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This paper, published by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, investigates how ozone, a toxic gas produced in polluted air, affects the ability of plants to store carbon and keep it from affecting the climate. While the researchers find increasingly negative effects in...

The Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy stresses the need for a "forum for collaboration on environmental policy and education." This site features an organization comprised of environmental policy makers and universities and colleges devoted to improving environmental...

The issues surrounding pesticides and their affect on indoor air quality are outlined by the Environmental Protection Agency on this webpage.  The site is organized into seven sections: Overview; Sources of Pesticides; Health Effects; Levels in Homes; Steps to Reduce Exposure; Standards or...

This resource, created by Christiana Honsberg and Stuart Bowden of Arizona State University, serves as an electronic book on photovoltaics. Photovoltaics, as described by Honsberg and Bowden, "is a most elegant energy source," created when "light shines on a crystal and produces electricity." The...

This 40-page module, published by the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC), is part of a series of instructional materials on environmental technology and decision-making. This module focuses on the science-based background and research on point source water contamination. ...

This resource, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, provides a job description and task analysis listing/chart for a Pollution Prevention Specialist position. This position identifies, evaluates, recommends, and assists in implementing practices that result in waste...

This 2-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, instructs students on the principles of recycling waste stream reduction. The purpose of the activity is to create a display in a grocery store to show people how to reduce the amount of trash generated by their...

This page is a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 12.990, Prediction and Predictability in the Atmosphere and Oceans.  Topics covered include: limiting factors for weather forecasting, atmospheric modeling, and mathematical tools for atmospheric modeling.  The...

In this 11-page exercise, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students complete a critical thinking activity on social injustice, human health risks, and waste recycling. Students take on the role of a mayor, a presenter from a company that engineers and installs landfill...

This U.S. EPA site allows users to locate any United States public water supply and determine whether that water source has had any recent violations of regulatory standards.  Users can search via a map or by entering the water system ID number.  Links to additional sites for information regarding...