Climate Change Impact: Air and Water Quality: ISBN: 978-1-6782-0778-6 / eBook: 978-1-6782-0779-3
Climate Change Impact: Communities at Risk: ISBN: 978-1-6782-0824-0 / eBook: 978-1-6782-0825-7
Climate Change Impact: Ecosystems: ISBN: 978-1-6782-0826-4 / eBook: 978-1-6782-0827-1
Climate Change Impact: Human Health: ISBN: 978-1-6782-0828-8 / eBook: 978-1-6782-0829-5
Climate Change Impact: Wildfires: ISBN: 978-1-6782-0830-1 / eBook: 978-1-6782-0831-8
Booklist, March 1, 2025

The Climate Change Impact series offers up-to-date facts, compelling images, and relevant anecdotes backed by insights from climate scientists, experts, policy makers, and government organizations. Air and Water Quality examines the threats to our planet’s air and water, including from wildfires, burning fossil fuels, ocean acidification, and groundwater pollution. Communities at Risk explores the impact of extreme weather events and rising sea levels, highlighting displaced and vulnerable communities as well as how adaptation and mitigation can reduce environmental damage. Ecosystems delves into the effects of rising temperatures on plants, animals, and ecological biomes, showing that climate change impacts all living things, not just humans. Wildfires focuses on how climate change fuels the increase in dangerous wildfires, a timely topic given the recent large-scale wildfire devastation in California. Each title concludes with a chapter on potential solutions to the climate crisis, such as activism, legislative change, lifestyle adjustments, scientific best practices, and innovative ideas for cleanup. The back matter includes source notes, suggestions for further research, and an index. This series is a great addition for those seeking updated, research-based titles on climate-change impacts tailored to young adults. —Rachel Chapman

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