Environmental Impact

-Key Sources-

• EBSCO: GreenFILE

EBSCO GreenFILE content focuses on covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. The scholarly and government publications included in GreenFILE detail topics such as pollution, global warming, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and recycling.      

• The Nature Conservancy 

The Nature Conservancy is an environmental nonprofit that utilizes scientific research and data to set goals and work to implement conservation solutions that address environmental issues.

• NASA Earthdata: Human Impact Data

NASA Earthdata collects and organizes data detailing the causes and effects of environmental issues including climate change, deforestation, pollution, and more.

-Additional Resources-

Databases

Use the list of "Useful Keywords and Phrases" at the bottom of the page to explore these databases

• Explora 

• EBSCOhost Student Resources/Research Databases - 

  • GreenFILE

  • Academic Search Premier 

  • MAS Reference eBook Collection 

  • MAS Ultra - School Edition 

  • MasterFILE Premier 

  • TOPICsearch 

  • ERIC

• Gale eBooks 

  • Alternative Energy

K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Kathleen J. Edgar, eds.

• • Climate Change: In Context

Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, eds. 

• • Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy

J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, eds. 

Online Encyclopedias

• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

• Federal Register: Environment

Websites

• Human Impact on the Environment from PBS Learning Media - https://nhpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/climate-change-understanding-the-impact/

• National Geographic: Human Impacts on the Environment - https://www.nationalgeographic.org/topics/resource-library-human-impacts-environment/?q=&page=1&per_page=25

• National Geographic: Human Ingenuity - https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/our-focus/human-ingenuity/

• USDA: Conservation Resources for Farmers and Landowners - https://www.farmers.gov/conservation

• A Brief History of Environmentalism - Greenpeace International - https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/11658/a-brief-history-of-environmentalism/

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History- The Age of Humans: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Anthropocene - https://humanorigins.si.edu/research/age-humans-evolutionary-perspectives-anthropocene

• Society of Environmental Journalists - https://www.sej.org/

• Anthropocene Magazine - https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/

• Future Earth - https://futureearth.org/

Videos, Photos, and Media Galleries

• Bill Nye: Scientific Thinking and Climate Change

• Transportation's Contribution to Climate Change

• Are Trees Renewable Resources?

• Environmental Engineering: Shoreline Protection That Restores Aquatic Habitats

• Fort Worth: Gas, Waste, and Water

• Priceless

• How To Reduce Human-Caused Environmental Changes

• The Causes of Climate Change

• Images of Change - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Print Resources 

(more available under "Other Libraries" below)

• Envir-Lit Jah, Jahren, Hope, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here

• Envir-Lit Nye, Nye, Bill, Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

• 363.7 Con, Miller, Debra A., Conserving the Environment

• Envir-Lit Sch, Schmidt, Gavin, Climate Change: Picturing the Science

• Envir-Lit Pet, Peterson, Christy, Earth Day and the Global Environmental Movement

• Envir-Lit Keo, Keogh, Martin J., Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

Global Associations

• The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS)

Contact Information: 

1250 H Street NW, Suite 850

Washington, DC 20005

Phone: (202) 266-4920

Fax: (202) 266-4937

Email: ecos@ecos.org                                                                     

• Naturefriends International

Contact Information: 

Victoriagsse 6/1

A-1150 Vienna

Email: office@nf-int.org

• National Environmental Health Association

Contact Information: 

20 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 105A

Denver, CO 80246-1910

Toll Free: (844) 331-2547

Phone: (303) 756-9090

• Global Footprint Network 

Contact Information: 

1528 Webster Street, Suite 11

Oakland, CA 94612 USA

Phone: (510) 839- 8879

• International Union for Conservation of Nature

Contact Information: 

1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 3rd Floor,

Suite 300

20009 Washington, D.C.

United States of America

Phone: (202) 387- 4826

• Natural Resources Defense Council

Contact Information: 

