Further Information

Books

Chazdon, Robin. Second Growth: The Promise of Tropical Forest Generation in an Age of Deforestation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Goldstein, Margaret J. Fuel under Fire: Petroleum and Its Perils. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2016.

Goodell, Jeff. How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate. Boston: Mariner Books, 2011.

Hamilton, Clive. Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.

Hand, Carol. Dead Zones: Why Earth’s Waters Are Losing Oxygen. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2016.

Heos, Bridget. It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change. Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2016.

Hirsh, Rebecca. Climate Migrants: On the Move in a Warming World. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2017.

Kallen, Stuart A. Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2015.

Kintisch, Eli. Hack the Planet: Science’s Best Hope—or Worst Nightmare—for Averting Climate Catastrophe. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010.

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. Artic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2015.

Morton, Oliver. The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Ride, Sally, and Tam E. O’Shaughnessy. Mission Planet Earth: Our World and Its Climate—and How Humans Are Changing Them. New York: Flash Point, 2009.

Simpson, Kathleen. Extreme Weather: Science Tackles Global Warming and Climate Change. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008.

Film and Video

A Climate of Change. DVD. Los Angeles: Participant Media, 2009. This documentary focuses on everyday people working to fight climate change—from students in India who protest the overuse of plastic to villagers in Papua New Guinea trying to save their rain forests to West Virginians speaking out against environmentally destructive coal-mining practices. Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton narrates the film.

“How Geoengineering Could Change the World.” YouTube video, 1:11:06. Talk by Oliver Morton, Town Hall, Seattle, January 25, 2016. Posted by “talkingsticktv,” January 27, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJ5ZE5WmNg. In this video lecture, science writer Oliver Morton discusses ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, including reforestation and fertilizing oceans with iron. He also explains how humans might be able to cool Earth by reflecting more sunlight away from the planet, for example by brightening clouds. Finally, he examines the challenges and potential dangers of using such techniques.

Human Footprint. DVD. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008. This film follows the typical American through a lifetime, chronicling that individual’s impact on Earth. The “human footprint” includes all the plastic and other garbage people throw away, the fossil fuels we burn, the trees we cut down, and the carbon dioxide we add to the air. The end result is environmental devastation.

Websites

The Canopy Project
http://www.earthday.org/campaigns/reforestation/the-canopy-project/

Sponsored by the Earth Day Network, the Canopy Project is working to restore ecosystems and fight climate change by planting forests around the world. Since launching in 2010, the project has planted more than 1.5 million trees in twenty-one countries.

Clean Technica
http://cleantechnica.com/
The Clean Technica website offers articles and statistics on alternative energy technology, including solar power, wind power, biomass, and electric cars.

Corals and Coral Reefs
http://ocean.si.edu/corals-and-coral-reefs
This website from the US National Museum of Natural History introduces corals, how they live and reproduce, and how they grow together to create coral reefs. The site also discusses how climate change is damaging coral reefs and what people can do to protect them.

Global CCS Institute
https://www.globalccsinstitute.com/

Based in Australia, the Global CCS Institute focuses on developing and testing carbon capture and storage systems, a technology that might be able to reduce levels of atmospheric carbon. The group’s website includes articles on CCS projects around the world.

Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
http://climate.nasa.gov/
This website from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration offers statistics on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, global temperatures, and the melting of ice in polar regions. The website also includes articles about climate change, climate-science activities for kids, and educational videos.