Publisher's Synopsis
A child's introduction to environmental issues which explores various topics, including CFCs, rainforests, soil erosion and over-population. Fred Pearce also wrote "Turning Up the Heat" and "Acid Rain", and Ian Winton has received an American Booksellers' Association Golden Accolade.;This book was also winner of the 1991 TES Junior Information Book Award, the winner of the 1991 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Junior Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Junior Science Book Prize.
