SCIENCE RESOURCES - Environmental Science

Recommended Websites

• Earth Portal

  http://www.earthportal.org/ 

  Comprehensive resource for scientific information about the environment produced by scholars and experts from all over the world. 

  Includes the Encyclopedia of Earth (searchable article database), the Earth Forum (commentary from scholars and discussions with the general public), 

  and the Earth News (news stories on environmental issues drawn from many sources). 

• The Last Noah’s Ark

  http://www.aultimaarcadenoe.com/indexingles.htm 

  Brazilian site about ecology, environment, biodiversity, and environmental education (in Portuguese and English).

• Scorecard-the Pollution Information Site

  http://www.scorecard.org/ 

  Search by zip code to get in-depth pollution reports for communities.  Covers air, water, chemicals, and more. (last updated 2004)

• Environmental Literacy Council

  http://www.enviroliteracy.org/category.php/1.html 

  Check out the links on the right for resources on air quality, biogeochemical cycles, climate, and weather.

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (Dept. of Health and Human Services)

  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ 

  Provides news, data, and health information about exposure and diseases related to toxic substances. 
   

Databases 

• Scientific American archive online

Online reference books

• Dictionary of earth sciences
• Dictionary of ecology
• Dictionary of environment and conservation
• Dictionary of geography
• Dictionary of weather
• Oxford companion to the earth
• World of earth science 

Reference materials in print

• A dictionary of ecology, 1998  REF 577 AL51d
• Alternative Energy, 2006    REF 333.7 AL79
• Biotechnology on the Farm and in the Factory, 2006  REF 664.024 B526s
• Biotechnology: Changing Life Through Science, 2007  REF 660.6 B524
• Environmental encyclopedia, 2003  REF 363.7 G131e
• McGraw-Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 1997 REF 503 M278e
• Teen Guides to Environmental Science, 2004   REF 333.7 M747t
• The Facts on File dictionary of environmental science, 2007  REF 628.03 F118
• The New Book of Popular Science, v.2, 2004   REF 503 N42 v.2
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Energy and the Environment, 1997 REF 333.7 W648e

Browse the stacks 

• Agriculture   630's
• Air pollution  628.5
• Air quality  363.7
• Biodiversity  333.95
• Climate change  551.6
• Energy  333 and  363 
• Global warming  363.7392
• Hazardous waste  363
• Ozone layer  363.73
• Pollution  300.4  and 363.7
• Recycling  300.4 and 333.7
• Soils  631.4
• Sustainability  333.7
• Water resources  333.91

Periodicals

• Audubon
• E. The Environmental Magazine
• Environment
• New England Watershed Magazine