High School Resources
Aquatic Ecology Resources
Soils/Land Use Resources
Forestry Resources
Wildlife Resources
Oral Presentation Resources
Current Environmental Issues
Core CEI Resources
Introduction to Current Environmental Issues
Mixed Messages Obscure the Importance of Action
Making Decisions Based on Scientific Uncertainty
Featured Watershed—Broad River
Watershed
– (Changing from Featured Conservationist)
1.
Broad River Basin—(DENR)
2.
Town of Lake Lure-Erosion Control-Do your Part to Stop Sedimentation (Town of
Lake Lure web site)
Climate Change
3.
The Next ice Age – (Discover
Magazine-Brad Lemley 2002)
4.
Global Climate
Change—Causes – (Climate.nasa.gov)
5.
Rising Seas May Make N.C. Coast Unrecognizable—(Bruce Henderson-Charlotte
observer)
Biodiversity/Wildlife
6.
Biodiversity Background Information for Educators—(American Forest
Foundation-PLT)
7.
SpongeBob-Mushroom Discovered in the Forests of Borneo—(Science daily/2011)
8.
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Maintaining Natural Life Support
Processes—(Ecological Soc. Of America)
9.
Rising Seas
Endanger Wetland Wildlife—(Smithsonian – 2010)
10.
White-Nose Syndrome and North Carolina—an Overview (US F&WS & NC WRC)
Energy/ Air Quality
11.
This Northeast N.C. Wind Farm has a Chance-(John Murawski-Raleigh News &
Observer)
12.
New Japanese Wind Turbine Triples Power Output Without Increasing Size
(Siegel-2011)
13.
Hydraulic Fracking of Oil & Gas Wells Drilled in Shale—(Geology.com)
14.
Rising—(Rodney Foushee-WINC-2000)
15.
Blowing in the Wind—(USDA-ARS)
Stormwater/LID
16.
The Consequences of Urban Stormwater Pollution—(National Resource Defense
Council)
17.
Raleigh Retail project Demanded Customized Engineering—(biz.journal.com-2010)
18.
Stormwater and You—DENR
19.
Rainfall, Runoff, and
Land Use--- (Dr. Jane Frankenberger)
20.
Low Impact Development-NRDC
21.
Urban Waterways—(Dept. of Biological
and Agricultural Engineering-NCSU)
Conservation/Consumerism/&Marine
22.
N.C.
Helps Create Forests from Trees (Weeks Act)—(US Forest Service)
23.
Sparing the Rare
Earths—(Science News-2011)
24.
Japan’s Tsunami Debris Headed for California Beaches—(calcoast news-2011)
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