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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Chapter Outline Climate Change Earth's Warming-Cooling Cycle: From Alligators to Icicles High Tech Truck Collects Emissions Data from Passing Cars Obama's Climate Speech at UN Disappoints Many '09 Study: Arctic Temperatures Warmest in 2000 Years Plugged-In: Chinese Car-Maker to Mass-Produce All-Electric Car Changes in Wilkins Ice Bridge, Antarctic Summer, 2009 (Google Earth) Changes in Arctic Ice Cap, 1979-2008 (Google Earth) Hot Topic: Ice Melting at Both North and South Poles Obama Reverses Bush, Moves Toward CO2 Emission Limits Environmental Activist, Aged 12, Fights Global Warming Report from Mt. Kilimanjaro: Glaciers Melting, Water Sources Drying Up Northwest Passage, Long Ice-Bound, is Open for Second Year Kayaker Paddles to North Pole to Show Thinning Arctic Ice Feel the Heat: 2008 NOAA Study Links Extreme Weather to Climate Change Alaskan Glaciers Melting, Shrinking at Accelerated Rate Breaking the Ice: Ice Chunk the Size of Connecticut Breaks Off Antarctic Ice Shelf Greenland's Ice Sheets Are Melting, Shrinking Findings: Greenland Ice Sheet Melting At Faster Rate Students "Step It Up" to Fight Effects of Climate Change UN: How Climate Change Will Affect Earth Climate Change Will Have Devastating Impact on Earth: UN Panel China a Major Contributor to Global Warming Global Warming: Eco-Systems Could Disappear Global Warming Caused by Humans, Says International Panel in '07 Evidence the World Is Getting Warmer Heat Wave in '06 Renews Questions of Global Warming Al Gore on "An Inconvenient Truth" The Ice Dogs: Arctic Adventures of Two Siberian Huskies The Domino Effect If Greenland's Ice Melts Climate "Model" Behavior and Fossil Fuels Arctic Ice Melt: Unplugging Earth's "Refrigerator" European Reaction to Bush's Dismissal of Kyoto As Ocean Waters Warm, Coral Reefs are Dying Ocean Water Temperature Along Pacific Coast Rises; Marine Life Threatened Kyoto Agreement Reached To Curb Global Warming A Skeptical Scientist Speaks on Global Warming and Alarmism Hoover Fellow Says Global Warming Would Benefit Americans Professor Questions Effect of Emissions Controls 1985: Is Earth Warming? Will Boston Be Hot As Miami by 2000? Beach Erosion Theory: Greenhouse Effect Melts Polar Ice, Raises Sea Level 1958 Newsreel: USS Skate, Nuclear Sub, Is First to Surface at North Pole Robert Peary First to Reach North Pole...Or Was He? Carbon Footprints Google Goes Green With Grass-Eating Goats High Tech Truck Collects Emissions Data from Passing Cars National Auto Standards: Less Emissions, More MPG by 2016 Earth Hour '09: Around Globe, Lights Turned Out to Cast Light on Global Warming Model Behavior At '09 Detroit Auto Show "The Portland Effect" -- Bike to Work, Save the Environment Ultra-Thin Plastic Shopping Bags Banned in China Lights Out: Cities Around the World Go Dark for "Earth Hour" 2008 Super Bowl Goes Green Buying "Carbon Credits" Can Help Off-Set Pollution Hotels Go Greener Water Fight: Bottled vs. Tap How Big is Your Carbon Footprint? NBC's Lester Holt Finds Out Car-Sharing Saves Money and Environment Oil Companies Go "Green" Smart Cars Coming to the U.S. In the Bag: Are Paper or Plastic Bags Better for the Environment? Feds Must Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Cars: Supreme Court California Sets Pace on Environmental Regulation California Leads Country in Environmental Awareness Is Future of Thomas Edison's Incandescent Light Bulb Dim? American Shoe Company Reduces Carbon Footprint Good Inflation: