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  • Army on Everest - Follow the British Army's Everest West Ridge (EWR) 2006 expedition. Learn about the expedition's five teams and their training, route, and progress towards the summit. (featured in May 2006)
  • Breathing Earth - Artist David Bleja displays the globe's CO2 emission rates alongside each country's birth and death rates -- all in real-time. (featured in Dec 2006)
  • Canary Project, The - Dedicated to photographing landscapes around the world that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming. (featured in July 2006)
  • Climate Change: A Guide for the Perplexed - New Scientist debunks 26 of the most common myths and misconceptions about global warming. (featured in May 2007)
  • Fallen Fruit - Mapping and manifesto for free fruit. Find it, tend it, and harvest it. (featured in Mar 2006)
  • Global Climate Change: Research Explorer - Guide from the Exploratorium allowing one to explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and their living organisms. (featured in July 2002)
  • Global Underwear Crisis - YouTube film from Patagonia promotes the company's Common Threads garment recycling program. (featured in Feb 2007)
  • Imaging Everest - Online collection of Everest images captured on nine expeditions from 1921-1953. Includes galleries on sherpas, Tenzing and Hillary, and the history of Nepal and Everest. From the Royal Geographic Society. (featured in Aug 2003)
  • Night Sky in the World, The - Satellite monitoring of nocturnal light pollution around the world, and its impact on stellar visibility. Includes maps and images from the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute. (featured in Aug 2001)
  • Noiseways Project, The - Experience the effects of New York City noise pollution. (featured in Mar 2001)
  • NOVA: World in the Balance - PBS investigates the impact of forces that are radically changing populations in both rich and poor nations. Examines pollution in China, overpopulation in India, and how AIDS affects the adult population of Africa. (featured in Apr 2004)
  • Nuclear Nightmares: Twenty Years Since Chernobyl - Photo essay on the devastating 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. The black and white photographs of Robert Knoth, and the reporting of Antoinette de Jong, capture the continuing medical, economic, and social consequences of the disaster and nuclear power in the region. (featured in Apr 2006)
  • One World Journeys: Mercury Rising - A photo-documentary expedition to get a glimpse at Earth's response to global warming. With resources for teachers and students. (featured in Feb 2002)
  • Perfect Disaster - Discovery Channel series about perfect disasters, storms that are larger, more dangerous, and more deadly than any before them. Episodes explore what would happen if amajor metropolis were hit with a super tornado, the effects of a solar storm, a typhoon, megaflood, fire storm, or ice storm. (featured in Mar 2006)
  • Pick Your Poison - Environmentalist's guide to oil and gas companies. From The Sierra Club. (featured in Jan 2007)
  • Reports from a Warming Planet - Report on global climate change. Fom American RadioWorks. (featured in Jan 2007)
  • Roger Eritja: Fotographia de Natura - Professional nature photographer with a focus on insects features photo galleries, technical information on macrophotography, links, screen savers, stock images, and more. (featured in Mar 2001)
  • Scorecard - Database-backed pollution locator service allowing users to see chemical pollution on local street maps of their own community - and take action. (featured in Jan 2007)
  • Seacology - Nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to preserving the biodiversity of islands throughout the globe. (featured in Sep 2006)
  • Sprol - Planetary sightseeing blog. Visit some of the worst places in the world via satellite imagery. (featured in June 2005)
  • The Other Hawai'i - Honolulu Advertiser feature follows the historic Hokule'a voyaging canoe on an expedition of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. (featured in May 2004)


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