Earth & Environmental Sciences

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Geology: K-12 TLC Guide Paleontology: K-12 TLC Guide Science: K-12 TLC Guide

Offshore Drilling and the Environment: K-12 TLC Guide Parks: K-12 TLC Guide Rainforests: K-12 TLC Guide

Arbor Day: K-12 TLC Guide
Earth Day: K-12 TLC Guide

NASA: K-12 TLC Guide

Agencies, Organizations & Institutions

																Acid Rain Air Quality Aquaculture The Arctic Asbestos Atmosphere Biodiversity Biosphere Biomes Carbon Dioxide Caves & Caving Climate Cryosphere DDT in the Developing World Desertification	Deserts Earthquakes Earth's Orbit Energy Environmental Law Environmental Organizations Geoengineering Geologic Time Geology Geysers Glaciers Global Change Habitat Fragmentation Hydrosphere Invasive Species	Lakes Magnetic Poles Minerals Mountains Oceans & Oceanography Oil Oil Spills Ozone Pedosphere Plate Tectonics Rain Forests Recycling Rivers Rock & Soils Volcanoes Water

Landforms

Earth & Environmental Science	Flat Earth: K-12 TLC Guide. Galapagos: K-12 TLC Guide. Kyoto Protocol: K-12 TLC Guide. Love Canal: K-12 TLC Guide. Southeast United States Natural Resources: K-12 TLC Guide. Texas Geography and Geology: K-12 TLC Guide. Audubon, John James: K-12 TLC Guide. Borlaug, Norman: K-12 TLC Guide. Burroughs, John: K-12 TLC Guide. Carson, Rachel: K-12 TLC Guide. Cifuentes, Inés: K-12 TLC Guide. Douglas, Marjory Stoneman: K-12 TLC Guide. Goodall, Jane: K-12 TLC Guide. Leland, Mickey: K-12 TLC. Leopold, Aldo: K-12 TLC Guide. Marsh, Robert Perkins: K-12 TLC Guide. Muir, John: K-12 TLC Guide. Maathai, Wangari: K-12 TLC Guide. Nelson, Gaylord (founder): K-12 TLC Guide. Suzuki, David, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Udall, Stewart: K-12 TLC Guide. 25 Most Endangered Eco-Systems in the World: Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities, Nature. National Public Radio: 2/24/00 (3:35). 1959 Antarctica Treaty: K-12 TLC Guide. 2008 Kingston, Tennessee Coal Ash Spill: K-12 TLC Guide. 2010 Hungarian Toxic Sludge: K-12 TLC Guide. The Alaska Science Forum, University of Alaska: Living in the North. Living on Earth. Mountains. Water, Snow and Ice. *Alternatives, University of Waterloo. Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory. Appalachian Trail Conference. Arbor Day: K-12 TLC Guide. Automobiles and the Environment: K-12 TLC Guide. Bad Astronomy: Home Is Where The Life Is. Seasons Begin With The Solstice Or Equinox. What Causes The Seasons?. BBC: 1990 Report Calls the Aral Sea the World's Worst Eological Disaster. Charles Darwin's Ecological Experiment on Ascension Isle. Cryosat-2 Focuses on Ice Target. German TanDEM-X Satellite Returns First 3D Images. Oil Tanker Runs Aground on Scotland's Shetland Islands. The Best Earth Science Resources on the Internet, SciCentral. Careers in Earth Science, NASA: K-12 TLC Guide. CollegeTermPapers.com. Conservation Hall of Fame. Continental Drift, Auburn University: 750 Million Years Ago. Snapshots. Cousteau, Jacques. Deutsche Welle: The Environmental Downside to Desalinated Water. Risk Index Maps World's Disaster Hot Spots. The Early Earth, University of California, San Diego. Earth and Moon Viewer. Earth and Sky. Earth Day: K-12 TLC Guide. Earth Online: An Internet Guide to Earth Science. Earth Science Week. Earth Sciences 10, University of California, San Diego. Ecology Games, Surfing the Net with Kids. Ecology Hall of Fame. eNature. The Encyclopedia of the Earth. Endangered Species, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. EnviroLink. Environment Australia. Environmental Education Resources on the Internet. The Environmental Ethics & Public Policy Program, Harvard University. Environmental Impact of Coltan Ore Mining: TLC Guide. Environmental Law, FreeAdvice.com. Environmental Models, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.: Atmospheric Cycles: Simplified Carbon Cycle. Energy Balance Modeling. Nitrogen Pentoxide Modeling. Environmental Resources for Students, The Environmental Education Network. The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, Library of Congress. Exotic Wildlife in Natural Areas, Zoological Miscellania. Garbage, The Annenberg/CPB Projects. The Glacial History of Mount Shasta. Global Change: K-12 TLC Guide. Global Climate Information Project. Grand Canyon Explorer. "Green" Clip Art, Mr. Donn's. The Green Lane, Environment Canada. Green Teacher: Education for Planet Earth. GreenCOM: Environmental Education & Communication, US Agency For International Development. GreenTruck. Hawaiian Astronomical Society: Clouds From Space. Earth From Space. Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics. Earth Introduction. Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History. The Illinois Natural History Survey: Center for Biodiversity. Ecology Software Subject Index. The Jason Project. Kyoto Protocol: K-12 TLC Guide. Living on Earth: Autism and Toxins. Eulogy to the Hummer. Getting to the Bottom of Methane. Tree Planting for Carbon Raises Questions. Visions of the EPA: Past, Present and Future. Love Canal: K-12 TLC Guide. Middle School Earth Science Explorer, Wheeling Jesuit University: Dinosaur/Extinction. Earth Systems: Adaptation. Biomes. Cycles. Earth's Spheres. Geologic Time. Plate Tectonics. Marketplace: Which Is Greener: An e-Reader or a Book?* Methane: K-12 TLC Guide. NASA: Earth Observatory. Earth Observing System (EOS): Earth Observing One (EO-1) Launched. The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere. The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. JSC Digital Image Collection. Landsat: K-12 TLC Guide. NASA Environmental & Resource Management Spinoffs. NSSDC Photo Gallery: Earth. Earth & Moon. Planetary Photojournal. Space Radar Images of Earth. Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission. Visible Earth. Womenquest: Polar Trek 2001. National Geographic: Critical Alaska Habitat Spared From Oil and Natural Gas Development. Earth's Antimatter Belt. Japan Earthquake Shortened Days, Increased Earth's Wobble. Kids. Meteors May Have Delivered Earth's Precious Metals. Wild World. Zodiacal Light. National Public Radio: 3M Recalls Products: 5/17/00 (3:18). An Alien View of Earth. America's Obsession with Bottled Water. America's Shifting Ground. American Air Illegally Stored Hazardous Material: 12/16/99 (3:45). 12/17/99 (3:44). Ban on MTBE Gasoline Additive: 3/20/00 (3:30). Biofuel Laws May Harm Environment. Brower, David: Environmental Leader. Remembrance #1: 11/7/00 (1:44). Remembrance #2: 11/11/00 (3:30). Burning Cow Manure Solves One Environmental Problem But Creates Another. Bush Declares Marine Preserves in Pacific. Clamflats Return in Maine: 11/16/99 (audio: 3:40). Climate Connections. Companies Quit U.S. Chamber Over Climate Policy. Court in India Convicts 7 in Bhopal Gas Tragedy Dioxin: 5/19/00 (6:15). Douglas, Majory Stoneman: 12/12/00 (8:50). Eco-Tourism Holds Promise, Peril for Egyptian Oasis. Eating Right Can Save the Planet. Empire State Building Goes Green — For Good? Environment & World Trade Organization (4:45). Environmentalists Adopt New Weapon: Seed Balls. Federal Land Grazing Dispute: 3/1/00 (4:52). For Early Man, It Wasn't Easier Being Green. Ford to Clean Up Toxic Area: 11/03/00 (3:18). Going Organic Helps a Small Dairy Stay Afloat. Green Building: A Real Estate Revolution? 