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School & Educators Complete (eBooks!) – eBook subscription database (over 12,000 titles) to support multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology).
SIRS Discoverer – Selected content for novice researchers, especially elementary and middle school students and educators.
SIRS Issues Researcher – Curriculum-aligned database of content organized by complex issues, ideally for middle and high school students and educators.
ProQuest Central Student –Millions of articles from more than 10,000 full-text scholarly journals.
The World's Biomes Aquatic, desert, grassland, forest and tundra.
Earthtrends The environmental information portal
Gulliver Media specialises in natural history, conservation, history, science and factual and general viewing video, television and multimedia productions.
Earth Systems - Virtual Library The WWW Virtual Library - Environment, is a searchable index of over 1,000 carefully screened links arranged alphabetically and by category. We verify each link on a regular basis. However, if you should find a link that does not work, please let us know.
Sustainable Development A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or metadatabases
Natural Resources Natural Resources Research Information Pages (NRRIPS) are intended to be an Internet resource guide for researchers, practitioners and students in the natural resources field. Please consult comprehensive catalogs such as Yahoo and the WWW Virtual Library: Environment for broader environmental topics. Your visits or comments on this website are much appreciated.
Danube Delta The waters of the Danube, which flow into the Black Sea, form the largest and best preserved of Europe's deltas. UNESCO
Pantanel wetlands of Brazil Video produced by WWF-Brazil shows natural beauty, threats and examples of conservation projects it supports in the Pantanal, the largest continental wetland on the planet.
The Future Okavango Sustainable management of the Okavango Swamps
Ramsar UN Convention Signed by 168 countries to protect 2186 wetlands of international significance
Wonder of Wetlands Wonder of Wetlands Contemporary management strategies and the role of non government organisations (NGOs)
Destination Wetlands Sustainable Tourism
ReefVid A resource of free coral reef video clips for educational use
The Great Barrier Reef Debate Video debating the future of the Great Barrier Reef from ABC Splash
Climate Change Video: Coral Winners Climate Change from ABC Catalyst Program
Great Barrier Grief Video: Great Barrier Grief from ABC Four Corners Program
Coral Reef SOS A documentary from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about the importance of coral reefs and what's happening to them - YouTube
Restoring Coral Reefs Marine biologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reattach healthy coral pieces on a severely damaged coral reef.
Global Coral Reefs World resources Institute Case studies and current information on global coral reefs
Reefs at Risk The Reefs at Risk project assesses the status of and threats to the world’s coral reefs from a wide range of human activities including coastal development, overfishing, and pollution.
Threats to the Great Barrier Reef Australian World Wildlife Fund - Fight for the Reef Campaign (GBR)
Coral Reefs - Ecology and Threats Without urgent action to address climate change, pollution, overfishing and other threats these beautiful and life-sustaining organisms could disappear.
Reefbase - a Global Information System for Coral Reefs GIS maps monitoring the state of the world’s coral reefs
Carbon Cycle Three levels of information – beginner, intermediate and advanced. Carbon Cycle – ecosystem functioning / biogeochemical cycles
Coral Reefs on a Changing Planet Information and related links
Interactive Quizzes Interactive Quizzes Email an oceanographer Ask Dr Bob bob-stewart@neo.tamu.edu
Coral Reef Ecology and Threats From the Coral Reef Alliance
Coral bleaching and coral reef destruction In depth article by Anup Shah
Coral Bleaching Satellite and information data on coral bleaching from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
National Sea Grant Library: The National Sea Grant Library (NSGL) is the digital library and official archive for NOAA Sea Grant documents. This collection encompasses a wide variety of subjects, including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, aquatic nuisance species, coastal hazards, seafood safety, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation, and law.
Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries: Information on endangered species conservation, marine mammal conservation, and protected marine species.
ReefBase: A Global Information System For Coral Reefs: The ReefBase Global Database provides country-level data and information. ReefBase's Online Geographic Information System (ReefGIS) allows you to display coral reef related data and information on interactive maps. The ReefBase Online Library allows searching the collection of coral reef related articles, reports and publications.
Endangered Species Program: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Web site for information on endangered species in the United States.
Global Invasive Species Database: This searchable database focuses on invasive alien species that threaten native biodiversity and covers all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants in all ecosystems. Species information is either supplied by or reviewed by expert contributors from around the world.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: This searchable database of threatened plants and animals contains taxonomic and distribution information for each species. The system is designed to determine the relative risk of extinction and to catalog those species whose risk is at the highest rate for global extinction.
National Invasive Species Information Center: The National Agricultural Library's gateway to invasive species information. Provides lists of Web resources by state as well as links to resources on aquatic species, terrestrial plants and animals, and microbes.
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre: Includes interactive maps, species information, global biodiversity atlases, and critical ecosystem information. Seagrass, coral, tropical rainforest, and mangrove ecosystems covered in detail.
https://libguides.msben.nsw.edu.au/ld.php?content_id=40290055 : Ocean Conservation and Management (report, Australia, 2016)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/tundra.html
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/experiments/biome/biotundra.php
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/deserts.html
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/experiments/biome/biodesert.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/ecosystems/savannah_grassland_video.shtml
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/exhibits/cheetah-conservation-station
https://lib2.colostate.edu/wildlife/results.php?q=grasslands&field=description
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/experiments/biome/biograssland.php