Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the Climate Crisis (Orca Issues, 6)

Eriksson, Ann

ISBN 10: 1459826329 / ISBN 13: 9781459826328

Verlag: Orca Book Publishers, 2022

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the Climate Crisis (Orca Issues, 6)
• Verlag: Orca Book Publishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1459826329
• ISBN-13: 9781459826328
• Einband: Softcover
• Illustrator: Wuthrich, Belle
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

<p><strong>The climate crisis is the issue of our time</strong>.</p><p>Scientists have warned for over 100 years that burning fossil fuels and destroying nature will warm the earth's atmosphere and affect the climate in adverse ways: more severe and intense storms, prolonged heat waves, drought, flooding, wildfires, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.</p><p><em>Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the Climate Crisis </em>outlines the science behind global heating and its root causes, provides ways to take action and honors the efforts of the millions of youth and adult allies from around the world working tirelessly to make a difference. Their powerful message: do something now!</p>

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Biologist and writer Ann Eriksson is the author of five adult novels and two nonfiction books for younger readers: Dive In!: Exploring Our Connection with the Ocean and Bird's-Eye View: Keeping Wild Birds in Flight. Ann is a director of the Thetis Island Nature Conservancy and works for the SeaChange Marine Conservation Society, restoring nearshore marine ecosystems. Ann lives on Thetis Island, British Columbia.

Belle Wuthrich is an illustrator and designer specializing in books for young readers. Belle has contributed to more than a dozen books for kids, a number of which have won awards or been republished internationally, including the Montaigne Medal Award-winning Eyes and Spies: How You're Tracked and Why You Should Know and the Silver Birch Award nominee Eat Up: An Infographic Exploration of Food. She lives in Campbell, California.