'Greenest' Museum To Open In San Francisco. Historic Conservation Legislation: 10/6/00 (3:29). How A-Bomb Testing Changed Our Trees. How and When the Earth Will End: 2/20/00 (4:00). How Dangerous Is Dioxin? How Green Is It? Insecticide and Parkinson's Disease: 11/5/00 (3:00). Israeli Environmental Institute: 11/30/99 (6:30). In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez. Kids and Pesticides: 5/16/00 (6:00). Los Angeles Returns Water to Owens Valley. Making Gas from Prairie Grasses. Measuring Ocean Pollutants 3/27/00 (8:46). Meteorites and the Formation of the Earth (4:51). Mongolians Seek Their Fortune n Gold, But At a Cost. Mussels Lose Out as Carbon Dioxide Changes Ocean. NASA Slated to Receive Billions to Study Earth. The Palmyra Atoll: 5/4/00 (4:29). 'Pesticide Drift' Eluding Efforts to Combat It. Pharmaceutical Pollution: 5/22/00 (8:15). Protecting U.S. Coral Reefs: 3/3/00 (3:13). Poisoned Places. Reducing Greenhouse Emissions: 10/18/00 (3:15). Removing UndergroundTanks: 5/8/00 (6:00). Romanian Cyanide Spill: 2/15/00 (4:30). Scientists Turn Trees into Carbon Banks. Six of the Oldest Living Things on Earth. Some 'Energy Star' Appliances May Not Be That Green Soundscape Ecology Toxic Shipment: 4/7/00 (4:12). Tree-Person Ratio. Two Bibles Preach a Hip, Eco-Friendly Gospel. The Ugliness of Spring: 4/18/00 (3:30). Views of Earth from the Middle Ages to the Space Age. Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow. What Happens to Electronic Waste? World Bank Environmental Record 4/14/00 (6:30). World's Most Endangered Eco-Systems: 2/24/00 (3:35). The World's Largest Garbage Dump: 4/15/00 (5:45). National Wildlife Federation: Backyard Wildlife Habitat. Explore The Outdoors. Population and the Environment. *Ranger Rick. Trade & Environment. Nature. Networld Project. The Nine Planets, University of Arizona. Ocean98 (interactive). People and Discoveries, PBS. PhysicalGeography.net. Planet Earth, Space.com. Planetary Science Research Discoveries, University of Hawaii. Protected Planet. Rainforest Action Net. Ravenswood Media. Recycling, The Writing Den. Russian Environmentalists: K-12 TLC Guide. American Geophysical Union. Science Update (audio: 1:25), American Association for the Advancement of Science: Chemical Ground Pollutants (4/9/01). Filtering Rain Runoff Pollutants with Wood (8/22/01). Making Biodegradable Plastic from Grass (4/25/01). Scorecard. Smithsonian Magazine: The Ecological Ramifications of Columbus' Arrival in the New World. TIME: Hometown Heroes Watching Over the World. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: K-12 TLC Guide. UKAgriculture. Views of the Solar System, Spaceart.com: Earth From Space. Earth Image and Animation Index. The Planetary Globe Icosahedron Home Page. The Shrinking of Greenland's Glaciers. Terrestrial Impact Craters. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Cryoseisms. The Greenhouse Effect and a Newborn Planet. Mud Season. Wildernet: American Environment And American Culture*, Yale University.
Earth & Environmental Science Indiana Environment	Hoosier Environmental Council. Indiana Environmental Practitioners Website. Internet Environment Resources, Indiana State University. St. Joe Valley Greens.
Earth & Environmental Science Atmosphere	Greenhouse Gases: K-12 TLC Guide. Jet Streaks: K-12 TLC Guide. Kennelly, Arthur Edwin: K-12 TLC Guide. Noctilucent Clouds: K-12 TLC Guide. Earth and Sky: Earth's Atmospheric Layers Seen from the International Space Station. Earth's Albedo: Light and Electromanetic Radiation: K-12 TLC Guide. NASA. University of Alaska Fairbanks. University of Wisconsin. *Pulse of the Planet: Astrobiology: UV Rays. Science Update (audio: 1:25), American Association for the Advancement of Science: Chemical Ground Pollutants. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Exploring the Upper Atmosphere with Kites. Jet Streams. What Are the Different Layers of the Atmosphere?, New Zealand Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research: Exosphere. Mesosphere. Stratosphere. Thermosphere. Troposphere*.
Earth & Environmental Science Biosphere	Atlas of the Biosphere, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Biospherics. Exploratorium. Introductions to the Biosphere, Fundamentals of Physical Geography. NASA. Rice University.
