Environmental Science 1401/Current Events and Case Studies:

As of July, ’04, some of these links may have rotted, wandered, or changed to other websites. Will check these when time permits. I am not responsible for any links that may have changed to anything inappropriate. (7/16/04)

Cable News Network (do word search)	Environmental News Network	Endangered Species Act and Related Issues
Biotech/Genectically Altered Foods, etc.	California Energy Problems (1996-2001) and other energy-related articles (updated 8/20/01)	Galapagos Islands (includes 2001 oil spill)
United States Founding Documents (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Indepence)	Non-Native or Invasive Species	Oceanographic Institutes
Wetlands and Related Issues	Atmospheric, Climatic, and Related Issues (includes discussions about global warming and stratospheric ozone)	Pollution Put In Its Proper Perspective (review of the "Skeptical Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lombrg)
Wonderful World - Bjorn Lomborg's audit of the world - Sunday Times-UK article	Reefs (Modern and Ancient)	Zimbabwe Famine

[Instructor's note:  When you enounter news stories, etc. with quotes or other information on the theory of "global warming" from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), etc., please check other websites for alternate points-of-view.  The science on the theory of "global warming" is not settled!  Also, other websites contain current events also.]
Links to other websites with environmental news
Env.

Sci. Index Page

Solar and Alternative Energy Associations, Notable Projects, Misc. Info

El Paso Solar Energy Association	Southface Energy Institute - Atlanta	Chattahoochee River flora and fauna
Sherpa Guides - Georgia environmental notes	The St. Catherines Sea Turtle Conservation Program	Center for Environmental Resource Management Univ. of Texas El Paso
University of Georgia Institute of Ecology	Georgia Sustainable Agricultural Professional Development Program	University of Georgia Center for Agricultural and Environmental Science
El Paso Solar Pond	Georgia's Environment - Ga. EPD Report	NRG Magnet - Alternative Energy
Biogas - Landfills	Biogas - German Research	Allied Sustainable Techologies Group - De Montfort Univ., United Kingdom
Rio Grande Institute for Soft Computing	The Dawn of Micropower	Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful
Biomass - Renewable Energy Corp.	Gold excreting microbes	New roles for plastics in solar energy -4/01/02

[Instructor's opinion: In order to responsible citizens, it would be wise to read our founding documents (Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights) once a month.  It is also important to know your elected officials.]

Declaration of Independence	United States Constitution	U. S. Bill of Rights
Federalist Papers	Federalist Paper No. 10	Freedoms Nest
Are You a Libertarian?	Who's Your U.S. Senator/Representative?	Constitutional Amendments 11-27

Endangered Species

Wolf Recovery, Political Ecology, and Endangered Species	The Endangered Species Act: Who's Saving What?	Fixing the Endangered Species Act	See National Geographic Magazine, March 1995
Partnerships Crucial to Saving Species Norton Says	Property Rights and Species Preservation

Biotech, Genetically Modified (GM) foods, Other Agricultural Issues, etc.

GM Rice "best hope of feeding world" (go to website, do word search for GM rice, includes other articles)	Where's the Golden Rice?	GM Rice Patents Given Away	Planet Rice.Net
Deal Signed on Golden Rice	Golden Rice Collaboration Brings Health Benefits Nearer	Monsanto Adds Support For Golden Rice; Opens Its Genome Sequence Data To Worldwide Research Community	Yellow Rice Gives Dietary Boost
Stunted GM Crop May Help Feed World	GM Pollen Can Kill Butterflies	GM Third World Warning	No Bio-corn on My Farm This Year
Golden Rice: The Golden Chance for the Undeveloped World

California Energy Problems (the offerings of the talking heads do not explain this complex issue), also included are some articles about national energy concerns

