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August 2007- Regional Climate Reports

Aquinnah Cliff, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Aquinnah Cliff, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Credit: J.S. Aber

This August, Earthscape adds reports from several regions to the collection. The Union of Concerned Scientists has published Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts and Solutions that addresses the region and also breaks out the information in state specific reports. We continue to add to our resources on Asia with the addition of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research newsletters. The European Union has recently published a series of reports on adaptation to climate change that are included in this month’s update. The full text of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis, is now on Earthscape as well.

Educational Resources

One Planet Many People Atlas
This site allows you to browse the UNEP’s 332 page atlas which makes use of satellite images from Google Earth to document the global environmental changes resulting from natural processes and human-induced activities.

UK Climate Impacts Programme
The UKCIP offers an interactive tool they call the Adaptation Wizard. This wizard is designed to help you move through a process from simple understanding of climate change, to integration of climate change into decision-making by making use of these resources. The wizard draws heavily on the UKCIP technical report ‘Climate adaptation: Risk, uncertainty and decision-making’, developed with the UK Environment Agency.

Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment

The BioDaVersity Code

The Center launched a flash animation short titled "The BioDaVersity Code" - a spoof on The Da Vinci Code that encourages people to understand how human health depends on biodiversity.

World Wildlife Fund – Fun and Games
WWF offers a compilation of over 20 online games from their offices around the world. They are simple, fun and offer quick hits of high-quality educational content for the middle and high school audience.

From the Earthscape Archives

Formation, Evolution, and Stability of Coastal Cliffs - Status and Trends

Coastal and Marine Ecosystems & Global Climate Change

What differences have occurred in summer and winter weather in the Bering Sea in the past 30 years?

Using Population Projection Matrices to Evaluate Recovery Strategies for Snake River Spring and Summer Chinook Salmon

Paving Our Way to Water Shortages: How Sprawl Aggravates Drought

 

  

August 2007 Additions to Earthscape:

Papers: Policy

European Commission for the Environment

European Environment Agency

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Papers: Research

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

California Environmental Protection Agency

Union of Concerned Scientists

Journals

Earth Interactions

Journal of Climate