Earth & Environmental Science Biomes	Habitat Fragmentation: K-12 TLC Guide. South American Biomes: K-12 TLC Guide. Community Learning Network: Arctic. Tundra. Eco-Portal. NASA Classroom of the Future. Resource Africa. South African Government Department of Environmental Affairs. World Biomes: eNature.com. Kimball's Biology Pages. NASA Earth Observatory. Radford University. Thinkquest. University of California Berkeley. University of Puget Sound. World Wildlife Fund. WorldBiomes.com. Access Excellence.
Earth & Environmental Science Cryosphere	Antarctica: K-12 TLC Guide. The Arctic: K-12 TLC Guide. Glaciers: K-12 TLC Guide. Icebergs: K-12 TLC Guide. American Geophysical Union. Exploratorium. Integrated Global Observing Strategy, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Michigan Tech. Montana State University. National Snow and Ice Data Center. Rice University. State of the Candian Cryosphere, Canadian Cryospheric Information Network. A Tour of the Cryosphere: Earth's Frozen Assets, NASA. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. University of Illinois. Visible Earth, NASA.
Earth & Environmental Science Geoengineering	National Public Radio: Geoengineering: 'A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come'. Geoengineering: A Way to Cool Earth. U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity Moratorium on Geoengineering.
Earth & Environmental Science Earth's Orbit	K-12 TLC Guide to the Solar System. *The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Earth's Elliptical Orbit*.
Earth & Magnetic Poles Earth's Orbit	Antarctica: K-12 TLC Guide. The Arctic: K-12 TLC Guide. Magnetic South Pole: K-12 TLC Guide. Compass: K-12 TLC Guide. Magnetism: K-12 TLC Guide. Navigation: K-12 TLC Guide. Orienteering: K-12 TLC Guide. Earth and Sky. National Geomagnetism Program, Geological Survey of Canada: Intermagnet.
Earth & Environmental Science Hydrosphere	Oceans and Oceanography: K-12 TLC Guide. Precipitation: K-12 TLC Guide. Rivers: K-12 TLC Guide. Water: K-12 TLC Guide. Wetlands: K-12 TLC Guide. Exploratorium. Florida Institute of Technology. Introduction to the Hydrosphere, Fundamentals of Physical Geography. Montana State University. Rice University. University of California, Berkeley. University of Florida. University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Visible Earth, NASA.
Earth & Environmental Science Pedosphere	Rocks and Soils: K-12 TLC Guide. NASA. The Pedosphere and Its Dynamics.
Earth & Environmental Science Plate Tectonics	Ocean Rifts: K-12 TLC Guide. America & Eurasia to Join: BBC National Public Radio Crustal Dynamics Data Information System, NASA: Tectonic Plate Motion. This Dynamic Earth, U.S. Geological Survey. Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics, Spaceart.com. The Nine Planets, University of Arizona. Plate Tectonics, Wheeling Jesuit University. University of California, San Diego: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. Driving Forces of Plate Tectonics. Isostasy and Plate Tectonics. Teacher Resources.
Earth & Environmental Science	Celebrating Earth: Environmental Books for Children, Boston Public Library. Environmental Themes, Fairrosa Cyber Library. Primary: Cherry, Lynne: K_12 TLC Guide. *Gershon's Monster, Eric A. Kimmel. Young Adult: Coming Through the Swamp: Nature Writings, Gene Stratton Porter. Adult: Emerson, Ralph Waldo: K-12 TLC Guide. Leopold, Aldo: K-12 TLC Guide. Thoreau, Henry David: K-12 TLC Guide. In the Catskills, John Burroughs. Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things, Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie: National Public Radio. Amazon.com*.

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This guide last edited 03/10/2012
This guide last revised 06/11/2010