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This is by far the most diverse website that include more angles of climate related issues than one will ever need.

An article about the prevalence of leukaemia in Europe after the Chernobyl accident and a more recent update on the study. Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb victims are also discussed in comparison.

An article from world-nuclear that discusses the environmental impacts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs and progress from disaster to make the areas what they are today. Weapons testing as a result of the incidents is also discussed.

I love the way the writer put these ideas into perspective. This website has a lot of great information.

An article about disaster tourism, which can be related to the trips taken to the ghost city of Chernobyl that I have been studying.

An article of the progress of the environment in Chernobyl and its current state after the reactor accident.

An article detailing research collected concerning mutations in the loci of the brain in children born in the Chernobyl area after the accident and of a control group.

A letter to the editor about the Chernobyl disaster and the creation of a wildlife preserve. Many topics are discussed including biomass energy from burning irradiated plant life, the cost of the project, etc.

Another perspective on the Tragedy of the Commons.

I found this site while searching for information on the clown fish and how it's doing in the wild since Finding Nemo came out in 2003

This link will allow you to register for a Boston Public Library ecard. This ecard will give you access to all of BPL's electronic resources. It will also allow you to use Google scholar to a greater capacity

Under what conditions do people sharing a common resource develop sustainable ways of cooperating? Vollan and Ostrom (Nobel eonomics prize winner) provide an overview of recent experiments with people involving the forests of Ethiopia. Many different factors affect the outcomes, e.g., group's distance to markets--do not expect a simple counter-picture to Hardin's simple model of the tragedy of the commons. P.S. You can get access to the full text by signing into Science magazine via the UMB library, but here's the summary of the article: Sustainably managing common natural resources, such as fisheries, water, and forests, is essential for our long-term survival. Many analysts have assumed, however, that people will maximize short-term self-benefits-for example, by cutting as much firewood as they can sell-and warned that this behavior will inevitably produce a "tragedy of the commons" (1), such as a stripped forest that no longer produces wood for anyone. But in laboratory simulations of such social dilemmas, the outcome is not always tragedy. Instead, a basic finding is that humans do not universally maximize short-term self-benefits, and can cooperate to produce shared, long-term benefits (2, 3). Similar findings have come from field studies of commonly managed resources (6-7). It has been challenging, however, to directly relate laboratory findings to resource conditions in the field, and identify the conditions that enhance cooperation. On page 961 of this issue, Rustagi et al. (8) help fill this gap. In an innovative study of Ethiopia's Oromo people, they use economic experiments and forest growth data to show that groups that had a higher proportion of "conditional cooperators" were more likely to invest in forest patrols aimed at enforcing firewood collection rules-and had more productive forests. They also show that other factors, including a group's distance to markets and the quality of its leadership, influenced the success of cooperati

Website that learns what topics you like and brings you to related websites. Cool way to find a site, and then all the links from there.

SKYTRUTH is a bit like GoogleEarth plus science. It is of interest to me because it has material on gold mines and their impacts on the surrounding environment. In its own words, SKYTRUTH focuses on "our changing environment to stimulate changes in habitat protection, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable resource management."

This website offers assistance in teaching children about nature. There are resources listed and curriculum.

This article discusses the neurological connection to empathy.

Us and China top Co2 emitter

The idea arose in the second section that the cycle of soil erosion and restoration in the case from Oaxaca might continue into the future. I was skeptical about future restoration, but this article (from a village 200km away) shows that positive change can happen. It also speaks to the issue of how common resources can get managed.

This editorial was written on the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day by Denis Hayes who was the national coordinator for the first national Earth Day held on April 22, 1970.

This is a short survey about consumer attitudes toward being environmentally responsible. I believe this may be related to Dan's project.