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Ten-Minute Field Trips: A Teachers's Guide to Using the Schoolgrounds for Environmental Studies

You don't have to go far to get science out of the classroom. An NSTA best-seller, this book is ideal for teachers in all school environments--urban, ...

By Helen Ross Russell

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Global Environmental Change: Introduced Species

Human activity has introduced species to ecosystems around the globe. Some species are benign or even beneficial; others, like zebra mussels, fire ant...

By Environmental Protection Agency , NSTA Press

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Global Environmental Change: Biodiversity

This book uses Costa Rica as a case study because the country's tropical forests contain four percent of Earth's total biological species diversity. B...

By NSTA Press, Environmental Protection Agency

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Global Environmental Change: Carrying Capacity

Carrying Capacity addresses the ability of the Earth to sustain healthy populations of different species. Earth's human population, now past six bill...

By NSTA Press, Environmental Protection Agency

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Global Environmental Change: Deforestation

Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula contains some of America’s only old-growth forest. Its timber supports local, regional, and even global econo...

By NSTA Press, Environmental Protection Agency

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