Check Tire Pressure, Save Gas Cities, Businesses, Acting Locally on Global Warming "Maglev" Trains Float On Air Over Tracks, Run 300 MPH Nations Convene in Montreal to Curb Carbon Dioxide Emissions Waste and Recycling Up to His Waist in Waste: Texas Prof Touts Dumpster Diving Prices for Scrap, Recyclables, Is Down in the Dumps "Smart Home" Monitors and Adjusts Energy Use Bottle Battle Over Plastic Bottles Made with Chemical BPA Manhole Covers, Copper Tubing Being Stolen, Sold as Scrap Used or Broken CFL Light Bulbs Are Hazardous Waste How to Reduce Waste From Thanksgiving to Christmas Where Rubber Meets the Road: Tires Recycled Into Sidewalks Shipping Containers Recycled, Turned into Houses Japan a Nation of Recyclers and "Energy Misers" E-Waste: Discarded Consumer Electronics Full of Hazardous Chemicals Toilet Water into Tap Water: LA Announces Recycling Plan in 2000 Re-Tirement Age: Recycling, Retreading, Millions of Old Tires Endangered Species South African Man Proud to Be "Part of the Pride" of Lions Veterinary Center's ICU: Intensive Critter Care for Wildlife Teach a Man to Farm Fish: The Growth of Aquaculture Fish Stock: Catch-Limits, GPS Help Reel in Over-Fishing Doing Right by the Endangered Right Whale West Coast Mystery: Why Are Brown Pelicans Dying? Channel Island Foxes Saved from Extinction in Record Time Wild Jaguars, Tapirs, in Peril in Belize Jungles Huge Earthquake Impacts China's Endangered Pandas Global Overfishing: 90 Percent of Largest Fish Are Gone On Thin Ice: Polar Bear Listed as Threatened Species Balancing Lives of Congo Gorillas with Local Livelihoods Sharks Threatened by Coastal Development, Demand for Shark Fin Soup Climate Change Threatens Penguin Population Say Conservationists African Penguin Population Could Drop 50 Percent by 2027 Endangered Mountain Gorillas Make Comeback in Rwanda Bald Eagle Off Endangered Species List Crocodiles of South Florida Off Endangered List Rwanda's Gorillas More Protected Now, But Still Face Threats Check Mate? Trying to Breed, Save China's Giant Pandas Bark Worse Than Bite? Noisy Sea Lions Invade Newport Beach Rare Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Brings Birders, Dollars to Arkansas Town Tens of Thousands of Salmon Die in the Klamath River Will New U.S. Navy Sonar Harm Whales? Rescue Effort for Rare Right Whale, Entangled in Fishing Line Should Grizzly Bears, Now Prospering, Be Taken Off Endangered List? Hundreds of Sea Turtles Die On Texas Gulf Coast 1999 Endangered List: Some Species Safe, But More Added Ranchers vs. Snails: Debate Over Endangered Species Act Endangered Species Act Helped Save the Grizzly Bear Hunters and Animal Rights Groups Clash Over Wolf Kills in Alaska Den of Inquiry: Bear Cubs, Mama Bears and Hibernation Kenya's Challenge: Save Elephants from Poachers; Save Tourism Ocelots, Kinkajous and Binturongs: Endangered Carnivores San Diego's "Frozen Zoo" Preserves Cells of Endangered Species Species Interdependence Studied Before Species Die Off New Forensics Lab Tests Evidence of Crimes Against Wildlife Breeding Success: More Baby Gorillas Born, Survive, in Zoos Why Don't Captive Cheetahs Breed? Culprit: Soy in Diet National Zoo Studies, Breeds, Threatened Animals Indoor Rainforest Opens at The Bronx Zoo "Gorillas in the Mist" -- Dian Fossey on Her 15 Years With Mountain Gorillas Audubon Zoo Tries to Breed Endangered Species "Sea Shepherd" Paul Watson Crusades to Save Whales, Seals Habitat Preservation Size of California Wildfires Doubles Overnight; 125,000 Acres Already Charred Too Many Wild Horses? 