This guide to global climate change is a resource for geology, geography and environmental science students. It is not a complete guide but serves to review and illustrate the key factors of climate change over time and space. Each chapter is a broadly self-contained discussion of a specific sub-issue of importance. Chapters 1 and 2 review the climate system and the causes of climate change. Chapter ... Full description.

This site provides an introduction to meteorites, stony or metallic bodies that fall to the Earth from space. Topics include what happens during their flight to Earth; types of meteorites, such as stony meteorites (chondrites and achondrites), stony-iron meteorites, and iron meteorites; and instructions for testing rocks that are suspected to be meteorites. There is also an extensive list of books ... Full description.

This article from the American Institute of Physics discusses the evolution of scientific views about global climate change. The history of this evolution gives a good example of the stepwise fashion in which science commonly proceeds, contrary to the familiar heroic myths of discoveries springing forth in an instant. The history also suggests why, as the NAS committee worried, most people still fail ... Full description.

This staff paper from the National Weather Service's Northeast River Forecast Center explains Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (QPF) and its importance in river forecasting. It includes a primer on areal precipitation, point vs. mean areal precipitation, and a bibliography. Full description.

The U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development has collected resources to help educators and the general public understand sustainable development (creating healthy ecosystems, communities and economies). Resources are categorized into youth, K-12, higher education, business, faith and funding. Full description.

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Water distributes documents (at no charge to the customer) through two different Centers: the Water Resource Center (WRC) and the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP). This service provides access to EPA Office of Water documents arranged by title, EPS publication number, audience type, document type, keyword, or EPA office. ... Full description.

This web site contains information about the research projects from the Geology group at the Bishop Museum. In addition to the current project information, the site also hosts a geochemical data set of volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Islands, organized by volcano. Data are available for the Hawaiian Arch, Hawai`i (Hualalai, Kilauea, Kohala, Mauna Kea, and Mauna Loa), Kahoolawe, Kaua`i, Lana`i, Loihi, ... Full description.

This reference consists of an interactive periodic chart that provides information for most of the elements. Clicking on an element's symbol on the chart accesses the element's name, discoverer and date of discovery, as well as its uses. There is also information on the appearance, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) number (a unique identifier assigned to every chemical that has been described in the ... Full description.

This web article is a March 2000 report from Why Files about the risk of a catastrophic impact from space objects such as asteroids and comets. It cites a presentation at a national scientific meeting, which stated that asteroid impacts over the past 10,000 years had a hand in shaping the climate and the nature of civilization itself. Why Files staff interviewed seven scientists, both pessimists and ... Full description.

A broad collection of mathematical bibliographies and links to pages explaining important concepts. One highlighted feature is a link to Euclid's 'Elements', which contains all 13 books and illustrated figures. Another interesting attribute is a link to the famous 1900 speech of David Hilbert, a leading twentieth century mathematician, in which he addressed the International Congress of Mathematicians ... Full description.