Children’s Books

A New Ecosystem is Thriving in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

04/26/2023

Greetings! A blob of plastic pollution twice the size of Texas is alive and well in the Pacific Ocean. It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a 620,000 square mile vortex of trash floating between California and Hawaii. And get this...

Rising Tides Threaten to Banish Millions

04/06/2023

Greetings! Climate change continues banishing our precious beaches, not only in the United States, but around the globe. In particular the beaches of North Carolina’s Outer Banks are a major victim to sea level rise. I’d always love grabbing my windsurfer while heading south down route...

The UN: “World Likely to Pass a Dangerous Temperature Threshold within 10 Years”

03/24/2023

Greetings! The sobering subject of climate change continues making more breaking news. Here’s the latest United Nations Report dated Monday, March 20th. The report released by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said, “The world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the...

Climate Change Bolsters Increased Risk of Depression and Anxiety

02/07/2023

Greetings! A new Bangladesh study reported people have higher risks of depression and anxiety from the effects of climate change. The study assessed the burden of depression and anxiety in populations experiencing climate-related shocks and stressors in Bangladesh. This South Asian country is labeled, “…the world’s seventh...

AI Predicts Dire Climate Warming Effects in 10 Years

01/31/2023

Greetings! The science world has another dire prediction on the effects of climate change and you could see these within the next 10 years! By using AI forecasting, the study said, “The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in...

Half of Globe’s Glaciers Gone by End of Century

01/12/2023

Greetings! Clearly, it’s very sobering news to hear from a new study that “Half of the world’s glaciers are doomed to disappear by the end of the century due to climate change.” This study was published in the journal Science it “made projections on the...

Announcing an Extraordinary Under Water Christmas Tree?

12/20/2022

Happy Holidays! Clearly, Christmas trees are a normal part of our Holiday celebration. Now imagine a Christmas tree that lives its entire life underwater! With that said, here’s some very cool and interesting news for you. These living organisms living under the...

Nurdles are Now Consuming the World!

12/06/2022

Greetings to you! In this blog, I’d like to talk about a fairly new word in the climate change and plastic pollution research areas. The word is “Nurdle.” Do you know what a plastic nurdle is? According to the Plastic Soup Foundation here’s the definition, “Nurdles, or plastic ‘pellets’,...

Kobee Manatee’s History

11/30/2022

Greetings! Here’s something I thought you might find interesting. I’d like to talk about the background of the award-winning Kobee Manatee® Children’s Educational Picture Book series. I’ve been writing and working on the series for the past 12 years and I’d like to show...

Celebrate the Manatee Every Day in November!

11/20/2022

Greetings! It’s that special time of the year again when we celebrate manatees because November is Manatee Awareness Month! Yes, as the temperatures are now cooling down, all manatees begin seeking the naturally warmer spring waters in Florida. And these springs stay at 72 degrees Fahrenheit...