33,000 Need "Adoption" "Green" Beret in Special Ops to Save Brazilian Ranforest Fight to Stop Smuggling of Exotic Wildlife From Indonesia Yellowstone Recovers But Faces New Threats 20 Years After Major Fire Costa Rica's Earth University Teaches Sustainable Agriculture, Development University Students Nurse Damaged Coral Reefs A Win for Biodiversity: Costa Rica Reforests Cleared Land Take Some, Leave Some: Logging Company Avoids Clear-Cutting Developer Gives Up Millions in Profits to Protect Bald Eagles Tourists vs. Tortoises: Visitors Threaten Galapagos Islands Monarch Butterflies Migrate Thousands of Miles, from U.S. to Mexico Yellowstone's Grey Wolf Population: From 66 to 850 in 10 Years Senate Votes to Open ANWR to Oil Drilling Cutting Trees to Restore Park Land? Debate on Yosemite "Improvements" Bison Grazing Outside Yellowstone Park Are "Fair Game" President Bush Says 'Cut the Forest to Save It' Australia's Daintree Rainforest, Through the Eyes of An Aborigine Guide Florida Everglades Threatened by Pollution, Development Conservation Group Lists 10 Most Endangered Rivers in the U.S. What are "Wetlands"? Reclassifications Remove Millions of Acres from Protection A Tour of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Destruction of Amazon Rainforest Has Slowed; Rainforest Recovers Slowly "Restoration Ecology" Is Emphasized in Hawaii Utah's Pristine Canyon Country How Does a Trumpeter Swan Get Lead Poisoning? Eating Old Hunting Pellets Marshes and Bayous of Louisiana Are Disappearing 1988 Survey Shows Bird Populations Diving Across U.S. A Tour of the Okefenokee Swamp Theodore Roosevelt and American Conservationism Balancing the Resources of Yellowstone National Park The Philosophy of Conservationist John Muir Biofuels Biofuel Industry Running on Empty De-Vine Biofuel: Ethanol from Kudzu A Really 'Green' Energy Source: Algae One Man's Trash is Another Man's...Electricity? Biofuel Leader: Sweden Gets Energy from Wood Waste, Organic Waste Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Turn Cow Manure into Electricity Producing Biofuels May Worsen, Not Lessen, Carbon Dioxide Emissions Grass Into "Grassoline"? Turning Cellulose into Biofuels Six Million New Genes Identified in Marine Organisms Use of Ethanol Growing in U.S. Growing Conch, Algae As Food; Algae for Energy Science Fair Winners Explain Their Energy Projects Solar, Wind, Water Power Kansas Town Rebuilds; "Putting the Green in Greensburg" Hydropower: Grand Coulee Dam Turns Water into Electricity Texas Wind Farms Spur Hopes for Wind Power Sky-High Nevada Builds Third-Largest Solar Power Plant in the World New-Wave Energy Source: Using Power of Ocean Waves Denmark Leads World in Wind Power; Texas Follows California To Have World's Largest Solar Energy Park Sweden Works to Eliminate Use of Fossil Fuels by 2020 Wind Power Is Windfall for NY Farmers Solar Power Brings Electricity to Navajo Reservation Wind Power Picks Up as an Alternative Energy Source Small College Competes to Build Best Solar House in America Small College Wins Florida-to-Michigan Solar Car Race Solar Power: Energy-Efficient, Not Always Cost-Efficient Canada's Tidal Power Plan May Harm New England Coast Power Shift: Resurgence of Hydropower Nuclear Energy Way Cleared for 1st New Nuclear Power Plants in U.S. in 30 Years Nuclear Energy Reconsidered: Zero Greenhouse Gas, But Deadly Waste Nuclear Power: Time for a Second Look? McCain Defends Nuclear Power at '07 Environmental Conference Obama on Nuclear Power As Alternative Fuel Source 20 States Sue Energy Department over Nuclear Waste "Cold Fusion" Claim Doubted