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Environmental issues and how we can help
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Environmental issues overview
12 Biggest Environmental Problems Of 2022
The Big Global Environmental Issues We Need to Resolve by 2030
A List Of The 17 Major Environmental Issues (Problems) We Face Today: How Do They Affect Us?
Top 6 Environmental Issues
Overfishing/Depletion
15 Facts About Overfishing
Ending Overfishing Through Annual Catch Limits
Fish and Overfishing
How Does Overfishing Threaten Coral Reefs?
How Overfishing Threatens the World's Oceans—and Why it Could End in Catastrophe
Overfishing
Overfishing
Quality Management and Continuous Improvement Success Stories
Rebuilding U.S. Fisheries: Success Stories
Rules and Consequences: How to Improve International Fisheries
Success Stories
What is Overfishing?
Water pollution
Ocean pollution
Causes & Effects of Ocean Pollution
How Does Stormwater Runoff Affect the Environment?
Ocean Pollution and Marine Debris
Runoff
Runoff
What is the Biggest Source of Pollution in the Ocean?
Guide to Marine Plastic Pollution
Drinking water
8 Common Water Pollutants That Contaminate Water Sources
Types of Drinking Water Contaminants
Water Pollution
Water Pollution: Everything You Need to Know
Soil depletion
The Soil Depletion Crisis
Soil Depletion and What It Means To You
How to Green the World's Deserts and Reverse Climate Change
Do We Really Need Pesticides?
Stop Treating Our Soil Like Dirt!
Air pollution
Air Pollution
Air Pollution
Al Gore: How to Make Radical Climate Action the New Normal
Bill Gates: The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster
Study: Air Pollution Disproportionately Impacts Minority Communities
TED Talk videos on air pollution
Using light to reverse air pollution | Brian Haas
Ocean acidification
Cap and trade
The Decline of Marine Biodiversity
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Acidification: Smithsonian
Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem
What is Ocean Acidification?
There's good news too!
The Good News about Climate Change
Positive News about the Environment
Sponge City Concepts Could Be The Answer to China’s Impending Water Crisis
Top 10 Most Exciting Environmental Stories From 2019 Raise Hope for An Eco-Friendly Year Ahead
GMO crops
Genetically Modified Foods
GM Crops List
GMOs Are Safe, But Don't Always Deliver On Promises, Top Scientists Say
Here's What Your Food Would Look Like if it Weren't Genetically Modified over Millennia
Making Plants Fit for Climate Change
Standing Up for GMOs
What You Need to Know About GMOs
Pro
The Debate About GMO Safety Is Over, Thanks To A New Trillion-Meal Study
GMO Facts: 10 Common GMO Claims Debunked
Keeping My Farm Sustainable With GMO Crops
Con
GMO Facts
Seeds of Doubt
Twenty Years of Failure
Why We are Against GMOs
Biodiversity loss
9 Innovative Solutions to Biodiversity Loss
10 Major Causes for the Loss of Biodiversity
Airborne DNA Can Reveal Earth’s Biodiversity
An Ambitious Strategy to Preserve Biodiversity
The Battle for the Soul of Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity Hotspots
Conservation and Restoration Ecology: Crash Course Ecology #12
From King Cobras to Geckos, 20 Percent of Reptiles Risk Extinction
The Global Movement to Restore Nature's Biodiversity
How Biodiversity Keeps Earth Alive
Life on Earth is Under Assault - But there's Still Hope
Main Effects Of Biodiversity Loss
Protecting Species for the Good of Global Climate
The Statistics of Biodiversity Loss
Ten Compelling Case Studies Making the Case for Biodiversity
Warning on Mass Extinction of Sea Life: ‘An Oh My God Moment’
What is Biodiversity?
Why is Biodiversity So Important?
Menlo databases
Britannica Academic
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Environmental Studies (Gale)
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Global Issues in Context (Gale)
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MAS Ultra (EBSCO)
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Nature
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Points of View (EBSCO)
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Science Reference Center (EBSCO)
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Scientific American
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Global warming
8 Ways Cities Are Fighting Climate Change & Environmental Decay
10 Countries Doing the Most to Fight Climate Change
Algal Blooms
Biden Administration Begins $3 Billion Plan for Electric Car Batteries
China’s Pledge to Be Carbon Neutral by 2060: What It Means
China’s View of Climate Change
Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves
Global Warming’s Local Solutions
Harmful Algae Blooms
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
How Urban Planners Are Reacting to Climate Change
New Rules Will End the Century-Long Run of Classic Light Bulbs
The Real-time Cost of Climate Change and the Needed Real-time Response
The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof
Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Sponge Cities: What is it All About?
Sponge City: What it is, How it is Designed, and Real Examples
UN: Droughts, Less Water in Europe as Warming Wrecks Crops
UN Issues New Guidance to Address Warming in Cities
What is Carbon Neutrality and How Can it be Achieved by 2050?
What Is Eutrophication and How Does It Cause Algal Blooms?
What’s China’s Role in Tackling Global Warming?
Deforestation
6 Solutions to Deforestation – and What You Can Do
Deforestation
Deforestation
Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Distribution of Forests
Effects of Dams on Pacific Salmon and Steelhead Trout
Explorer Profile: Tarin Toledo-Aceves, Ecologist
Forest Declaration Platform
How Can We Stop Deforestation?
Seeing Forests for the Trees and the Carbon
Solutions to Deforestation
We're a Long Way from Ending Deforestation, but We Can Still Stop It
World of Change: Amazon Deforestation
Plastics in the environment
Boyan Slat Unveils the Interceptor River Cleanup System
Do You Consume a Credit Card's Worth of Plastic Every Week?
In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics
It's Hard to Avoid Plastic While Grocery Shopping — Even for a Week
Microplastics
Microplastics Are a Big—and Growing—Part of Global Pollution
New Study Shows Plastics Release Greenhouse Gases, Contributing to Climate Change
The Ocean Cleanup Begins Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic Pollution
Plastic waste and climate change - what's the connection?
The Surprising Solution to Ocean Plastic
The Surprising Solution to Ocean Plastic
Watch This Modern Technology Remove Millions of Plastics From The Ocean
What Really Happens to the Plastic You Throw Away
Why 99% of Ocean Plastic Pollution is "Missing"
The World's Plastic Pollution Crisis Explained
Guide to Marine Plastic Pollution
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