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Environmental Systems & Societies: Global Climate Change & Sustainability

Biodiversity, Biomes & Climate Zones, Climate Change & Global Warming, Energy, Food Production, Water

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Climate Change & Global Warming

Check NASA's Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet for up-to-date comprehensive information

Carbon Footprint Factsheet
Center for Sustainable Systems
Climate and Human Evolution
Climate effects on human evolution. Smithsonian Magazine.
Climate Change
The World Bank
Climate Change
United Nations Environment Programme
Climate Change
Union of Concerned Scientists
Climate Change: Policy and Mitigation Factsheet
Center for Sustainable Systems
Climate Change: Science and Impacts Factsheet
Center for Sustainable Systems
Climate Solutions
USDA
Encyclopedia of Alernative Energy and Sustainability
David Darling online encyclopedia
Global Warming 101
National Resources Defense Council
Greenhouse Gases Factsheet
Center for Sustainable Systems
How is Sea Level Rise Related to Climate Change?
NOAA
Inside Climate News
Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.
There are Diseases Hidden in the Ice, and they are Waking Up
BBC Earth
The World's Worst Offenders For Plastic Pollution
Statista (As of 2020)

Sustainability

United Nations 203o Agenda for Sustainable Development

The Ecosystem and How it Relates to Sustainability
U Michigan. Lesson with review and test.
Global Connections - Natural Resources
PBS. What role have natural resources played in the politics and economy of the Middle East?
NOVA: The World in Balance
Human population growth and issues.
Sustainability
US Environmental Protection Agency. Learn the Issues; Science & Technology; Laws & Regulation (US)
Sustainability - Open Access Journal
Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. Sustainability provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published monthly online by MDPI (Molecular Diversity Preservation International)
Sustainable Development Goals: 17 Goals to Transform our World
United Nations
United Nations Environment Programme