Photographs and digital illustrations describe natural disasters such as avalanches brush fires, earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes; and examines how rescue team use technology to try to predict and prevent future disasters.

". . . recounts the history of five blowups that continued to rattle the world long after the smoke had cleared."--Back cover.

Examines various features of volcanoes and earthquakes - including the study of damage prevention from these natural phenomena - with detailed illustrations and photographs.

Photographs and text explain the causes and effects of volcanoes and earthquakes and examine specific occurrences throughout history.

Explains how and why volcanoes erupt, discusses the effects of volcano eruptions, and looks at examples of some of history's most significant volcano disasters.

Describes the nature and causes of volcanoes, ways to predict eruptions, ways that people have adapted to live around them, and some major eruptions in history.

When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.

Describes dangerous and destructive weather conditions around the world, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, hail, and drought with photographs, historical background, and legends.

Explains why hurricanes occur, describes the technology used to study them, looks at the damage they cause, and discusses some of history's worst hurricanes.

Describes specific occurrences of natural disasters such as meteor impacts, landslides, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes, and their impact on human history.

Describes the forces of nature that cause floods, the damage they can do, and ways of controlling or preventing them.

Describes how and why blizzards form, discusses the damage they cause and ways to predict them, and looks at some of history's most disastrous blizzards.

Describes how and why landslides happen, discusses the damage they cause, explains ways to avoid and survive them, and looks at some of history's worst landslides.

Defines tsunamis and describes the geologic forces that cause them, as well as the damage they can inflict when the huge walls of ocean water strike land.

Describes the nature and causes of earthquakes, the damage they do, ways to predict them, and numerous earthquake disasters throughout the world.

A comprehensive work on tornadoes and their development, history, and makeup.

Describes the location, nature, development, measurement, and destructive effects of tornadoes, as well as how to stay out of danger from them.

Describes the characteristics, causes, and effects--such as tornadoes and floods--of El Niño and La Niña events, as well as methods of predicting and studying them.

Storm chaser Warren Faidley discusses the techniques, dangers, and difficulties of photographing lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

Discusses air pressure, temperature, humidity, dew point, rain, wind, lightning, thunder, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other weather-related topics.

Considers opposing opinions on various issues concerning world population, including problems of rapid growth, the effects of population on the environment, and ways of decreasing human fertility.

An introduction to weathering and erosion that describes what causes them and how they change landscapes.

Uses color illustrations to examine the impact of pollution, global warming, and climate change is having on the humans, plants, and animals that reside on Earth. [electronic resource]

Examines the greenhouse effect, focusing on its complex causes and potential impact on global weather, ecology, and economy.

Examines factors and forces that influence weather and climate on Earth - including global warming, natural phenomena, and meteorology - with detailed illustrations and photographs.

A pictorial biography of Jacques Cousteau, covering his adventures aboard "Calypso" with his team of scientists, diving equipment, and waterproof cameras, and work to protect the oceans from pollution.