Dark matters : nature's reaction to light pollution / Joan Marie Galat.
Material type: TextPublisher: Markham, Ontario ; Brighton, Massachusetts : Red Deer Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 70 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780889955158
- 0889955158
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 522 G146 | Available | 33111008976744 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 522 G146 | Available | 33111008852341 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Light and dark have affected the very ways humans, plants, and animals have grown and thrived. In fact, light and dark have affected pretty much the entire natural world around us. But lights from cars, streetlights, houses, shopping malls, skyscrapers, and other structures make towns and cities glow with light so bright it can be seen from outer space. What happens when humans tamper with the age-old balance of day and night?
Told through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Joan who loves the outdoors, Dark Matters introduces young readers to the fragile animals that are impacted by our increasingly threatened nighttime skies.
Come discover the amazing night life of frogs and bats, turtles and fireflies, birds, plants, and so much more. And learn how their lives and ecosystems are negatively impacted by light--much of which is so unnecessary.
This book is packed full with fascinating and unexpected facts and illustrations, and comes with tips and suggestions on how young people can help reduce light pollution.
Because dark matters!
Looking up-the night sky -- Neighborhood lights -- Sea turtles -- Birds and light -- School's out -- Sleeping under the stars -- To the coast - artificial light and frogs -- Ocean lights -- Underwater -- The bat incident -- Following moose -- Working otuside -- Dark matters -- What you can do.
Thirteen-year-old Joan loves the outdoors; she loves looking up at the night sky and finding the constellations. She learns that all the light humans use is harming that beautiful natural world. All those car headlights and bright city lights make it difficult to truly see the stars in the sky. There is also a dire effect on birds and animals. Joan Marie Galat introduces the idea of light pollution to young scientists its effects on birds, animals and the dire consequences to entire ecosystems if it is not controlled. Activities and suggestions about what can be done to protect the natural world from this man-made problem are offered to all young natural scientists to undertake.