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One Day on Earth is a global collaborative project that launched last fall for the purpose of documenting 24 hours of life around the world. On October 10, 2010 (10.10.10) people around the world filmed life in their parts of the world. Those recordings were then contributed to a massive film project that will eventually be edited down to showcase the diversity, conflicts, tragedies, and triumphs that take place in a 24 hour period across the globe. The film is not ready yet, but you can explore many of the contributed videos by visiting the One Day on Earth map.

This is from the national earth science teachers association, and has a bunch of resources, data, and ways to teach the earth sciences. (Including weather, climate, and geology)

Also connections to happier maps, but this has strong impact.

Great short video showing how CO2 patterns change with the seasons. PS it mentions that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way.

Plastic pollution is killing our planet! It's choking our oceans, poisoning our food and water supply, and wreaking havoc on the health and well-being of humans and wildlife worldwide Use these ten shocking facts about the scope of plastic pollution to educate, inspire and mobilize your friends, family, coworkers and community to join the movement to END PLASTIC POLLUTION this Earth Day. 

Men now outnumber women (2013) on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling with an imbalanced population. Here's a look at five decades of data:

The Breathing Earth simulation Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this is just a simulation.

cool graphic by xkcd

Awesome correlation to the Village of 100 (or 1000) idea for environmental science!!

This is my students all time favorite lab. Students don't understand the full economic or scientific impact of the mining industry until they have gone through this simulation. It's sort of like a geologic monopoly game. It is based in part on the ROA activity and similar activities in various earth science books.

Live and archived satellite weather, temperature, particulate, etc. data. Interactive global map.

This interactive tool allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works and how it is affected by human activities and nonhuman phenomena.

lastic. It's super useful but it's also a big problem for the environment. Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the earth four times! The main issue is that plastic doesn't biodegrade, meaning it sticks around for a very long time. This video gives a quick overview of the scope of the plastic problem and what some people are doing to try to solve it. .

Impressive time series photos showing change in population growth, desertification, receding glaciers, more.

Nasa's data and info...

WWF's event to have lights turned out for one our on 3/31.

My favorite teacher websites to beg, borrow, steal from? MY WEBSITE (check out review links): http://nhs-nvusd-ca.schoolloop.com/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1316679699106 Bodas -- http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/bbodas/welcome_to_ap_environmental_scie.htm And lots more APES teacher's websites! http://www.lcusd.org/lchs/mewoldsen/APES/APESTeachersWebsites.htm And this Virtual Ballooning website lesson (gave you the lab handout): http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/balloon_atmostrata.html

All topics related to APES plus content chapters for APES.

Article from Wired magazine...title says it all.