Mt. Everest sunset
Credit: The Mountain Institute

This month Earthscape completes the collection of publications from The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). We have also added to the collection of Congressional Research Service reports to Congress on climate change topics.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the non-partisan public policy research arm of the United States Congress housed within the Library of Congress. The National Council for Science and the Environment offers the most extensive collection of recent CRS reports relating to the environment available online. CRS researches and reports on topics of interest to and directly requested by Senators and Representatives.

Webcast

A California Climate Policy Forum
The BrenSchool of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Jody Freeman

Jody Freeman,
Director, Harvard Environmental Law Program

Do California’s efforts to control greenhouse gases – such as the passage of AB32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 – represent genuine leadership and meaningful progress in addressing climate change?  Five policy experts, convene at the Bren School to debate the status and future of California’s climate policies.

Educational Resources

U.S. EPA Teaching Center
This site offers background information on a variety of topics, lesson plans, and activities that work in and out of the classroom. Also offered is information on workshops, conferences, grants, awards and a variety of other information to assist educators meet  goals whether in a traditional classroom setting, an outdoor classroom, a community center or at home.

Seminars on Science
The American Museum of Natural History developed Seminars on Science, its online teacher professional development program, in order to connect teachers across the United States and around the world to the latest scientific research and to provide them with powerful but practical classroom resources.

Earthguide
Earthguide is an educational website from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with a focus on earth, environmental, and oceanographic sciences, and global change. The site is intended to be useful to K-12 teachers and students, as well as the general public. The site includes stories that document research expeditions by Scripps scientists, and makes available key diagrams, maps, and images in earth and oceanographic sciences.

Dr. Global Change
The U.S. Global Change Research Information Office offers "Dr. Global Change", a reference service that assists users in finding data and information concerning changes to the global environment. They focus on the major elements of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, as outlined in "Our Changing Planet".

From the Earthscape Archives

CRS Report for Congress 97-1007 F -- Nuclear Testing and Comprehensive Test Ban: Chronology Starting September 1992

CRS Issue Brief for Congress IB10109 - Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 108th Congress

CRS Issue Brief for Congress: Western Water Resource Issues

CRS Issue Brief for Congress IB10132 - Ocean Commissions: Ocean Policy Review and Outlook