The Global Environment
Global climate change, the ozone layer, and other world environmental issues
Global warming in the Wikipedia
A NASA reference article on global warming
Global Warming FAQs:
US National Climate Data Center
Natural Resources Defense Council
Union of Concerned Scientists
Skepticism About Global Warming from Brian Carnell's Skepticism.net
See Wikipedia for both sides of the debate
Information on abrupt climate change (Could something like the "Day After Tomorrow" scenario happen?)
Science @ NASA
The Weather Underground
Abrupt Climate Change FAQ from the Union of Concerned Scientists
The Wikipedia on abrupt climate change
Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises — free online book from the National Academies Press
Ozone Layer FAQs:
Ozone Hole FAQ from The Weather Underground
Ozone Depletion FAQs from faqs.org
Mar 22, 2011
"How -- and how fast -- radioactive elements travel depends on many factors, including weather, soil and what they land on first."
Mar 21, 2011
"Japan appeared to make moderate progress in stabilizing some of the nuclear reactors, but also disclosed new cases of contaminated food."
Mar 20, 2011
"Thanks to dysfunctional regulation of genetic engineering and misguided biofuels policy, the world's poorest are going hungry"
Mar 20, 2011
"The issues that will determine the long-term impact of the nuclear crisis"
Mar 19, 2011
"The growing concern surrounding the release of radiation from an earthquake and tsunami-stricken nuclear complex in Japan has raised fears of radiation exposure to populations in North America from the potential plume of radioactivity crossing the Pacific Ocean. Experts have issued a statement to help Americans understand their radiation-related health risks."
Mar 18, 2011
"'Mega-heatwaves' like the one estimated to have killed tens of thousands in western Europe in 2003 will become up to 10 times more likely over the next 40 years, a study suggests"
Mar 17, 2011
"So far, levels outside of the plant pose little risk to human health."
Mar 16, 2011
"At the Fukushima reactor I, the Japanese government reports, workers have been in the vicinity of radiation levels in the past day as high as 400 millisieverts per hour."
Mar 16, 2011
"On April 26, 1986, 1:23:44 A.M. local time, explosions destroyed reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, releasing approximately 400 times more radioactive fallout than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency."
Mar 16, 2011
"Experts say that any release of radioactivity from the nuclear plant in Japan depends on the weather and the performance of containment structures."
