Climate Change
20 Simple Steps to Reduce Global Warming
This website provides 20 easy steps that people can do around their own homes to reduce global warming. Sponsored by the Green House Network.
Carbon for Kids
This website teaches kids about greenhouse gases and global climate. This site contains easy-to-understand pictures, explanations, and video clips. It also provides important facts about carbon dioxide. Sponsored by the International Carbon Bank & Exchange.
Climate
This website addresses questions surrounding climate and climate change. It also provides an archive of past climate data, current climate data, monitors, and outlooks. Sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Climate Change Solutions
This website provides interactive tools, resources, and success stories about actions people have taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It provides easy access to the information, tools, and resources needed to translate concerns about global climate change into concrete actions that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Change
This website provides information about the science, impacts, and adaptation to climate change and how individuals, governments, businesses, industry, and communities take action by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also presents the One-Tonne challenge, a challenge posed by the Canadian government for individuals to reduce their greenhouse emissions by one tonne, but it can be put into practice anywhere! This site offers both teacher- and student-specific resources. Sponsored by the Government of Canada.
Earth Observatory
This website provides the public with the ability to obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on earth's climate and environmental change. The site contains data and images, articles, news, and experiment ideas. Sponsored by NASA.
Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
This online encyclopedia is a one-stop source of information on a range of atmospheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming, and ozone depletion. Sponsored by the Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Progamme and supported by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
This website provides information about current research on environmental change. Sponsored by the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Environmental and Society Impacts Group (ESIG).
Global Change Data and Information System
This website serves as a "gateway to global change data and information," providing a review of climate change and ozone depletion, global change news, and global change research information. Articles are listed by category. Sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Global Change Master Directory
This website provides descriptions of earth science data sets and services relevant to global change research. The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) database includes descriptions of data sets covering agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, snow and ice, geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and human dimensions of global change. Sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Global Change Research Programs This website provides a large variety of resources on climate, greenhouse gases, solar influences, and numerous other topics. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Global Climate Change Research Expolorer
This website explores scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. This site provides information about how scientists study natural phenomena, how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions. Sponsored by Exploratorium.
Global Warming
This website provides information, news, and updates about global warming. It also provides information about the politics and the economics of global warming. Sponsored by the Cooler Heads Coalition, a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition.
Global Warming
This is an eight-part series investigating global warming. It provides tools that can be used to investigate the methods researchers use to study ancient and current climate patterns. Using that information, analyze and critique materials on different websites. On the way, it also teaches how to read critically and, most importantly, to think critically. An accompanying teacher guide provides additional questions and activities. Produced by StudyWorks! Online.
Global Warming
This website addresses key questions about global warming. What is the problem? What do we know? What's being done? What can I do? The site provides area-specific information for the world and the United States. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
This interactive map of early warning signs clearly illustrates the global nature of climate changes. This site also provides photos, possible solutions, and teacher-specific resources.
Global Warming International Center
This website provides links to papers and other resources about global warming. Sponsored by the Global Warming International Center (GWIC), the international body disseminating information on global warming science and policy, serving both government and non-government organizations.
Global Warming Kids Site
This website includes information on global warming, climate, and weather. This site contains games, climate animations, and teachers-specific resources. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Institute of Global Environment and Society
This website provides information about the connection between climate change and weather. This site also serves as a resource for articles, predictions, and more. Sponsored he Institute of Global Environment and Society.
Kids as Global Scientists
This project that is an Internet-enhanced curriculum designed to encourage middle school student inquiry and research about basic concepts of weather and climate. Students use visualization and telecommunication technologies to learn about science both locally and through interactions with peers and resources worldwide. Part of the BioKids website.
Resources: Climate Change Science
This website provides a comprehensive list of links to websites with information about climate change. Topics range from oceans, climates of the distant past, global warming, and the greenhouse effect. Sponsored by USA Today.
Scientific Facts on Climate Change and Global Warming
This website answers eleven frequently asked questions on climate change and global warming. Sponsored by Greenfacts.org.
Teacher's Guide to Climate Change
This guide points K-12 educators to the best sites for teaching about climate change: several that offer first rate background material, and others that include detailed lesson plans and experiments. It begins with the "Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Global Warming."
The Global Warming Debate
CNN correspondents around the world examine the science, the economics, and the politics of the global warming debate. This site also provides a great list of factoids.
United Nations Systems-Wide Earthwatch
This website provides information about emerging and existing environmental problems. Sponsored by the United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch.
U.S. Global Research Program
This website provides links to several educational resource centers. Sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) supports research on the interactions of natural and human-induced changes in the global environment and their implications for society.
What is Climate Change?
This website provides a thorough overview of climate change. Sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Information Office.
What's Up With the Weather? This website is part of a television special from NOVA about global warming. This site provides information about global warming, frequently asked questions, and excerpts from the program. Sponsored by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
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