Alternative Cars, by Jill C. Wheeler.
Series: Eye on energy
ABDO, 2008
LTy TL 216.5 W485 2008
Summary: Where does energy come from, and for how much longer? Alternative Cars digs into one of today's most critical issues-- the pros, cons, and future of automotive energy resources and conservation methods.

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch ; with a foreword by Prof. David Sobel.
1st ed.
Dawn Publications, 2008
LTy QC 981.8 .C5 C475 2008
Summary: "Describes where scientists look to find evidence of climate change--from changes in bird migration patterns and fruit blossom dates, to obtaining tree rings and mud cores--and especially how students and other citizen-scientists are assisting to monitor climate change, as well as what can be done to mitigate global warming."

Ting and the Possible Futures, writer, Carole Douglis; illustrator Adrienne Kennaway.
Series: Tunza environmental series for children
United Nations Environment Programme, 2008
LTy PZ 3 .D748 Tin 2009
Summary: "Ting and her friends travel to two different futures using a time machine. The first future Ting explores is one of drought, submerged coastal cities, and refugee shantytowns. In the second possible future, Ting sees a huge change in attitude as well as landscape because people acted in time and averted the worst effects of climate change. Ting sees creative sources of energy, the power of planting trees and urban gardens, and a transport system that relies on trains, trams, bikes, and walking."

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion, by Loree Griffin Burns.
Series: Scientists in the field
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
LTy GC 232 .B87 2007
Summary: Describes the work of a man who tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents.