Let's look at Earth. Let's look at oceans and rivers, mountains and forests. Earth is amazing, and it has lots of amazing places. Where is it hot on Earth? Where is it cold on Earth? Where can we find water on Earth?
Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educatlonal content, with activities and project work.
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . .
Haunted by a ghost from the future, Shilly and her man'kin allies are drawn into the snowbound mountains on a mission to save the world. Yod, trapped by the Castillo twins in the Void Beneath, may finally be close to breaking free. Hard on Shilly's heels are Sal and his father, and an uneasy alliance of Sky Wardens, Panic, and foresters. The stakes are high. Strange and ancient forces struggle for ascendancy, including the glast and a dragon with its own agenda. If the Goddess rises from her Tomb the fate of the Ice Eaters will be sealed, and they will kill anyone who tries to get in their way...
Bill Nye discusses the forces that affect the surface of the Earth in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Rocks & Soil. He explains that any of these forces can be violent, as in earthquakes and volcano eruptions, while some transform the Earth over a long period of time. The Science Guy looks at the inner workings of the Earth, and tells how rocks break down to help form soil. Nye inserts his usual trademark humor and parody into the scientific discussion to create a fun learning atmosphere.
The world ends, and the only ones left to rule are the sysadmins who were safe from the attacks in their server rooms. “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth,” - a new story about an apocalypse that arrives on the heels of a catastrophic Internet worm. When the trump sounds, the world’s systems administrators are all in their sealed data-centers, and so they survive the carnage.
