optimal methane production. Clearly, this is a recipe for disaster. Dog and cat owners who trash...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Our oceans are filled with plastics, but who exactly cooked up this soup? And, more importantly, what is the recipe for getting our oceans clean? This rhyming story pulls no punches about how we ended up in this mess but also offers hope and help for cleaning up ocean soup"--
5) Oil spills
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes why oil spills happen, how they affect the ocean and wildlife, and how they can be prevented.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf coast, those who made a living by shrimping find themselves in dire straits. For the oddballs and lowlifes who inhabit the sleepy, working class bayou town of Jeannette, these desperate circumstances serve as the catalyst that pushes them to enact whatever risky schemes they can dream up to reverse their fortunes. At the center of it all is Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one armed treasure hunter obsessed...
Author
Series
IAEA nuclear energy volume Number NW-G-3.1
Publisher
International Atomic Energy Agency
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English