Are Natural Disasters Increasing?

by Gale Cengage Learning

Book Overview

Contemporary movies and television programs often depict the world as we know it displaced, awash in ocean tides or broken into pieces by devastating earthquakes. The climate data coming through news outlets can seem to reinforce this fatalistic view, with earth warming records hitting new levels year after year. While it can seem like natural disasters are increasingly affecting our world, is there data to support this perception or is this view...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737768231
• ISBN13: 9780737768237
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12