Environment Search: Environmental News Network is a comprehensive environment portal, with environmental news, articles, daily feature stories, forums, live chats, and more. You can search their archive of over 40,000 articles dating back to Jan. 1, 1997 from here: find this: Two satellites, Terra, launched on December 18, 1999, & Aqua, launched on May 4, 2002, are the flagships in NASA's Earth Observing System. Terra & Aqua both carry a number of instruments, including the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS, which measures light in 36 frequency bands at three different resolutions. Another important instrument is the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, or MISR. Viewing the Earth at nine widely spaced angles, MISR collects global images with high spatial detail in four colors at every angle, enabling more accurate estimates of the total amount of sunlight reflected by Earth's diverse environments. At the MODIS Rapid Response System Photo Gallery you can browse through or search for MODIS photos of fires, dust storms, icebergs, typhoons, and other major earthly events. Look here for the latest Earth images from all of NASA's Earth Missions. NASA's Earth Observatory is another, somewhat less technical interface to satellite imagery of the earth and its climate, and includes The Blue Marble, "the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date," with a variety of high resolution versions you can download, free for public use. The US Geophysical Survey's Earth Resources Observation Center Landsat Satellite Images of Environmental Change from 1972 to present. NASA's Visible Earth is "a consistently updated, central point of access to the superset of NASA's Earth science-related images, animations, and data visualizations. These images are considered to be public domain and, as such, are freely available to the interested public-at-large, the media, scientists, and educators for re-use and/or re-publication." The results include images from the Terra & Aqua earth observation satellites, and more. find this: The Environmental Defense Fund's Electricity Label Generator lets you input your electric bill and state, and it calculates the pollution released by your electricity usage. The Lifecycle Assessment Calculator figures metals, toxics, and energy input, and greenhouse gases output of cars, restaurants, roads, etc. over their lifetime. From the Carnegie-Mellon Green Design Initiative. The Global Recycling Network has waste commodity and stock prices, and a Recycling Career Center. Recycler's World provides recycling information and links. Well.com is the massive discussion forum presence of the Whole Earth Catalog/Quarterly people on the WWW. Covers a wide variety of subjects. The United Nations Population Division supplies information on World Population Trends, and a World Population Prospects Database. Negative Population Growth is trying to deal with the real problem, not just the symptoms. The US Census Bureau provides Historical World Population Estimates going back to the year 10,000 B.C. The Global Change Master Directory provides access to over 5200 datasets on global change. NOAA-NGDC provides a Primer on Global Warming 1998 was the warmest year in six centuries. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FAQs about CO2 and global climate change. Ozone Action is an organization concentrating on both global warming and ozone depletion. USGS provides stream flow data and other information about US Water Resources (including acid rain deposition) displayed in frequently updated maps, from a decade ago to today. The National Atmospheric Deposition Program (Acid Rain), has data from over 200 monitoring sites diplayed in annual maps.

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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently redesigned their website, removing some of their information presumably due to terrorism concerns. The site still has info on reporting a safety concerns, radiation protection, employment at the NRC, contracting with the NRC, and FOIA requests. They also have nuclear FAQs pages, and info about specific reactors (some of this is what appears to have been removed), safety and security concerns, and more.

The official word on Radioactive Waste from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Information on the US Department of Energy cleanup of nuclear weapons production facilities run by the Department of Defense, which is costing about $6 billion a year. From the "Resources for the Future" organization.

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The direct activism of Greenpeace gets them on the front pages more than any other environmental organization.
The Committee for the National Institute for the Environment was a silly name, so they changed it to the National Council for Science and the Environment. They have a population and environment database, and the full text of about 400 congressional reports on the environment.

Rachel.org is the Environmental Research Foundation.

Scorecard.org is the Environmental Defense Fund.

National Wildlife Federation

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TIME Magazine, October 28, 1957, p.60:     The world's 2.7 billion population has almost doubled in the past 70 years, is expected to redouble every 42 years hereafter, and is rapidly approaching the level (top estimate: 7 billion) beyond which scientists believe the earth can no longer sustain all its inhabitants...     ...said Dr. A. Eugene Staley, Stanford Research Institute's senior international economist: "Despite all the vaunted technological and economic progress of modern times, there are probably more poverty-stricken people in the world today than there were 50 years ago...     In Mexico... the value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980-- when Mexico's population will have doubled-- Mexico would have to boost national output 2500% (to $156 billion) and invest the astronomical sum of some $400 billion in capital. In Burma the same goal would take an 8,900% boost in G.N.P."