AP Environmental Science Useful Links

Current Events Article Sources:

• Links for Current Events Articles: http://goo.gl/PExPhC

Air Pollution Links:

• NASA EOS - Ozone Hole 2016, and a Historic Climate Agreement: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88998&src=eoa-iotd&_sm_au_=iVVQtt1WsSBrntZj

Below are useful links to help with the Forest Disease project:

• US Forest Service Forest Disease Map: https://foresthealth.fs.usda.gov//nidrm/

• US Forest Service Invasive Species, Pest, and Diseases: https://www.fs.fed.us/science-technology/invasive-species-pests-disease

• NC Forest Service Common Insects and Diseases: http://www.ncforestservice.gov/forest_health/common_forest_diseases.htm

• NC Forest Service Current Forest Health Concerns: http://www.ncforestservice.gov/forest_health/current_concerns.htm

• NC Forest Service: Diseases that affect the forests of North Carolina: http://www.ncforestservice.gov/forest_health/pdf/FHH/FHH_Diseases.pdf

• NC Forest Service: Insects that can affect the forests of North Carolina: http://www.ncforestservice.gov/forest_health/pdf/FHH/FHH_Insects.pdf

• US Forest Service: Major Forest Insect and Disease Conditions in the United States: 2013 https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/publications/ConditionsReport_2013.pdf

• American Chestnut Foundation: American Chestnut and Chestnut Blight: https://www.acf.org/the-american-chestnut/

Useful Links for Human Health & Disease Project:

• US Centers for Disease Control - Diseases and Conditions: https://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/

• UN World Heath Organization: http://www.who.int/topics/en/

Useful Links for Water Diversions Case Study Lab

Salton Sea

• Salton Sea Authority: http://saltonsea.ca.gov/

• USGS Salton Sea Science Center: https://www2.usgs.gov/saltonsea/

• University of California - Irving: Salton Sea Initiative: http://saltonsea.uci.edu/

• NY Times; Why the Salton Sea is Dying (2017): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/california-todaywhat-should-be-done-about-the-salton-sea.html?_r=0

• The Atlantic: Toxic Dust from a Dying California Lake (2015): https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/the-airborne-toxic-lake-event/414888/

• The New Yorker: They Dying Sea (2015): http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-dying-sea

• National Geographic: Can California Farmers Save Water and the Dying Salton Sea (2014)

• http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140218-salton-sea-imperial-valley-qsa-water-conservation/

• National Audobon Society: How do we save the Salton Sea? (2016): http://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2016/how-do-we-save-salton-sea

• Lake Chad Basin Commission: http://www.cblt.org/en/history-lake-chad-basin

• UN - Africa's Vanishing Lake Chad http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/april-2012/africa%E2%80%99s-vanishing-lake-chad

Aral Sea

• Columbia University: The Aral Sea Crisis: http://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm

• World Bank: Saving a Corner of the Aral Sea: http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2005/09/01/saving-a-corner-of-the-aral-sea

• NASA: Shrinking Aral Sea: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/aral_sea.php

• National Geographic: Aral Sea's Eastern Basin is Dry for the First Time in 600 Years: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141001-aral-sea-shrinking-drought-water-environment/

• WRI: Disappearance of the Aral Sea: http://www.wri.org/blog/2008/05/disappearance-aral-sea

• How the Soviet Union Created Central Asia's Worst Environmental Disaster: http://thediplomat.com/2014/10/how-the-soviet-union-created-central-asias-worst-environmental-disaster/

• Carleton College - Case Study: Mono Lake: http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/monolake/index.html

• American University - Case Study: Mono Lake: http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/ted/mono.htm

Colorado River

• Sharing Colorado River Water: History, Public Policy, and the Colorado River Compact: https://wrrc.arizona.edu/publications/arroyo-newsletter/sharing-colorado-river-water-history-public-policy-and-colorado-river

• National Geographic: Colorado River Management http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/19/new-voices-in-colorado-river-management/

• National Geographic: Change the Course: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/change-the-course/

• Once a Smelly Nuisance, Mexicali's Wastewater Now Brings Life to the Colorado Delta: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/tag/colorado-river-delta-series/

• Western Water Assessment: Colorado River History - http://wwa.colorado.edu/resources/colorado-river/index.html

• The New Yorker: The Disappearing River: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/the-disappearing-river

• Transboundary Water Governance in the Euphrates Tigris River Basin: http://www.e-ir.info/2015/07/22/transboundary-water-governance-in-the-euphrates-tigris-river-basin/

• The Economist: Less Fertile Crescent: http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21573158-waters-babylon-are-running-dry-less-fertile-crescent

• FAO: Euphrates - Tigris Basin: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/basins/euphrates-tigris/index.stm

• International Rivers: Three Gorges Dam Project: https://www.internationalrivers.org/campaigns/three-gorges-dam

• Scientific American: China's Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-three-gorges-dam-disaster/

• National Geographic: China's Three Gorges Dam, by the Numbers: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060609-gorges-dam.html

Useful Links for Renewable Energy Research Project

• • US Energy Information Agency (EIA) – http://www.eia.gov/

  • US Department of Energy (USDOE) – http://www.doe.gov/

  • US DOE Energy Education Resources - https://energy.gov/eere/energybasics/energy-basics

  • National Energy Education Development Project (NEED) – http://www.need.org/student

  • NEED Project Secondary Energy Sourcebook - http://www.need.org/files/curriculum/guides/Secondary%20Energy%20Infobook.pdf (A very good source for basic information, but it is a large PDF file)

  • Duke Energy Renewable Energy Programs - https://www.duke-energy.com/energy-education/renewable-energy

  • Union of Concerned Scientists - Clean Energy Programs - http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy#.WPUJ5eSQy70

  • International Energy Agency - http://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/

  • Biomass Report - https://www.usda.gov/oce/reports/energy/USbiopower_04_2014.pdf

  • EIA Electricity Cost - https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=19&t=3

  • Comparison of Energy Costs per kWh - http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/electric-generating-costs-a-primer/

Environmental Science Scavenger Hunt - Nonnative and Invasive Species List:

• • NC State Cooperate Extension Plant Guide (searchable pictures of plants): https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/category/trees/

  • NC Native Plant Society: http://www.ncwildflower.org/plant_galleries/invasives_list

  • NC State Invasive and Exotic Species: https://ncsu.edu/goingnative/howto/mapping/invexse/index.html

  • NC Invasive Plant Council: http://nc-ipc.weebly.com/piedmont-invasive-plants.html

  • NC Invasive Species List: http://www.sciencenc.com/event-help/InvasiveSpeciesList(BC)NC2016.pdf

  • Invasive Plants of Southeastern Forests: https://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr_srs119.pdf