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Climate Change Resources
For e-Books and Audiobooks on Climate Change, click here.
Examples:
Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges by Rainer Matyssek
Coming climate crisis? by Claire Parkinson
Framingham Public Library's periodicals collection is a good place to look for information and ideas on a wide range of subjects. See the Periodicals Page for the full list of library magazines and newspapers.
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Mother Earth Living
Mother Earth News
National Geographic
Popular Science
Scientific American
Sky & Telescope
Read Library Magazines Online
Did you know you can access current and back issues of popular magazines with your library card and Zinio? Download the Zinio app on your mobile device or read in your computer's browser. No holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.
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Minuteman Library Network databases can be used from the library computers, or from home with your library card. For articles on climate change, search the following databases:
Science in Context. Science in Context provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations, as well as articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics, and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
Credo. CREDO is a user-friendly search engine designed to help with research on thousands of topics. Just enter your search query (as you would in Google), and CREDO instantly scans millions of entries from over 70 publishers. Consider it your own private online reference library. Search results are drawn from the entire research collection, including images and sound files, enabling you to get relevant answers from a number of sources at once. Each reference title can also be accessed individually. New editions and new book titles are added regularly.
Titles of interest in Credo:
Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices, 2013
Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia, 2013
Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, 2012
Atlas of Climate Change, 2011
DK Eyewitness Books: Climate Change, 2008
Curriculum Connections: 21st Century Science: The Earth, 2010
Titles of interest in GVRL:
Environmental Encyclopedia, 2003
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 2014
Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources, 2006
Pollution A to Z, 2004
Global Issues in Context. Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Expanded Academic ASAP. From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images!
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
www.climatehotmap.org
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA
www.giss.nasa.gov
An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.takepart.com/an-inconvenient-truth
New American Dream
www.newdream.org
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
www.pewclimate.org
StopGlobalWarming.org
www.stopglobalwarming.org
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Change
www.epa.gov/climatechange
Union of Concerned Scientists: Global Warming
www.ucsusa.org/global_warming
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
www.ipcc.ch
World Wildlife Fund
www.worldwildlife.org