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Plant Love
The Gardener’s Guide to Weather & Climate
The Dictionary of Science for Gardeners
A Change in the Weather
A Chronology of Weather
Hurricanes - Facts On File
Tornadoes - Facts On File
Blizzards - Facts On File
Droughts - Facts On File
Floods - Facts On File
Fog, Smog & Poisoned Rain
Weather and Climate Handbook
How It Works: The World's Weather
Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate
Megabytes: Tornadoes and other dramatic weather systems
DK Guide to Weather
How the Weather Works
Discovering the Earth - Earth Science
Discovering the Earth - Atmosphere
Discovering the Earth - Oceans
Discovering the Earth - Ecology
Discovering the Earth - Animals
Discovering the Earth - Plants
Makers of Science
Biomes of the Earth - Deserts
Biomes of the Earth - Grasslands
Biomes of the Earth - Tropical Forests
Biomes of the Earth - Temperate Forests
Ecosystem: Temperate Forests
Ecosystem: Deserts
Earth: A Visual Guide
Children's Encyclopedia of Earth
Basics of Environmental Science
Facing the Future
Oxford Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Oxford Dictionary of Ecology
Did you know that the papaya plant has 31 genders to choose from?
Did you know there are flowers that never emerge above ground?
Did you know that avocado flowers are female one day and male the next?
Did you know that scientists managed to germinate a 2000-year-old seed found in a jar in the palace of Herod the Great?
Did you know that the world’s driest desert is covered in ice?
Did you know it might have been climate change that sent Mongolian invaders westward into Europe in the thirteenth century?
Dangerous Weather - A Change in the Weather
Did you know that mowing and grazing make grass grow?
Did you know That Elizabeth I refused to enter London in 1578 because the air smelled so bad?
Dangerous Weather - Fog, Smog, and Poisoned Rain
Did you know that the scientist who suggested continents move was a meteorologist who died in Greenland?
Did you know that the first person to enter the stratosphere went there by accident - in a balloon?
Did you know that a Prussian scientist was said to be the second most famous person in Europe - after Napoleon?
Makers of Science, vol. 2
Did you know that in Iowa it once rained unopened cans of soda?
Dangerous Weather - Tornadoes
Did you know that a typhoon once saved Japan from being invaded?
Dangerous Weather - Hurricanes
Did you know that the word “gas” began as “chaos”?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was the first person to place the Gulf Stream on a map?
Did you know that a large area of the Amazon rain forest was once farmed by people who lived in large villages?
Did you know that in one winter nearly 17 feet of snow fell on Buffalo, New York?
Dangerous Weather - Blizzards
Did you know that an elephant owned by King James I and VI was fed on nothing but wine?
Did you know who invented botanical illustration and wrote the first botanical glossary?
