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Captured Science History: Fukushima Disaster: How a Tsunami Unleashed Nuclear Destruction by Danielle Smith-Llera
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
A massive tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl accident 25 years earlier. The monster waves that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 killed 15,000 people and caused nuclear reactor meltdowns ...Show more
Chernobyl Explosion - How a Deadly Nuclear Accident Frightened the World by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
The long-term damage from an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant more than 30 years ago is still unknown. When explosions ripped through the reactor in rural Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, they spewed huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere and caused the worst nuclea ...Show more
Exxon Valdez - How a Massive Oil Spill Triggered an Environmental Catastrophe by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
The biggest oil spill in U.S. history that polluted the pristine waters of Alaska decades ago and killed thousands of birds, mammals, and fish, still haunts the people who are living with its aftermath. On Good Friday 1989, the huge oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling ...Show more
Finding the Titanic: How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship by Michael Burgan
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Category: Junior Nonfiction | Series: Captured Science History Ser.
On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that's where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until it w ...Show more
Trash Vortex - How Plastic Pollution Is Choking the World's Oceans by Danielle Smith-Llera
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends ...Show more
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