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Global Warming: [Film] [Issues] [Science] [Resources]
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Biodiversity: [Film] [Issues] [Science] [Resources]
Research More: Global Warming / Biodiversity [Film] [Reading] [Web]
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Film
Videos and Documentary Films
Deadly Deception General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and our Environment. (1992) 27 min. New Day Films.
Deadly Deception juxtaposes GE's rosy "We Bring Good Things To Life" commercials with the true stories of workers and neighbors whose lives were devastated by the company's involvement in building and testing nuclear bombs. http://www.newday.com/films/DeadlyDeception.html
Global Warming: Hot Enough for You? (2000) 17min. Knowledge Unlimited. ISBN 1-55933-285-9.
Video presents the causes, effects, and prevention of global warming. Uses comments from teens.
Exploring the Diversity of Life (1996) 2 videos. 60 min. each. Environmental Media Corp. ISBN: 1-56791-208-7.
Variety of 10 minute programs on topics such as "The Value of Diversity," Rain and The Forest," "Camouflage."
KCPL Race to Save the Planet, 2 and 6 produced by the WGBH Science Unit in association with Chedd-Angier, Film Australia, The University Grants Commission of India, Gujarat University, EMRC.
This video series explores environmental issues, including global warming.
Threats to Biodiversity: Why We Should Care (1997) 24 min. Rainbow Educational Media.
Good brief introduction to environmental conservation.
UTLib Warnings from the ice written, produced and directed by Rob Gardner ; a production by the WGBH/Boston Science Unit in association with Sveriges Television, 1998.
Wild Places: Endangered Animals & Biodiversity Scientific American Frontiers. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/saf/1106/index.html
Feature Films
The Burning Season (1994) R.
Raul Julia stars in this biography about Chico Mendes and his struggle to protect the Amazon rainforest.
City Boy (1993) not rated.
A boy takes a job for a lumber company. He finds himself torn between his friends who believe the forest should be protected and those who feel it should be logged to build homes and provide jobs.
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) PG-13.
An all-star cast dramatizes the story of the 1989 Alaskan oil spill.
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Dr. Suess' The Lorax (1971) not rated.
Animated version of the classic story about the lorax, a creature trying to save the trees from being cut down.
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Erin Brockovich(2000) R.
Julia Robert's award-winning role as the woman who brought to light a public utility's contamination of a community's water supply and led to a multimillion dollar settlement.
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Ferngully: The Last Rain Forest (1992) G. < br> Animated musical about a rain forest threatened by pollution. Voice talent includes Robin Williams.
Biodiversity (1988) National Academy of Sciences and Smithsonian Institution.
For more information on these videos, see The Internet Movie DataBase (http://www.imdb.com) Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) or Barnes & Noble (http://www.bn.com)
Reading
KCPL Adventures in the rainforest: discovering biodiversity by Francisco Dallmeier, Alfonso Alonso and Deanne Kloepfer ; illustrated by Sandra Glover ; with additional illustrations by Mary Ellen Didion and Wm. Keith Harrison.
Ten-year-old Alina and her eight-year-old brother Julian spend an exciting week in the Peruvian Amazon with their uncle, a conservation biologist, uncovering the secrets of life in the rainforest. Juvenile Fiction.
UTLib Ark of the broken covenant : protecting the world's biodiversity hotspots. by John Charles Kunich, 2003
Biodiversity. (Current Controversies). Ed. Dudley, William. Greenhaven Press. ISBN: 0-737-70850-6. (January 2002).
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Biodiversity. National Forum on Biodiversity. Wilson, Edward Osborne; Frances M. Peter. (Photographer), National Academy Smithsonian Institution. 538 pages. National Academy Press. ISBN: 0-309-03739-5. (September 1989).
KCPL The biodiversity crisis: losing what counts edited by Michael J. Novacek.
Contains illustrations, maps and articles exploring biodiversity and conservation.
Conserving the Environment.. (Current Controversies). Ed. Egendorf, Laura K. Greenhaven Press. ISBN: 1-565-10950-3. (January 1999).
Conservation and Biodiversity. Dobson, Andrew. 264 pages. New York, Scientific American Library. (1996).
CQ Researcher on Saving the Environment. 210 pages. CQ Press. ISBN: 1-568-02627-7. (2001).
Compilations of reports reprinted from CQ Researcher
UTLib Drafting a conservation blueprint : a practitioner's guide to planning for biodiversity by Craig R. Groves, 2003.
The Environment Encyclopedia. Ed. Eblen, Ruth A.; Eblen, William R. 1,547 pages. Bibliographies. Glossary. Illustrations indexes. 11 volumes. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN: 0-7614-7182-0. (2001).
