Air Pollution
- Air pollution: Describes the "various types of air pollution, the effects that they have on people, and what is being (or not being) done to correct the problem."
- EPA Air Now: Simulations, how ozone is formed, particle pollutin, air quality index, and more.
- Air pollution: Describes the "various types of air pollution, the effects that they have on people, and what is being (or not being) done to correct the problem."
- EPA Air Now: Simulations, how ozone is formed, particle pollutin, air quality index, and more.
- Chlorofluorocarbons
- CFC facts
Acid Rain
- Acid Rain : Causes, effects of acid rain, and what is being done to address this problem. (EPA site).
- Acid Rain: Do you need to start wearing a rain hat? : USGS site highlighting causes, effects, geographic distribution of the problem.
Waste, Landfills, Hazardous Materials
- The Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste: Why trash is a problem, ways to reduce trash, and tips for preventing the problem.
- EPA "Wastes" resource page: Links to other EPA sitews about solid waste, hazardous waste, toxic chemicals, and more. See also the EPA Wastes Subject Index.
- Engineered Landfills: Description of how these work and what dangers are involved.
- Composting
Desalination
Global Warming
- Climate Change: What it is, the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, how man influences climate change.
- Global Warming Information Center
The Global Warming International Center (GWIC) is the international body disseminating information on global warming science and policy, serving both governamental, non-governamental organizations, and industries in more than 120 countries. It sponsors unbiased research supporting the understanding of global warming and its mitigation. - GlobalWarming.Org
The goal of this site is to "dispell myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis." The site also tracks "the progress of the international Global Climate Change Treaty negotiations and the Kyoto Protocol." - National Resource Defense Council Global Warming Site
"NRDC’s global warming site provides information on the causes and effects of global climate change, and offers solutions to the problem. It includes fact sheets, reports and links to other global warming sites." - New Scientist Guide to Climate Change
Overviews of global warming and articles exploring all aspects of this controversy. - Ozone: Good Up High, Bad Nearby (EPA site)
- Stanford University's Solar Center
Explores the question of if global warming is simply the effect of normal fluctuations in the sun's energy.
Water Pollution
- Poisoned Waters: PBS Frontline episode, featuring information about legacy pollutants, stormwater runoff, manure pollution, and pollution from development.
- Water Pollution Resources (from the EPA).http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/watewaterpollution.html
- Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution: EPA fact sheet. http://www.epa.gov/owow/NPS/qa.html
- A Primer on Water Quality (USGS site) http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-027-01/
- Medline Plus Resource Page
- Water Pollution Guide: Types, causes, dangers, prevention, treatment, and resources. http://www.water-pollution.org.uk/
Nonrenewable Energies
Energy Kids: Information about oil, natural gas, coal, uranium.
Energy Story: Includes chapters on fossil fuels, natural gas, biomass, geothermal, hydro power, nuclear, ocean energy, solar, and wind energy.
Nuclear Power
- Moving ahead with a new nuclear age
From the Office of Nuclear Energy - Frontline: Nuclear Reaction: Report on why the U.S. seems ready to abandon nuclear power.
- What is Nuclear Energy? (Students' Corner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
- More links about Nuclear Energy
Renewable Energy
- Energy Story: Includes chapters on fossil fuels, natural gas, biomass, geothermal, hydro power, nuclear, ocean energy, solar, and wind energy.
- Energy Kids:
- How Stuff Works: Solar, biofuel, switchgrass, ethanol, biodiesel, hybrid cars, wind power, nuclear power.
Solar
- Solar Energy (Dept. of Energy Energy Kids Page)
- Solar Energy Technologies Program by the U.S. Department of Energy
- Solar Power Basics by the Solar Electric Power Association
- Frequently Asked Questions by the American Solar Energy Society
Biomass
- How Biomass Energy Works
- Energy Story: Biomass
- Biomass Basics by the National Renewable Energy Laboratories
- Biomass Energy: Alliant Energy Kids
Tidal Power
- Ocean Tidal Power (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
- Is Ocean Power a Viable Energy Source? (news reporter for About.com)
- How Tidal Power Plants Work
Wave Energy
Wind
- Wind Energy -- Energy from Moving Air
- Alliant Energy Kids Page
- American Wind Energy Association
- Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program
Geothermal
- Geothermal Energy: Alliant Energy Kids
- Geothermal Technologies Program by the National Renewable Energy Labs
- Office of Geothermal Technologies by the U.S. Department of Energy
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Hydroelectric power
- Tennessee Valley Authority:
- How Stuff Works
- Hydropower: Energy from Moving Water (Dept. of Energy)
- Let's Explore Hydropower (Tacoma Power)
Hybrid Cars
Recycling
