Science PPA

Website Resources:

 

Topics:

 

  • Acid Rain

http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/acidrain/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/acidrain/2.html

http://www.ias.unu.edu/ecology/education/acid_rain.htm

  • Greenhouse Effect

http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/greenhouse.html

http://www.science.gmu.edu/~zli/ghe.html

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1998/es202/l13.html

  • Global Warming

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html

http://www.climatehotmap.org/

http://www.globalwarming.org/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/isproblem/isproblem_frameset.html

https://www.letsgosolar.com/consumer-education/global-warming/

https://www.letsgosolar.com/consumer-education/climate-change-solar/

  • West Nile Virus

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/wnv/wnv.html

http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/research/west_nile/west_nile.html

http://westnilevirus.nbii.gov/

  • Lung Cancer

       http://www.lungusa.org/diseases/lungcanc.html

       http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/cancer_type/lung/

  • Ozone Depletion

http://www.epa.gov/ozone/

http://www.ciesin.org/TG/OZ/oz-home.html

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Ozone/

  • Deforestation

http://www.geocities.com/lucilite/Deforestation.html

http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/academic/global/deforest.htm

http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/rfrc/deforestation.html

  • Obesity in children and adolescents

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_adolescents.htm

http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/medicine/permjournal/spring03/preventing.html

http://www.obesity.chair.ulaval.ca/children.html

http://www.nal.usda.gov:8001/Resource/resportsandstudies/obesity.html

  • Air pollution

http://www.epa.gov/airnow/

http://www.nrdc.org/air/pollution/default.asp

http://www.cleanairworld.org/

  • Teenage pregnancy

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/LIBRARY/TEEN-PREGNANCY/reducing.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/teenagepregnancy.html

  • High Infant Mortality Rate Among Minority Populations in New York City

http://www.council.nyc.ny.us/pdf_files/newswire/infantmortality.pdf

http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/public/press02/pr23-516.html

  • Water pollution

http://www.nrdc.org/water/default.asp

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/09/000929073033.htm

http://www.fixr.com/info/lr-www-epa-gov-region5-water-cwa-htm.html

 

  • Solid Waste Problems in NYC

http://www.newyorkwaste.org/newsletter22.htm

http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/bulletin99/grad_CWRER.html

http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/~mclarke/wpcoalitionbrochure.htm

  • Scarcity of Fossil Fuels

http://www.altenergysources.com/

http://www.greenmountain.com/index.jsp

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html

http://www.nesea.org/

  • Genetically Modified Food

http://www.ejb.org/content/vol3/issue2/full/3/

http://www.isb.vt.edu/

http://scope.educ.washington.edu/gmfood/

  • Human Cloning (policy issue, not a social problem)

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cloning/

http://www.humancloning.org/

http://www.religioustolerance.org/cloning.htm

  • Urban Asthma

http://www.chronicillnet.org/online/bronx.html

      http://www.nyam.org/publications/online/asthmaconference/WARREN-F.htm

      http://www.savvyhealth.com/disp.asp?doc_id=837

  • HIV Among Teens

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/youth.htm

      http://www.phs.org/healthinfo/tips/hlthtip4.pdf

      http://staff.wssd.k12.pa.us/rabelson/PtHoHIVaids.html

  • Natural Disasters

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

http://www.fema.gov/

http://www.usda.gov/

  • Recycling (policy solution)

http://www.nycwasteless.org/home.html

http://www.nsfconsumer.org/environment/recycling.asp

http://www.epa.gov/kids/