Environmental Issues Pathfinder Page

333.7 ENV	Environmental Policy. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, c2005.
333.72 CON	Conserving the Environment. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, c2006.
333.72 GRO	Grossman, Elizabeth. High Tech Trash : Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health. Washington, DC: Island Press, c2006.
363.738 GLO	*Global Warming.* San Diego: Greenhaven, c2006.
363.739 KID	Kidd, J.S. and Renee A. Kidd. Air Pollution : Problems and Solutions. New York: Chelsea House, 2006.
333.75 RAI	Rain Forests. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, c2006.
333.79 ALT	*Alternative Energy.* (3 vol) Detroit: U.X.L., c2006.
517.6 MAY	May, Suellen. Invasive Aquatic and Wetland Animals. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.
58l.7 MAY	May, Suellen. Invasive Aquatic and Wetland Plants. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.
581.7 MAY	May, Suellen. Invasive Terrestrial Plants. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.
591.7 MAY	May, Suellen. *Invasive Terrestrial Animals.* New York: Chelsea House, 2007.
REF 333.7 ASH	Ashworth, William and Charles E. Little. Encyclopedia of Environmental Studies. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
REF 333.72 MON	Mongillo, John F. and Peter A. Mongillo. Teen Guides to Environmental Science. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. (Check Appendix C for useful websites, and Appendix C for environmental organizations and their website addresses).

Earth Trends Environmental Information
http://earthtrends.wri.org/
Maintained by the World Resources Institute. Focuses on environmental, social, and economic trends.

NRDC: Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/
An environmental action organization whose "purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends." website Topics covered include global warming, clean water and oceans, clean air, forests, environment etc.

Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldwatch.org/taxonomy/term/64
An independent research organization that provides information on a wide range of environmental topics.

Global Climate Change
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/about.html
"Explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains." (website) Has graphs, maps and other recommended websites, click on the listed tabs to search your area of interest.

Global Warming
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming
"Great overview, describing possible causes of global warming, its effects on the earth and its inhabitants, the science behind it, and potential solutions to the problem." (SLJ)
created by The National Geographic Society.

Sierra Club: Global Warming and Energy
http://www.toowarm.org/
Focuses on solutions to global warming.

Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, University of Florida, ISAF
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/
Focuses on the impacts and management of invasive plants..

Invasive Plants of Eastern United States: Identification and Control
http://www.invasive.org/eastern/
Part of Invasive.org. The purpose of this site is to "to provide an accessible and easily used archive of high quality images related to invasive and exotic species, with particular emphasis on educational applications."

The United States National Arboretum (invasive plant page)
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/invasives.html
This section of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture site provides information about invasive plants and contains a "Learn More About Invasive Plants" section that can be searched by state.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov/
Contains hyperlinks to invasive species pages.

National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/unitedstates/ma.shtml
Gateway to invasive species information; covering Federal, State, local, and international sources.

   Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and
     business references. Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography
     Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers,
pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current),
Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts Newspapers.

     Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia
     Encyclopedia. Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant
     Web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from
home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the
Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.