As Other Labs Try and Fail to Reproduce Results Four Days After Chernobyl Accident, Experts Try to Assess Cause, Fall-Out Three Mile Island: First Day, One Year, Ten Years Later Nuclear Power's Impact on Environment Debated in 1970 Fossil Fuels BP's New Cap Stops Oil Flow into Gulf Measuring America's Addiction to Oil Effect of Oil Leak on Wetlands, Birds: A Bird's Eye View President Obama Lifts Ban on Offshore Drilling German Factory Pioneers Carbon Capture in Burning Coal Black Gold: Tapping Vast Oil Reserves Under North Dakota Go "Green" or Get Greenbacks? Town Debates Coal-Fired Power Plant Climate "Model" Behavior and Fossil Fuels After Earthquakes, Rivers of Oil Seep from Earth into Rivers and Streams Commentary: John Chancellor on U.S. Addiction to Oil Exxon Valdez: Oil and Water Exxon Valdez: 10 Years Later The Alaska Oil Pipeline: 20 Years Later Air Pollution High Tech Truck Collects Emissions Data from Passing Cars In Strong Language, EPA Declares Greenhouse Gases a Public Health Threat New Kind of School Testing: How Toxic Is the Air? Breath of Life: Lower Air Pollution Extends Life Expectancy Beijing Air Pollution Still A Problem China Tries to Clear The Air Great Smoky Mountains National Park Truly "Smoky" with Pollution Unhealthy Air in the National Parks EPA Rules Change Re: Clean Air Controls on Older Factories, Plants EPA Relaxes Clean Air Controls Did EPA Tell Truth About Air Quality At Ground Zero? EPA Cracks Down on Pollution from Diesel Engines Kyoto and S.U.V.'s in Los Angeles How NAFTA Will Affect Environment "Make-Sicko" City: Mexico City's Air Pollution Near-Toxic Dead Forests, Dying Children: The Legacy of Communism's Push for Industrial Production President George H.W. Bush Wants Cleaner Alternative Fuels in Cars Acid Rain is Already an International Problem Tapped Out: Vermont's Poor Maple Sap Harvest Linked to Acid Rain Major U.S. Cities Unable to Meet Clean Air Act Deadline Acid Rain Problem Greater than Expected 2,000 Dead, More Dying, After Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India Many States Not In Compliance With Clean Air Act Regulations Water Pollution Can Engineers Cap Oil Leak? Conflicting Reports on Oil Clean Up Oklahoma Town, Poisoned by Lead, Shuts Down Chesapeake Bay Still Polluted, 20 Years After Campaign to Clean It Galveston Bay a "Graveyard" of Debris, 6 Months After Hurricane Seattle Shoe Shine Man Funds Water Projects in Bolivia Mercury in Fish: Which Fish Have Highest, Lowest Levels One-Third of Coral Reefs--Key Marine Life Habitat--Face Extinction by 2050 Survey of U.S. Cities' Tap Water Finds Traces of Prescription Drugs Billions of Gallons of Contaminated Meltwater Threaten Leadville, Colorado Unsafe Levels of Mercury in Tuna and Swordfish? '08 Study Raises Questions Discarded, Nondegradable Plastic a Hazard to Marine Life Toxic Algae Kills Marine Life, Sardines to Whales, Off California Coast Oil Spills After Hurricane Katrina Cause Massive Damage EPA Forces GE to Clean Up Hudson River in 2001 Sound Waves Could Measure Ocean Warming, But Might Harm Marine Life Factories Exceed Limits, Dump Hazardous Waste into Sewers Bird Die-Off: Thousands of Migrating Grebes Die in California Dioxin Accumulating in Fish Near Paper Mills Exxon Valdez - Week 1 Coverage Blackened Redfish, Cajun Favorite, Reduces Redfish Supply Water Wars in Western U.S. Arsenic, Other Poisons, Lace Rivers and Streams in Montana, Oklahoma Is Chesapeake Bay Dying? Its Oysters, Striped Bass Are Researchers Find "Green Slime" in "Pure" Lake Tahoe Pollution Problems Exist in Big