UTLib Encyclopedia of biodiversity edited by Simon Asher Levin, 2001.
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The Encyclopedia of the Environment. Ed. Black, Matthew. 160 pages. Grolier. ISBN: 0-531-11709-X. (1999).
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The Environment: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Dudley, William. Greenhaven Press. ISBN: 0-737-70653-8. (March 2001).
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Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species. Ehrlich, Paul R.; Ehrlich, Anne H. New York, Random House,. (1981).
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The Future of Life. Wilson, Edward O. New York. Alfred A. Knopf. (2002).
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UTLib Gaia, A New Look at Life on Earth. Lovelock, James E. Oxford, Oxford University Press. (1979).
UTLib Global climate change edited by Horace M. Karling, 2001.
UTLib The global warming desk reference by Bruce E. Johansen, 2002.
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Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Roleff, Tamara L.; Barbour, Scott. Greenhaven Press. ISBN: 1-565-10511-7. (January 1997).
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Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Houghton, John Theodore. 240 pages. Cambridge Univ Press. 2nd ed. ISBN: 0-521-62932-2. 2nd edition. (December 1997).
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Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series. Ed. Magill, Frank N. Salem. 5 volumes. ISBN: 0-89356-751-5. (1995).
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The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise. Takacs, David. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University. (1996).
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Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest. Meloy, Ellen. 229 pages. ISBN: 0-805-05065-X. (1999).
In a visit to the Trinity Site at Los Alamos, NM, the author describes the landscape and the effects of radiation on the plants and animals.
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Pollution: Opposing Viewpoints.. (Opposing Viewpoint Series). Roleff, Tamara L. Greenhaven Press. ISBN: 0-737-70134-X. (January 2000).
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Pollution.. (Current Controversies). Haley, James. Greenhaven Press. 2nd edition ISBN: 0-737-71187-6. (September 2002).
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The Satanic Gases. Michaels, Patrick J.; Balling, Robert C. 224 pages. Cato Inst. ISBN: 1-882-57792-2. 0 edition. (May 15, 2000).
Authors argue that global warming is not a problem. Good for comparison with other works.
UTLib Sparing nature : the conflict between human population growth and earth's biodiversity by Jeffrey K. McKee, 2003.
UTLib Thermageddon : countdown to 2030 by Robert Hunter, 2003
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Wiley Encyclopedia of Energy and the Environment. Ed. Bisio, Attilio; Boots, Sharon. 1,562 pages. 2 volumes. Wiley. ISBN: 0-471-14827-X. (1996).
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The Wooing of Earth: New Perspectives on Man's Use of Nature. Dubos, René. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons,. (1980).
For more information on these titles, see Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) or Barnes & Noble (http://www.bn.com)
Library Catalog Subject Searches
Web
Environment @ How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works has informative articles answering those "How does…?"
questions. There are many Ecology/Environment "Hows." A few that may be
of particular interest:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/category.htm?cat=Envir
Wild Places: Endangered Animals & Biodiversity
PBS Scientific American Frontiers. Series website links to episode
websites which include articles, transcript, teacher's guides, and
streamed video of the episodes.
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1106/index.html
Global Warming
Why Files information on this potential increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature. University of Wisconsin
http://www.whyfiles.org/080global_warm/index.html
The EPA Global Warming site
Extensive educational information on global warming and climate change from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/
Global Warming
Comprehensive resource on scientific and policy aspects of this phenomenon of climate change. Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/globalresources/0warming.html
World Climate Report
Print and online publication covering the politics, economics, and science of global climate change.
http://www.co2andclimate.org/climate/
Global Warming
Global warming site from University of Wisconsin - Beloit.
http://chemistry.beloit.edu/Warming/
Skepticism about Global Warming
Argues that global warming is not a problem.
http://www.skepticism.net/faq/environment/global_warming/
Global Climate Change
Exploratorium exhibit.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/
Environmental News Network
Includes background information on the greenhouse effect and human
emissions of greenhouse gases, policy profiles of major world groups
and lobbyists.
http://www.enn.com/specialreports/climate/index.asp
Environmental Issues
Collection of articles about biodiversity, global warming, genetic
engineering of food, human population, and animal and nature
conservation.
http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/EnvIssues.asp
Environmental Citizenship
Philosophy and links from UNT college of environmental philosophy.
http://www.cep.unt.edu/citizen.htm
Environmental Ethics Resources
http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Environment/index.html
World News Network Sites
News stories from around the world and links to relevant web sites
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