Environmental Health

Environmental Health

These books about environmental health topics can be found at the Morse High School Library. For more books like these, search the library's online catalog. Use the following subject headings:

  • Climate changes

  • Drinking water-Health

  • Droughts

  • Environmental degradation

  • Environmental influence on humans

  • Environmental movement

  • Environmental protection

  • Environmentalism

  • Green movement

  • Pollution

  • Radioactive pollution

  • Water supply

Climate Refugees: How Climate Change Is Displacing Millions

The New York Times Editorial Staff

A collection of articles that examine how climate change is displacing millions of people.

Genre: Non-Fiction

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Call Number: 363.738 CLI

Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, and Wetlands

Cathryn Berger Kaye

Provides information, practical suggestions, and examples designed to help teens become involved in efforts to save the world's oceans, lakes, rivers, and wetlands.

Genre: Non-Fiction

Call Number: 333.91 KAY

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

The author details how he ignored naysayers and was able to bring electricity and running water to his Malawian village when he built a makeshift windmill out of scrap metal and spare parts.

Genre: Memoir

Call Number: 609.2 KAM

Dry

Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a war zone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

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Call Number: FIC SHUSTERMAN

Full Body Burden: Growing Up In the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

Kristen Iversen

The author tells the story of growing up near Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant working with plutonium in Colorado, and investigates accidents and government concealed toxic and radioactive waste released by the plant.

Genre: Non-Fiction

Call Number: 363.17 IVE

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

Anna Clark

Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure.

Genre: Non-Fiction

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Call Number: 363.6 CLA

We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

The author shares how he founded the Earth Guardians youth environmental organization and explores how readers can get involved in effective activism, live a more sustainable lifestyle, and form strong communities.

Genre: Non-Fiction

Call Number: 363.7 MAR

Green Movement

Chris Eboch

Explores the history of the green movement in the United States.

Genre: Non-Fiction

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Call Number: 363.7 EBO