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Looking for a place to start your research, or learn more about climate change? Try this recent report, which discusses the effect of climate change and human intervention on Earth’s water supply. (Check out the linked Subject Terms to find more articles like this.)

Videos and Other Media Resources

Interview with Author Emmi Itaranta
Is water a human right?
A look at the global water shortage from TestTube news.
PBS: Is the World's Fresh Water Supply Running Out?
A discussion of the depletion of fresh water supplies and what it means for the future.
NASA's Climate Time Machine
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Subjects: History

Memory of Water: the Novel

Learn more about Memory of Water and Emmi Itäranta

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False Dawn

"False Dawn, one of the first post-apocalyptic science fiction novels to deal with an environmental collapse instead of war, tells a compelling story of two people thrown together by chance, striving to stay alive in a world that can no longer support a vast human population. Seeking refuge in the Sierra Nevada, Thea and Evan have to keep moving to stay ahead of raiding gangs and the few remaining settlements. With devastation all around, they must decide when survival itself may not be worth the price it demands.Among the first American science fiction novels to use pollution and contamination rather than atomic or hydrogen bombs as the apocalyptic device, and set in actual California locations, False Dawn has come to be regarded as an important transitional novel in dystopian science fiction."

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