Children’s / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues

*Longlisted for the 2025 Children's Wrainwright Prize for Non-Fiction*Take a tour of 20 unforgettable animal homes: unearth polar bear dens deep beneath the Arctic snow, soar above eagle nests as big as cars and marvel at the remoras that make themselves comfortable on the ocean's deadliest predators.

Although the benefits of learning outside are well documented and more and more teachers are heading out (post-pandemic) to teach their classes, outdoor activities often decline as children progress through their education.

Although the benefits of learning outside are well documented and more and more teachers are heading out (post-pandemic) to teach their classes, outdoor activities often decline as children progress through their education.

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In 2007 only thirty Amur leopards remained in the wild.

Have you and your family eaten organic foods?

Have you ever shopped for fruits, vegetables, or meat at a local farmers' market?

Have you seen eggs labeled "e;free-range"e;?

School and community gardens are popping up around the United States, providing fresh produce even in the most crowded spaces in the country.

Vehicles such as cars, trucks, planes, and ships create much of the pollution in our environment.

Pollution from nuclear power plants can have extremely harmful effects on people, animals, and the environment.

Factories create large amounts of pollution when making their products.

Americans throw away millions of tons of waste at home every year.

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas create many types of pollution.

Everyone needs to eat, yet farming is a major cause of pollution around the world.

Do you ever worry about the environment?

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

Find out what a Galapagos tortoise has in common with a shingleback lizard.

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.

There's something fishy going on in the lake at Camp Dakota .

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.

Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes.

Did you know that the same wind that messes up your hair can be used to create energy?

Did you know that the sunlight that warms your skin on a sunny day can be used to produce energy?

Did you know that tiny atoms that make up all matter hold huge amounts of energy?

Did you know people can turn the energy in rushing water into electricity?

Did you know people can dig underground and use Earth's heat to make energy?

Did you know that most of the energy we use comes from coal, oil, and natural gas?

Panamanian golden frogs aren't just cute, little, and yellow.

How do you organize a big project?

What steps can you take to help the environment?

Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes.

Short-nosed sea snakes and blue iguanas are two examples of endangered reptiles.

Asian elephants and Mexican long-nosed bats are two examples of endangered mammals.

Oahu tree snails and pink velvet worms are two examples of endangered invertebrates.

Cape seahorses and speartooth sharks are two examples of endangered fish.

Northern rockhopper penguins and colorful pufflegs are two examples of endangered birds.

Hewitt's ghost frogs and arroyo toads are two examples of endangered amphibians.

As a child, David watches his grandfather, a Torah scribe or sofer, finish a Torah scroll for the synagogue.

Young Waluk is all alone.

Happy Tu B/Shevat!

Always busy doing good deeds like recycling, feeding birds, working in the garden and donating items to others, a little boy has earned the nickname "e;Tikkun Olam Ted.

There's something fishy going on in the lake at Camp Dakota .