Environmental Health: Good News and Bad News
(See the In the News box on p. 398 in your text.)
For more information on the topics discussed in the box, visit the following sites:
Population Growth
http://www.prb.org Population Reference Bureau
http://www.undp.org/popin United Nations Population Division
http://www.un.org/esa/populatin/unpop.htm United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
http://www.unfpa.org United Nations Population Fund.
http://www.census.gov U.S. Bureau of the Census
Stratospheric Ozone
http://www.epa.gov/ozone EPA: Ozone
http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/ozone/ozone01.html NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: TOMS Ozone information
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center
http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour Ozone Hole tour
Global Warming and Severe Weather
http://www.jhu.edu/~climate Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming EPA: Global Warming
http://www.epa.gov/ghginfo/index.htm EPA: Methane and Other Greenhouse Gases
http://www.enviroweb.org/edf Global Warming: Focus on the Future
http://www.ipcc.ch Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.giss.nasa.gov NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
http://www.noaa.gov/climate.html National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Climate
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Paleoclimatology Program: A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming
http://www.wmo.ch World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Transportation and Energy
http://www.fueleconomy.gov Fuel Economy.Gov
http://www.eren.doe.gov U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
http://www.eia.doe.gov U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Information Administration
http://www.ott.doe.gov/hev U.S. Department of Energy Office of Transportation Technologies: Hybrid Electric Vehicle Program