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Books in Environmental Disasters series

  • Environmental Disasters

    Chelsea House Publishers

    Hardcover (Facts on File, April 1, 2005)
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  • Hurricane Andrew

    Ph.D. Harper, Kristine

    Hardcover (Facts on File, April 1, 2005)
    Presents and analyzes the significance and impact of various natural calamities that have recently occurred, describing the events leading up to the disaster, what happened during the occurrence, and the aftermath, as well as the overall effects on the environment and our ability to prepare for such disasters.
  • Love Canal: Pollution Crisis

    Nichol Bryan

    Library Binding (World Almanac Education, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Traces the history and eventual cleanup of the ecological disaster known as Love Canal, which resulted from building a neighborhood over a chemical dumpsite that poisoned the environment and endangered the health of residents.
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  • Danube: Cyanide Spill

    Nichol Bryan

    Library Binding (World Almanac Education, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Discusses the disastrous year 2000 overflow of a Romanian reservoir that held heavy metals and cyanide, pouring the deadly mix into rivers that feed the Danube and killing all living creatures in its path.
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  • Bhopal: Chemical Plant Accident

    Nichol Bryan

    Library Binding (World Almanac Education, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Presents an account of the 1984 chemical accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath.
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  • The San Francisco Earthquake

    Richard Worth

    Hardcover (Facts on File, April 1, 2005)
    Presents and analyzes the significance and impact of various natural calamities that have recently occurred, describing the events leading up to the disaster, what happened during the occurrence, and the aftermath, as well as the overall effects on the environment and our ability to prepare for such disasters.
  • Los Alamos: Wildfires

    Nichol Bryan

    Library Binding (World Almanac Education, Feb. 1, 2004)
    Describes the events surrounding the wildfire that raged in New Mexico in 2000 and the resulting debate over the policy of prescribed burning, or purposely setting fires as a means of forest management.
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  • Chernobyl: Nuclear Disaster

    Nichol Bryan

    Library Binding (World Almanac Education, Dec. 1, 2003)
    Discusses the disastrous 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.
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  • Exxon Valdez: Oil Spill

    Nichol Bryan

    Library Binding (World Almanac Education, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Describes the oil tanker Exxon Valdez, the events that led up to its disastrous oil spill in 1989, and the effects of the spill on the Alaskan environment.
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  • The Ozone Hole

    Jane Walker

    Hardcover (Stargazer Books, May 1, 2004)
    Walker, Jane
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  • Avalanche!: The Deadly Slide

    Jane Duden

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 2005)
    Discover why tons of snow slide down a mountain, destroying everything in its path, seemingly without warning.
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  • Vanishing Habitats and Species

    Jane Walker

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts Ltd, May 8, 2003)
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