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"Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the Anthropocene...
2) 48 hours
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English
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"From the author of the smash hit, New York Times bestselling One Second After series comes a thriller in which the survival of humanity itself is at stake. The countdown is on. In less than forty eight hours, Earth will be hit by a major solar storm. At first, it is thought to be a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that will severely damage our world's electronic infrastructure. A crisis to be certain, but one that can be survived--until something far...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Milo's high school career has gone relatively smoothly, so he figures he's overdue for an Epic Teenage Disaster. He never thought that when Marcos returns to their Florida highschool for the first time since freshman year, resolving their feelings for each other will trigger actual natural disasters which could become an extintion-level event.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Katie lives alone in a stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone or something they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely greater threat has arrived, one so strange even the island animals are in a state of high alarm. Katie soon finds herself in an epic and...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future."--
"A vivid tour of Earth's Big Five mass extinctions, the past worlds lost with each, and what they all can tell us about...
7) Extinction!
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Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Rexamines the events that caused five of Earth's great mass extinctions.
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Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2015.
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English
Description
It's a mystery on a global scale: five times in Earth's past, life has been nearly extinguished, the vast majority of plants and animals annihilated in a geologic instant. What triggered these dramatic events? And what might they tell us about the fate of our world? Joins scientists around the globe as they unravel the mysteries of two of the most dramatic mass extinction.
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Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"In 2018, three species of birds went extinct. These species are gone forever, and many more species of plants and animals are in danger of going extinct every year. Scientists estimate that almost half of the species on Earth could be extinct by 2050. This title looks at the issue of endangered species and the impact that human activity has on the many plants and animals that share our planet. Colorful photographs, primary sources, and helpful graphics...
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Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about mass extinctions, including the history of Earth's five major mass extinctions, as well as the conditions of today's human-caused sixth extinction, which is the loss of animals from the planet. Understand the history of efforts to save Earth's biodiversity, what the most promising solutions are today, and ways in which you can contribute to these solutions. Detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting...
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Red Comet Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Every living creature contributes towards the richness and beauty of our planet. Each one has a reason to exist, from the giant panda to the pygmy possum, and if we lose them, it will be forever. Extinctopedia tells a complex story, not just of those who are extinct, but also of those in greatest peril, with explanations of what threatens their survival. It is also a story of hope-hope for animals who have been rediscovered, hope in the form of newly-discovered...