Human Impact on the Environment

Listed below are several resources that may help you in finding out more information about your resource.  When you get on a website, feel free to look around and see what other information they have.  These links should just be a starting point.

Water:

• EIA Kids Environmental Impacts: Fossil Fuels, Hydropower (water), uranium, biomass (wood): http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=environment_home-basics
• EIA Energy Perspectives, with links to consumption types over time: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/perspectives.cfm
• Carbon Dioxide Sink: http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/carbon_dioxide_sink.htm
• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change (kidsy overview): http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/index.html
• Kiribati Relocation: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/kiribati/9127576/Entire-nation-of-Kiribati-to-be-relocated-over-rising-sea-level-threat.html
• EPA Climate Change page: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/climateindicators-full-2012.pdf
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/northwest.html
• Aral Sea Photos: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-40-years-have-wrought-the-earth-since-1972/260192/#slide1
• An Introduction to Water Quality Monitoring http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/monitoring/monintr.cfm
• Water Use in the United States: http://water.usgs.gov/watuse/
  

Soil:

• Major Land Uses Report: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/major-land-uses.aspx#.UYcbMrVaySo
• Carbon Dioxide Sink: http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/carbon_dioxide_sink.htm
• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change (kidsy overview): http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/index.html
• EPA Climate Change page: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/climateindicators-full-2012.pdf
• Why is soil important?  http://www.envirothon.org/pdf/CG/Why_Soil_is_Important.pdf
• http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/two-ways-people-use-soil-resource-20353.html
• http://soils.usda.gov/use/
• What if the World's Soil Runs http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/what-if-the-worlds-soil-runs-out/print/
• Status and Trends of Land Change in the Western United States- 1973 to 2000: http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1794/a/pp1794a.pdf
• Losing Ground: Rethinking Soil as a [Renewable] Resource: http://www.fewresources.org/soil-science-and-society-were-running-out-of-dirt.html
  

Fossil Fuels:

• EIA Kids Environmental Impacts: Fossil Fuels, Hydropower (water), uranium, biomass (wood): http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=environment_home-basics
• EIA Energy Perspectives, with links to consumption types over time: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/perspectives.cfm
• Atmospheric CO2 Levels Article: http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/05/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-approach-record-high-400ppm/
• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change (kidsy overview): http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/index.html
• EPA Climate Change page: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/climateindicators-full-2012.pdf
• http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/energy/ecostats/index.cfm
• Monitoring System for CO2 from Fossil Fuel Burning http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2012/2012-20.shtml
  
• Fossil Fuels Overview: http://www.iptv.org/exploremore/energy/profiles/fossil_fuels.cfm

Land:

• Major Land Uses Report: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/major-land-uses.aspx#.UYcbMrVaySo
• Atmospheric CO2 Levels Article: http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/05/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-approach-record-high-400ppm/
• Carbon Dioxide Sink: http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/carbon_dioxide_sink.htm
• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change (kidsy overview): http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/index.html
• EPA Climate Change page: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/climateindicators-full-2012.pdf
• Land Usage: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib-economic-information-bulletin/eib14.aspx#.UYkoT6JOQU
• Easy to Understand Website: http://www.syngenta.com/country/uk/en/learning-zone/KS12/FFE/Pages/WorldApple.aspx  (Thanks Ashlynne!!)
• Deforestation: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-40-years-have-wrought-the-earth-since-1972/260192/#slide1
• Monitoring Land Use: http://cpluhna.nau.edu/Introduction/context.htm
• Land Use Changes During the Past 300 Years:http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C19/E1-05-01-04.pdf
• Status and Trends of Land Change in the Western United States- 1973 to 2000: http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1794/a/pp1794a.pdf

Uranium:

• EIA Kids Environmental Impacts: Fossil Fuels, Hydropower (water), uranium, biomass (wood): http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=environment_home-basics
• EIA Energy Perspectives, with links to consumption types over time: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/perspectives.cfm
• NRC: www.nrc.gov
• Use and regulations on Uranium: http://www.toroenergy.com.au/uranium-nuclear-markets/uranium-market/
• Use and regulations on Uranium: http://www.nrc.gov/materials/uranium-recovery.html
• Nuclear Power in the US: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-T-Z/USA--Nuclear-Power/#.UZKC2qJOQUW
• Uranium production per capita by country: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_ura_pro_percap-energy-uranium-production-per-capita
  

Wood:

• US Forest Facts and Historical Trends: http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/briefings-summaries-overviews/docs/ForestFactsMetric.pdf
• EIA Kids Environmental Impacts: Fossil Fuels, Hydropower (water), uranium, biomass (wood): http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=environment_home-basics
• Atmospheric CO2 Levels Article: http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/05/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-approach-record-high-400ppm/
• Carbon Dioxide Sink: http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/carbon_dioxide_sink.htm
• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change (kidsy overview): http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/index.html
• EPA Climate Change page: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/climateindicators-full-2012.pdf
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/northwest.html
• Monitoring Deforestation:  http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/Application6.1.html
• Deforestation: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203090126.htm
• EIA Energy Perspectives, with links to consumption types over time: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/perspectives.cfm
• Deforestation:  http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-40-years-have-wrought-the-earth-since-1972/260192/#slide1
• Measurement and Monitoring of the World's Forests:http://www.rff.org/RFF/Documents/RFF-Rpt-Measurement%20and%20Monitoring_Final.pdf
• Status and Trends of Land Change in the Western United States- 1973 to 2000: http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1794/a/pp1794a.pdf

Metals:

• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change (kidsy overview): http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/index.html
• EPA Climate Change page: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• Climate Change Indicators: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/climateindicators-full-2012.pdf
• Metal Mining and the Environment: http://www.agiweb.org/environment/publications/metalsfull.pdf
• A Short History of Metals: http://neon.mems.cmu.edu/cramb/Processing/history.html
• USGS Minerals Information: http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/#fs
• Historical Statistics for Mineral and Material Commodities in the United States: http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/
  

Air:

• Air Quality Trends: http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/aqtrends.html
• Atmospheric CO2 Levels Article: http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/05/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-approach-record-high-400ppm/
• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change (kidsy overview): http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/index.html
• EPA Climate Change page: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
• http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/climateindicators-full-2012.pdf
• Air Monitoring Methods http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/methods.html