Cities, Rural Areas Alike Land Use and Pollution Greening the Urban Jungle Ecotourism in Costa Rica Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement To Plant Two Billion Trees EPA Issues Report on Dirty Beaches As Brazil Grows, the Amazon Rainforest Shrinks Wash-Out: Sandy Beaches All Along U.S. Coastline Are Eroding New Gold Rush: Search for Microscopic Gold Flecks Waterfront Dwellers Put Houses on Stilts, Shore Up Beaches to Slow Erosion Montana's "Civil War" Over Wilderness Acres: Preserve or Develop? Wetland Protection Rollbacks "Biopolitics" At a Peak: Build Observatory or Protect the Red Squirrel? Biocontrol: Killing Pests With Bacteria and Fungus, Not Chemicals World's Largest Copper Mine Retools, Cutting Work Force Irreplaceable Amazon Rainforest Going Up in Smoke South Africa is Vital Resource Source: Diamonds, Gold, Chromium, Platinum Lost Topsoil: Erosion in America's Corn and Grain Belts Foreign Copper Puts the Squeeze on Anaconda Floods and Drought What Causes Severe Springtime Flooding? Midwest Braces For It Planned Flooding of Grand Canyon Restores Eroded Sand Bars American West Already Sees Climate Change Affect Water Supply Migrating Wildebeest Herds Threatened By Lions -- and Climate Change 1 in 3 Homes in Drought-Affected Phoenix Has a Swimming Pool Wildfire Risk: 21 States Hit by Severe Drought Agriculture Secretary Discusses Northeast Drought Two Farmers' Essays: Floods and Droughts The Desertification of Africa Drought Hotline Opened in '88 by Agriculture Dept. Human Population Sharing Airspace, Canada Geese and Planes Both at Risk Americans Hit the Brakes: Higher Gas Prices Mean Less Driving Major Interest: New College Courses, Programs, Devoted to Environmental Studies Census 2008: Fastest Growing Counties Are in South, West Troubled Waters: No Area of World's Oceans Unaffected By Humans A Nation of 'Indoorsmen' -- Fewer Americans Exploring, Appreciating, Nature U.S. Population Hits 300 Million '92 Westinghouse Science Contest Winners Explain Their Projects Invasive Species Shocking: Electric Barrier Set to Repel Invasive Asian Carp Python Boom in Florida Keys Lionfish Invade, Destroy Atlantic Ocean Marine Habitats Green Monster: Invasive Brazilian Weed Chokes U.S. Lakes Growing Snakehead Fish Population Worries Biologists, Fishermen Swarms of Aggressive Killer Bees Spread Through Texas Attack of the Bio-Intruders: Invasive Species Voracious Asian Longhorned Beetles Eat Trees, Whole Urban Parks Sick Salmon: VHS Virus Threatens Pacific Northwest Fishing Industry Asian Mite Invasion May Kill a Million Bee Colonies Bacteria Solution May Kill Dutch Elm Disease Fungus Dutch Elm Disease Claims Twin Cities' Elm Trees Earth Day The History of Earth Day, 1970 to 2008 Earth Day '94: More Products Made from Recycled Material Palo Alto Celebrates Earth Day Every Day Earth Day 1990 Marked Worldwide in 130 Countries Earth Day, 1990: Consumers Buying In to Eco-Products Minority Report: The Environment and Social Justice on 20th Earth Day Earth Day Essay: Eco-Progress, and Lack of It, in the 80s Organizer of 1st Earth Day Assesses Progress Made in 20 Years Chancellor: Earth Day First Earth Day: Youth Speak Out First Earth Day: News Coverage on April 22, 1970 First Earth Day: Interview with NYC Mayor John Lindsay Co-Founders of First Earth Day Explain Goals of Teach-In 20th Anniversary of the First Earth Day In Earth Day Ceremony, Internal Combustion Engine Laid to Rest English Language and Composition course sitemap English Language and Composition U.S. Govt and Politics course sitemap U.S. Govt and Politics