Rusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLSummary: Some scientific studies predict that as the Earth continues to warm, up to a third of all species could go extinct by the middle of the century. This ABC News program looks at the effect of global warming on non-human life-specifically two species of frogs that used to inhabit the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, in Costa Rica; three additional vanished frog species in Madagascar; and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Since the Industrial Revolution sparked the widespread burning of fossil fuels, scientists have concerned themselves with the climatic effects of carbon dioxide. This program spotlights milestones in the history of that research as it seeks to understand humankind's impact on Earth's atmosphere. The greenhouse effect, global warming, ozone depletion, the Keeling Curve, the Atlantic Conveyor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Based on Mark Lynas's Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, this program explores the theory that Earth's average temperature could rise six degrees Celsius by the year 2100. One poignant degree at a time, the consequences of rising temperatures on Greenland's ice sheet and Himalayan glaciers, tropical coral reefs and the Amazon rainforest, and elsewhere across five continents are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What exactly is a degree of temperature? How is it defined and measured in the strictest scientific sense? Will answering these questions shed light on the complexities of climate change? This program explores the mysteries of temperature and energy with engaging demonstrations and high-level expert commentary. Beginning with a visit to Britain's National Physical Laboratory, the institution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: What are the health implications of global warming in urban areas? This program examines the medical repercussions of environmental change and crisis in Canada. Environmental and disaster relief experts, such as Steven King of Sustainable Environment Management and John Saunders of the Red Cross, discuss the risks, including heat stroke and water-borne diseases, associated with rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The history of Earth has been a history of temperature change; people and animals have historically moved to better climes, richer pastures, and areas of more abundant food. The problem now is that "somewhere else" is already occupied; meanwhile, temperatures appear to be rising, with foreseeably disastrous consequences. The gases in the air which cause the greenhouse effect have made life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Earth's temperature is on the rise-and so are incidents of severe weather and heat-related health problems. This program travels the world to observe how global warming, accelerated and exacerbated by air pollution, is affecting society. Coastal erosion in Florida, the destruction of Alaskan forests by the spruce beetle, the depletion of Montana's glaciers, the decline in North Pacific salmon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Throughout the world, sea levels are rising, coastlines are crumbling, and the intensity of hurricanes is increasing. Is the situation in New Orleans a glimpse into the future of all cities that exist near major bodies of water? Filmed six months after Katrina, this program analyzes why New Orleans flooded so catastrophically and asks whether the city-constructed on a steadily subsiding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Despite widespread scientific acceptance of the global warming theory, it remains a highly contentious subject. This program studies divergent points of view contributing to the global warming debate, untangling a morass of political and scientific concerns and providing a wealth of historical background on the issue. Is the greenhouse effect as dangerous as theorized, or is that simply bad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Three billion years ago, bacteria polluted the atmosphere with a new gas, oxygen, and changed the planet forever. This new "poison" gas became the catalyst for life to emerge. But today, humankind is also creating new gases, along with altering the composition of the atmosphere by building dams and removing forests. This program examines the possible consequences of our actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Over two decades ago, the original version of this program depicted the effects of wind, waves, and tides on the coastline of southeastern Massachusetts. Revised and updated for the 21st century, this edition takes a new look at the problem of erosion along America's shores, emphasizing the impact of climate change and sea level rise on our coasts. Continuing its case study of Cape Cod and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program presents a comprehensive scientific examination of global warming and El Nino, while viewers travel to the battlefields of Waterloo, to Hawaii and Antarctica, and across North America to learn how complex, contradictory, and influential weather can be. Topics include the role played by weather in Napoleon's defeat, and the relationship of El Nino to underwater volcanic activity....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program presents a clear, forceful, and thorough exposition of the problems of air pollution: its causes; its effects on forests, streams, and human health; and the issues involved in correcting the problems. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the program shows the consequences of air pollution in Shenandoah National Park, the Adirondacks, New England, Ohio, California, Mexico, Canada, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Alongside the glittery promise of nanotechnology sits a Pandora’s box of potential concerns that range from worrisome applications like nano-enhanced surveillance devices and weapon systems to unintended consequences such as nanopollution and nanotoxicity. This program takes a balanced look at the debate over potential nanotech risks as it presents viewers with the informed opinions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A great many materials can impact the environment in a negative way-and while the by-products of manufacturing are a significant factor, pollution can also consist of discarded and post-consumer items. This program explores how pollution can affect the air, water, and land in the form of gases, liquids, and solids. Viewers learn about substances that constitute pollution, such as petroleum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: An excellent example of governmental and community cooperation in the face of long-standing legal enmity, this program explains how the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are working to eliminate hazardous concentrations of airborne dust from the Owens Lake lakebed-drained nearly dry to supply L.A. with water. The biggest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The weather-a phenomenon clearly beyond human control!-is nevertheless a topic of fascination to people the world over. A combination of high-quality film footage and detailed animations, this collection of 48 video clips (30 seconds to 2 minutes each) discusses Earth's atmosphere, precipitation, meteorology, climates, the environment, and pollution. Video clips include: Earth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins, ranked as one of the 2009 Time 100, believes in the plausibility of a U.S. that harnesses automotive and architectural efficiencies to free itself from the tyranny of oil-and, while the country is at it, from the dirty yoke of coal, as well. In this program, Lovins and his enthusiastic supporters square off against Robert Bryce, editor of Energy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Participants in the global cap-and-trade system range from well-intentioned business leaders to rogue peddlers hoping for a quick and unprincipled killing. As for detractors, the carbon credit industry has no shortage, especially in the environmentalist movement. This film sifts through the many-sided controversy as it plays out in the West and in the developing world. Dedicated eco-watchdogs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In 2007, the American honeybee population almost disappeared, the Northwest Passage became navigable without the aid of icebreakers, and China surpassed the United States in total carbon emissions. This program documents the most ominous environmental milestones of that year, providing an illuminating snapshot of the changing condition of the planet. Replete with fires and floods, migrations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: As a gasoline additive, lead suppresses engine knock. Lead is also a well-known poison, and yet during the 1920s it was championed over safer alternatives-and even backed by the U.S. surgeon general. Why? This program presents the history of leaded gasoline and its impact on human health and intelligence, most notably as documented in Herbert Needleman's controversial study of schoolchildren....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For thousands of years, the only threat to polar bears came from humans. Nothing has changed-except now it is fossil fuel consumption, not spears and guns, that pushes Ursus maritimus toward extinction. Depicting the hapless species as the proverbial canary in a coal mine, this program studies the intensifying impact of climate change on the Arctic region. Viewers learn how the entire Arctic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program presented by Sir David Attenborough discusses the thickening of Earth's carbon dioxide envelope and, using climate modeling, confirms that fossil fuels are primarily responsible for a global rise in temperatures going far beyond any normal allowance for cyclical fluctuation. Traveling from the Arctic, where the ecosystem is collapsing; to the low-lying islands of the South Pacific,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008