Human Ecology/ Environmental Biology Readings

1. Environmental Problems list
2. Global Warming and Climate Change
3. Satellite Imaging
4. See this Global Environment Report
5. Rachel Carson Council Home Page.
6. Limits of Human Growth.
7. National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) For ecological and environmental information.
8. Nature's Subsidies to Shrimp and Salmon Farming. Science
9. Long-Term Agroecosystem Experiments. Science.
10. Listen to the NPR radio expedition on the Tongass National Forest, the last great intact rain forest in the U.S.
11. Biomass Decline in Amazonian Forest Fragments.
12. Lead in the inner city. Read about it here.
13.   The World is Going to Hell in a Hand Basket (This is a series of focused readings).
14. Critical Ecosystems Home.
15. World Population Profile (US Census Bureau). Also, read World Population Profile and World Population at a Glance.
16. Environmental Link Sites.
17. Scorecard for Jefferson County is here.
18. Simulating the effects of climate change on tropical montane cloud forests.
19. Transgenic Crops: Introduction.
20. Environmental Defense Fund. Not just a bunch a tree-huggers. Lots of good links and info.
21. Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management
22. The State of Food and Agriculture 1998
23. IUCN Redlist of Endagered Species
24. ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS
    • Hormones in the Environment Lecture Pix
    • Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999-2000: A National Reconnaissance
    • Our Stolen Future
    • Drugs in your water: Pharmaceuticals are another pollutant.
    • Introduction to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals Not all toxins in the environment are poisons!
    • The Estrogen Receptor Ways in which ecotoxins can affect systems at the receptor level.
    • Hormone Imposters Consequences.
    • Environmental Estrogens Consequences. See also "Study links river pollution to feminization of male fish".
    • "Where Have all the Boys Gone?" Read about the decline in male births.
    • Sperm count decline confirmed
    • Male Reproductive Health Problems. Read it here.
    • Endocrine Disrupting Nonylphenols are Ubiquitous in Food
    • Development of a Reproductive Performance Test for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals....
    • Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999-2000: A National Reconnaissance
    • Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment
25. Environment, Lifestyle, and Infertility
26. Ecological Indicators for the Nation
27. Global Change Ecosystems Research
28. Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plant and Animal Species
29. Link to Caulerpa taxifolia in Southern California (A simulation is here)
30. A better Earth
31. Biosphere Rant (Summary)  
32. Mercury in Fish is here and here  Fishing Warning Signs
33. Contaminants in Polar Bears
34. So What's Wrong with the World, Anyway?
    • Population Growth
    • Climate Change
    • Hormones and Hormone Disruptors in the Environment
    • Pesticides and other contaminants in the environment
    • Water
    • Ecosystem Simplification
    • Invasive Species
    • Loss of Biodiversity
    • Mass Extinction
    • Transgenic Crops
    • Nanotechnology
    • Emerging Diseases
    • BioTerrorism
35. Trace the SARS outbreak!!
36. Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
37. Arctic Theme Page
38. Read about the Arctic's problems here.
39. Pentagon Report on Global Warming (Get the full report here)
40. Global Warming and Climate Change
41. A Worrisome Lack of Leadership: Hurricane Katrina
42. Species Scramble to Adjust to Warming
43. How Electric Power is Produced
44. Tropical Forests Unprotected
45. Bush and the Environment  Then read this