Unstable Earth: What Happens if the Rainforests Disappear? | TheBookSeekers

Unstable Earth: What Happens if the Rainforests Disappear?


Unstable Earth

No. of pages 32

Published: 2014

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Great for age 7-13 years

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This book looks at the causes and effects of the destruction of the rainforests and asks what will happen to people, animals and the environment if they disappear. It imagines scenarios at varying stages in the future and examines whether and how disaster can be averted.

 

This book is part of a book series called Unstable Earth .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Mary Colson has written and edited books for children and young adults.

This book has the following chapters:

  • 1: Nature's paradise
  • 2: Marvellous Madagascar: inside a rainforest
  • 3: Lungs of the Earth
  • 4: Slash and burn
  • 5: Counting the carbon: 2050
  • 6: People of the rainforest
  • 7: Mining for minerals: manmade mayhem
  • 8: Black gold
  • 9: Trading trees
  • 10: Failing harvest: 2100
  • 11: Hotting up: the problem of global warming
  • 12: Climate change catastrophe: 2200
  • 13: Paradise lost?
  • 14: Glossary
  • 15: Further reading
  • 16: Index

This book is in the following series:

Unstable Earth

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