California's ManMade Energy Crisis: Opinion-Larry Elder	The Electricity Crisis? (a series of articles and commentaries)	Conserving Electricity - Opinion - Dr. Thomas Sowell	Supply and Demand Realities - Opinion - Charles Krauthammer
Electricity Shocks California - Opinion - Dr. Thomas Sowell	California Energy Crisis Could Cripple U.S. Economy	Kyoto Preview	This Just In: Price Controls Cause Shortages - Opinion - Ann Coulter
Running Out of Power - Opinion - Doug Bandow	Rolling Blackouts - Opinion - Dr. Thomas Sowell	How to Create an Energy Crisis - Opinion - Sally Pipes	Energy Crisis Turns the Light on Ignorance - Opinion - Sally Pipes
Gov. Gray Davis Gets It Wrong on the Electricity Crisis	Gore's Gas Fumes	Behold the Politician at Work	Price Caps Blamed for Further Power Shortages
Libertarian Party - Causes and Possible Solutions for Energy Problems	Power Price Caps Have Created Shortages	Cato Institute Policy Report on California Energy Problems	Headline News (price caps cause shortages) - Dr. Thomas Sowell
Price Controls - historical perspective	Time of Day Electricity Pricing	The Problems with Price Controls - Bruce Bartlett	California's Electricity Crisis, what's going on....
California's Dim Bulbs-P. J. O'Rourke	California Economics vs. Electricity	Effects of Kyoto-like policies	$9 Billion Dollar Attempted Shakedown of Energy Producer
Greens vs. Energy	Private Utilities are Charging Calif. less than Public Utilities	More info on California Electricity Crisis	Energy Policy: Lifting Government Burdens...
Pro-market Calif. Energy Commission Chair to resign	Raising Electricity Prices will Save Money	Ethanol is a loser	Bonn Voyage
California Sues EPA	Problems with Ethanol as a fuel

Galapagos Islands

Galapagos Islands Oil Spill/Darwin Foundation	Galapagos Islands Oil Spill/CNN	Galapagos Islands Oil Spill/CNN	Galapagos Islands Oil Spill/York Univ./Canada
Galapagos Islands/ Terraquest/virtual tour	Galapagos Oil Spill - more CNN	Oil Spill Killed 15,000 Galapagos Iguanas 6/14/02

Non-Native or Invasive Species

Rice (Swamp) Eels	Zebra Mussels	Brown Tree Snake	Rice (Swamp) Eels
Zebra Mussels

Oceanographic Institutes

Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	Bedford Institute of Oceanography	Institute of Ocean Sciences
Institute of Ocean Sciences/Ocean Science and Productivity Division	Joint Program in Ocean Dynamics	Skidaway Institute of Oceanography	Florida Marine Research Institute

Reefs (Modern and Ancient) Deteriorated links have been fixed on first three rows of this table 12/6/04

Links fixed on 12/06/04 – this row	Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute	Health Status of the World’s Coral Reefs	Coral Reef Bleaching and Climate Change
Links fixed on 12/06/04 – this row	Gray’s Reef - Georgia Coast	Artificial Reefs – Alabama Coast	Archaeocyathids (Cambrian Period) (the first reef builders)
Rugose Corals (Paleozoic only)	Tabulate Corals (Paleozoic only)	Scleractinid Corals (Mesozoic & Cenozoic)	Human-Induced Destruction of Coral Reefs
The following links may have drifted to different cells.	Fungi associated with dust may be affecting coral reefs	Long Distance Dust may adversely affect coral reefs	Conference on Globally Transported Dust
The following links may have drifted to different cells.	PBS/Scientific American - dust-borne pathogens	Dust from Africa may be killing Caribbean coral	Info on Rugose and Tabulate Corals

Trees

Sycamore tree-Pine Plains, NY

Sycamore tree-Pine Plains, NY

Wetlands and other Water-related issues (Including the 2000/2001 Arsenic debate)

Wetlands & Other Water Issues - Competitive Enterprise Institute index	Wetlands (Private Conservation Efforts)	Foul Water or Foul Science? The EPA Targets America's Farms	Say It Ain't So, Andy! The Sobering Scope of EPA's Total Maximum Daily Load
Arsenic and Old Laws	National Research Council Poisons Arsenic Debate	Environmental Campaign Plays Loose with the Truth about Arsenic	California's Coming Water Crunch
Just Who's Water Is It?	Arsenic - San Ysidro, New Mexico	Great Lakes are self cleansing

Misc.

Eco-terrorism Prompts Federal Action	The Truth About the Environment	New Plan for Forest Fire Prevention
MTBE Cleanups Mandated for Oil Companies	Hypoxia Hype in the Gulf of Mexico	Spiked Statistics
Ozone Risk Overestimated		Eminent domain abuses
ELF eco-terrorism	International Whaling Commission
Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute	Economic Man, Cleaner Planet
Mysterious black water off Florida coast	Updates on Florida Coastal Blackwater Event	The U.S. Global Change Research Office
Soil Horizons	Extremophiles - Life on the Edge

Zimbabwe Famine - I told my students in 2001 that this was coming.  It just got here faster than I expected.

Zimbabwe Land Reform	Zimbabwe farm seizures	Final Zimbabwe farm seizures
		Zimbabwe Famine 6/24/02

Atmospheric, Climatic, and Related Issues
Environmental Science Class Notes (Links to websites and specific articles)
Environmental Science Links to external websites
JHS homepage
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