Many of us have become aware of the dismal state of our environment and how it got that way. Now in a communal effort we have begun to take steps to counteract and prevent ecological degradation. Below you'll find sites that have supported such action and will provide you with the environmental information that you seek.
Down-to-Earth Answers
The World Resource Institute's Earth Trends is your web connection to just about all the environmental information you could ever want. The site is broken down into categories, such as atmosphere, water, population, energy, and economics, each of which contains a searchable database, country profiles, maps, and data tables.
How Green are You?
The Emissions Calculator asks you some pointed questions about your lifestyle - family size, miles driven, type of car, etc. - and then tells you how much impact you have on the environment. It then graphs you a graph of how your emissions stack up.
Great Env. Issues Reference Site
- Basics and Introduction
- Biodiversity and Adaptations
- Biomes, Ecosystems, Habitats
- Cyles, Chains, Webs, Pyramids
- Ecological Concerns, Solutions
ActionBioScience
Actionbioscience.org is a non-commercial, educational web site created
and managed by BioScience Productions, Inc. to promote bioscience
literacy. This web site provides articles by scientists, science
educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience
challenges: environment, biodiversity, genome, biotechnology, evolution,
new frontiers, and bioscience education. In addition, the web site
provides educators with lessons and resources to enhance bioscience
teaching. Actionbioscience.org articles are correlated to the U.S.
National Science Education Standards and organized in easy-to-follow
charts.
Hubbard
Brook Teacher and Student Resources
Botany- Different Botany Links
Great
Lakes Information Network - Anything you want to
know about the Great Lakes
National
Audubon Society - Birds, Birds, and more
Birds
ESA
Educational Page -
The ESA's education related activity page.
NASA
Science News - Climate scientists report that
urbanization has altered weather patterns over Atlanta,
Georgia. Data collected for the last 25 years link
deforestation and the use of heat-absorbing materials with
oddities such as severe morning weather.
Northern
Prairie Science Center
Contains a resource finder to
search for Biological Resources on specific topics. In
addition, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has created
many Web pages with the information you may
need&emdash;including material related to plants and animals
and images you may use in your reports.
Urban
Options
Urban Options offers guidance
and services for managing homes and yards in more energy
efficient, ecologically sound, and healthy ways.
The
Clean Air Markets
Division
The Clean Air Markets Division
manages various market-based regulatory programs designed to
improve air quality.
Journey
North
The journeys of a dozen
migratory species are tracked each spring. Students share
their own field observations with classrooms across the
Hemisphere. In addition, students are linked with scientists
who provide their expertise directly to the classroom.
Several migrations are tracked by satellite telemetry,
providing live coverage of individual animals as they
migrate. As the spring season sweeps across the Hemisphere,
students note changes in daylight, temperatures, & all
living things as the food chain comes back to life.
Great
Lakes National Program
Office
Environmentaly related
information on the great
lakes.
Human
Gene Mutation Database
The Human Gene Mutation
Database (HGMD) represents an attempt to collate known
(published) gene lesions responsible for human inherited
disease. This database, whilst originally established for
the study of mutational mechanisms in human genes (Cooper
and Krawczak 1993), has now acquired a much broader utility
in that it embodies an up-to-date and comprehensive
reference source to the spectrum of inherited human gene
lesions. Thus, HGMD provides information of practical
diagnostic importance to (i) researchers and diagnosticians
in human molecular genetics, (ii) physicians interested in a
particular inherited condition in a given patient or family,
and (iii) genetic
counsellors.
Pollution
in the Great Lakes
Region
The GLIN Information Center
serves up Great Lakes news, a regional events calendar, a
laws and policy reference guide, and links to current job
opportunities and funding sources. You'll also find image
galleries, and communication tools including GLIN's popular
e-mail list: glin-announce.
Society
of Wetland Scientists
The Society of Wetland
Scientists is a non-profit organization founded in 1980 to
promote wetland science and the exchange of information
related to wetlands. The Society continues to grow and has
over 4000 members from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and many
other countries. The Society holds an annual meeting for the
presentation of scientific and technical information and
maintains numerous other programs in support of student
research and wetland science.
Green
& Growing Environmental Education Project's Home
Page
Home to "From the Ground Up,"
which began as a teachers' lesson guide on food,
agriculture, and sustainable development. This on-line
version is divided into five lessons; The History of
Agriculture and a Description of Sustainable Development;
Soil; Agriculture and Chemicals; The Real Cost of Food; and
Everything's Connected.
Union
of Concerned Scientists
UCS is an independent nonprofit
alliance of 50,000 concerned citizens and scientists across
the country. We augment rigorous scientific analysis with
innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build
a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world.
CONSEQUENCES
Home Page
CONSEQUENCES is produced and
distributed without charge as a public service, to provide
reliable assessments of practical concerns related to the
national and international consequences of changes in the
global environment
Insect
Ecology in New Guinea
Now with more with more than
1,600 images of over 1,200 species of herbivorous insects
from New Guinea and with extensive databases of
entomological literature on New Guinea
U.S.
Global Change Data and Information
System
Contains information on various
changes in the global environment.
The mission of the Center for
Conservation Biology Network is to help develop the
technical means for the protection, maintenance, and
restoration of life on this planet - its species, its
ecological and evolutionary processes, and its particular
and total environment; to help raise awareness, educate, and
encourage personal involvement of the public and academics
alike.
The
1997 El Nino/Southern
Oscillation
This electronic mailing is
intended to provide near real-time reports primarily on
marine and terrestrial events that may be linked to the
development of the 1997-98 El Niño/Southern
Oscillation which appears to be unfolding as one of the most
severe ENSO events in history. Emphasis is on seabirds and
changes to marine ecosystems, but we appreciate other
reports that may expand our understanding of effects. These
might include rainfall, flooding, or associated disease
outbreaks.
The
New York Times: Global Warming - The New York
Times global warming articles
World
Wide Fund for Nature
WWF's goal is to stop, and
eventually reverse, the worsening degradation of the
planet's natural environment, and build a future in which
humans live in harmony with nature.
The
Video Project -
International Year of the Reef Resource Guide
Acid
Precipitation Project
The name says it all.
The
Ordination Web Page
This ordination web page is
designed to address some of the most frequently asked
questions about ordination. It is my intention to gear this
page towards the student and the practitioner rather than
the ordination specialist
U.S.
EPA Region 5 Home Page
Earth
Day Groceries! -
Behavioral
Ecology Online!!
Union
of Concerned Scientists
EcoNet
Illinois
Natural History Survey
The
Official Earth Day Website
Save Out
Environment
Launching on Earth Day, visitors will be able to make
their voice heard by legislators and other policymakers with
just a click of the mouse in a number of crucial battles to
protect the environment for future generations.
Website visitors can take action on any or all campaigns and
quickly send personal messages to their representatives to
Congress, to their two Senators, and to other
policymakers. Visitors do not have to be a member of
any of the organizations in order to take action and maker
their environmental views known. And once they take action,
they can opt to receive updates on the issue and information
on other campaigns.
Home
Energy Saver
Calculate how
much you are spending on energy and get suggested
changes.
League
of Conservation
Review the voting records of
your federal officials at the League of Conservation web
site.
Energy
Star
Replace aging, inefficient
appliances. A government program called Energy Star
will point you toward the most energy efficient ones.
Concept
Mapping Instructions