40 West 20th Street

11th Floor

New York, NY 10011

Phone: (212) 727- 2700

Government Agencies

• USDA Forest Service: Conservation Education 

Contact Information: 

1400 Independence Avenue SW

Washington, D.C. 20250

Phone: (800) 832- 1355

• USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service

Contact information varies- click here for more information

• United States Environmental Protection Agency 

Contact Information:  

P.O. Box 42419

Cincinnati, OH 45242-0419

Phone: (800) 490-9198

Email: nscep_nepis.tech@epa.gov

• NASA Earthdata

Contact information: 

Email: support@earthdata.nasa.gov 

Other Libraries

Bethlehem Public Library

Contact Information: 

2245 Main Street

Bethlehem, NH 03574

Phone: (603) 869-2409

• • 363.73 GOR, Gore, Al, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It 

  • 304.28 WAL, Wallace-Wells, David, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Littleton Public Library

Contact Information:  

92 Main St. 

Littleton, NH 03561

Phone: (603) 444-5741

Email: littlib@gmail.com

• 304.2 WOR, Worthy, Kenneth, Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment

• 363.7 GOR, Gore, Al, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit

• 509.2 WUL, Wulf, Andrea, The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World 

AUDIO BOOK 509.2 WULF, Wulf, Andrea, The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World 

• 304.28 KOL, Kolbert, Elizabeth, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

-Key Sources-

• The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire 

The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire has been working to study, protect, and preserve the state's natural resources since 1961.

• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service New Hampshire

NRCS New Hampshire focuses on the protection of the state's air, water, soil, plants, and animals through research and implementation of energy-efficient conservation practices.

-Additional Resources-

Databases

Use the list of "Useful Keywords and Phrases" at the bottom of the page to explore these databases

• New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services- Onestop Search

• Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study 

Websites

• United States Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Information for New Hampshire - https://www.epa.gov/nh/environmental-information-new-hampshire

• The Environmental Council of the States: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services - https://www.ecos.org/members/new-hampshire/

• NHPR: Environmental Protection Agency - https://www.nhpr.org/tags/environmental-protection-agency

• Climate Reality - How Does the Climate Crisis Affect New England? -

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-does-climate-crisis-affect-new-england

• UNH Today - College of Life Sciences & Agriculture - https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/topics/college-life-sciences-agriculture

Videos, Photos, and Media Galleries

• Climate Change- What does it mean for New Hampshire?

• Instream Flow Program: Water for People and Wildlife

• New Hampshire Agriculture

• New Hampshire Forestry

• New Hampshire Soils

• New Hampshire Water Quality

• New Hampshire Before and After Conservation Practices

Print Resources

(see "Other Libraries" listed below)

State Associations

• New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions

Contact Information: 

54 Portsmouth Street

Concord, NH 0330

Phone: (603) 224-7867

• Environment New Hampshire

Contact Information: 

76 Fort Eddy Plaza #1011

Concord, NH 03301

Phone: (603) 637-4757

Government Agencies

• New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

Contact Information:  

29 Hazen Drive

Concord, NH 03301

Phone: (603) 271- 3503

• New Hampshire Fish and Game: Climate Change and Wildlife 

Contact Information: 

11 Hazen Drive

Concord, NH 03301

Phone: (603) 271-3421

• NH Division of Forests and Lands: Forest Protection and Conservation

Contact Information: 

172 Pembroke Road

Concord, NH 03301

• United States Environmental Protection Agency: New Hampshire

Contact Information: 

5 Post Office Square, Suite 100

Boston, MA 02109-3912

Other Libraries

Littleton Public Library

Contact Information:  

92 Main St.

Littleton, NH 03561

Phone: (603) 444-5741

Email: littlib@gmail.com

• 304.209 NAT, American Life and Land Series, Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast

• 577.09742 SPE, Sperduto, Daniel D., The Nature of New Hampshire: Natural Communities of the Granite State