Online Resources

General information

• EarthTrends
• Encyclopedia of Earth
• Environment (Textbook) Companion
• Global Footprint Network

Reports and assessments

• Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 (CBD)
• Global Environmental Outlook (UNEP)
• Human Development Report 2011: Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All (UNDP)
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Reefs at Risk Revisited (WRI)
• The State of the World's Children, Special Edition: Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF)
• Trade and Development Report, 2011: Post-crisis Policy Challenges in the World Economy (UNCTAD)
• World Fertility Report: 2007 (UNDESA)
• World Population in 2300 (UNDESA)
• World Urbanization Prospects: The 2009 Revision (UNDESA)

Government agencies

• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
• United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Observatory (USNASA-EOS)

Non-governmental Organizations

• International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO, The interactive Earth system graphic is particularly impressive)
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
• World Resources Institute (WRI)

Member organizations

• Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Environmental justice

• Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ)
• Climate Justice Now!
• Northeastern University Environmental Justice Research Collaborative

News articles discussed

• CHRGJ (2011). Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights, and the Agrarian Crisis in India. Report, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law, New York, New York, United States. URL: http://goo.gl/IEZ2N
• Jervis, R. (13 Sep 2011). Drought threatens way of life for Texas ranchers. USA Today. URL: http://goo.gl/wkaqC
• Marszal, A. (11 Sep 2011). Coral reefs 'will be gone by the end of the century'. The Independent. URL: http://goo.gl/9Xxq8
• Wisniewski (8 Sep 2011). Weather disasters keep costing U.S. billions this year. Reuters. URL: http://goo.gl/P7biS
• UCS (2007). Smoke Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to "Manufacture Uncertainty" on Climate Change. Investigative Report, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. URL: http://goo.gl/ixBdW
• LiveScience Staff (16 August 2011). Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming. LiveScience. URL: http://goo.gl/ou1wr

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