[PDF] Ducks Overboard A True Story Of Plastic In Our Oceans eBook

Author : Markus Motum
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1536227862

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Eco facts come to light as a plastic duck narrates this beautifully illustrated true story of thousands of bath toys that were lost at sea and swept to the four corners of the Pacific. If a shipping container filled with 28,000 plastic ducks spilled into the Pacific Ocean, where would all those ducks go? Inspired by a real incident, this captivating and innovative look at the pollution crisis in our oceans follows one of the ducks as it is washed away on ocean currents, encountering plastic-endangered whales and sea turtles and passing through the giant floating island of marine debris known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. From the author-illustrator of the acclaimed Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover comes a highly accessible and graphically stylish picture book with an ultimately hopeful message about environmental issues and the state of our oceans. An end map documents the widely scattered journey of the real-life plastic ducks, showing where they have been found, as well as facts about the ways plastic is affecting various parts of the world.

Author : Donovan Hohn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 110147596X

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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy world of Chinese toy factories. Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase, he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity.

Author : Markus Motum
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1536233250

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In his debut picture book, Motum brings the story of NASA's beloved Mars rover Curiosity to life in vivid color. Full of eye-catching retro illustrations, this book is sure to fascinate budding space explorers and set inquisitive minds soaring. Full color.

Author : Hannah Bonner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 142630546X

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Take a fun, fact-filled trip back to Earth as it was 430 million years ago. Then, watch as continents drift and oceans take shape. Watch out (!) as fish get toothier, plants stretch skywards and bugs get bigger. Soon fish get feet and four-legged creatures stalk the planet. Here’s the story of Earth in conversational text, informative illustrations, and humorous cartoons. Complete with time line, pronunciation guide, glossary and index.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 1997-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547562683

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When a violent ocean storm causes a crate holding assorted plastic tub toys -- including one resilient little duck -- to wash overboard, the course of Ducky's life alters drastically. This engaging story based on a real event includes an author's note.

Author : Curtis Ebbesmeyer
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0061558419

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Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment. Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never held a conventional academic appointment. He seized the world's imagination as no other scientist could when he and his worldwide network of beachcomber volunteers traced the ocean's currents using thousands of sneakers and plastic bath toys spilled from storm-tossed freighters. Now, for the first time, Ebbesmeyer tells the story of his lifelong struggle to solve the sea's mysteries while sharing his most surprising discoveries. He recounts how flotsam has changed the course of history—leading Viking mariners to safe harbors, Columbus to the New World, and Japan to open up to the West—and how it may even have made the origin of life possible. He chases icebergs and floating islands; investigates ocean mysteries from ghost ships to a spate of washed-up severed feet on Canadian beaches; and explores the enormous floating "garbage patches" and waste-heaped "junk beaches" that collect the flotsam and jetsam of industrial society. Finally, Ebbesmeyer reveals the rhythmic and harmonic order in the vast oceanic currents called gyres—"the heartbeat of the world "—and the threats that global warming and disintegrating plastic waste pose to the seas . . . and to us.

Author : Joshua Horwitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1451645031

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Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience” (PEN Award Citation). Six years in the making, War of the Whales is the “gripping detective tale” (Publishers Weekly) of a crusading attorney, Joel Reynolds, who stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound—and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth. “War of the Whales reads like the best investigative journalism, with cinematic scenes of strandings and dramatic David-and-Goliath courtroom dramas as activists diligently hold the Navy accountable” (The Huffington Post). When Balcomb and Reynolds team up to expose the truth behind an epidemic of mass strandings, the stage is set for an epic battle that pits admirals against activists, rogue submarines against weaponized dolphins, and national security against the need to safeguard the ocean environment. “Strong and valuable” (The Washington Post), “brilliantly told” (Bob Woodward), author Joshua Horwitz combines the best of legal drama, natural history, and military intrigue to “raise serious questions about the unchecked use of secrecy by the military to advance its institutional power” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Author : Shiper A. Choudhury
Publisher : Urlink Print & Media, LLC
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2018-12-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781643671598

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This is my first book and I am not a professional writer or author of any other book. I am fond of writing stories sometimes. Just popped into my mind and said to myself and makes myself write freely about fish so I started to get a pen and write. I started to draw some fish pictures and to color it. My daughter then, she was 6 years old named Sasha, started helping me with coloring the pictures I've drawn. So we started doing the drawings and coloring and we ended up writing this story about fish. Now my daughter is 8 years old and I hope kids will enjoy reading the book.

Author : Loree Griffin Burns
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618581313

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Describes the work of a man who tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents.