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3) Wild weather
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Introduces various extreme weather conditions, including tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, blizzards, tsunamis, and droughts.
4) Wild weather
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Introduces various extreme weather conditions, including lightening, tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, blizzards, floods, heat waves, and droughts.
5) Weather
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Weather is packed with up-to-the-minute information about what happens and why. Eyewitness accounts from around the globe tell you how it really feels to get caught in the world's worst weather.
10) Climate change
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Explores the rise and continuing problem of climate change and why it seems to be taking so long for world governments to enact effective change. Offers a range of possible solutions, including food and agricultural solutions, ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and simply inventing new things that help us adapt better to a changing climate. Includes photographs and lists of further resources online.
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Few places on the planet are immune to wildfires as part of natural forest life cycles. This program explores the phenomenon, from the outbreaks that hit Australia, California, and Southern Europe each summer, to the fires that devour the humid rainforests of the Amazon and Indonesia, causing havoc and creating environmental disaster. Witness fire fighters facing extreme danger, battling mighty walls of flame, and the techniques they use to extinguish...
12) Extreme weather
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Explores how global warming has led to extreme weather patterns around the world and discusses what impact extreme weather has on the planet and what can be done to deal with the problem.
13) Extreme weather
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Explores how climate change is creating extreme weather in the form of bigger and more destructive storms, and examines the effects of superstorms. Explains how meteorologists track and study the trends of weather patterns. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a glossary, and additional resources.
14) Extreme Weather
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Weather is uncontrollable. Over time we have learned to live with storms, heat waves, droughts, and prolonged periods of extreme cold. As this documentary explains, they are all examples of extreme or unusual weather-nature at its deadliest and most destructive. In March 1993, the US Eastern Seaboard was hit with a massive snow storm that became known as the Storm of the Century. Two years later, Chicago was caught up in a five-day nightmare of heat...
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"Everyone has experienced hot days in which it's hard to move without sweating. Readers will realize those days were cool compared to some of the sweltering locations vividly described within the pages of this volume. Death Valley, the Sahara, and Ethiopia are highlighted in text and on maps in this trip around the globe in search of Earth's hottest places. Why some locations are so hot, different ways of measuring temperature, and the health risks...
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Tornadoes are one of nature's deadliest forces, unmatched in fury, speed and destructive power. Over the centuries, tornadoes have wrought destruction on a huge scale and cost a great many lives. This program takes a look at some of the most devastating twister storms to hit the planet in the last 100 years. From the world's worst twister (which struck Daultipur in Bangladesh in 1989), to the most expensive tornado in history (the 1999 Oklahoma Tornado...
19) Desert climates
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The climate in a region affects all aspects of life. This book looks at desert climates. It explores the characteristics of the land and weather in regions with desert climates, and how plants, animals, and people have adapted to life in deserts. The effects of climate change and other developments are also covered.