Research Paper Links
I hope that these links help to guide you in your research
process. Do keep in mind that if you use any material
from these sites, you are obligated to cite your source in MLA format.
Check out section 56a & b in your Bedford Handbook for citation
guidelines.
Evaluating Sources
Factors to consider
Earth Clock: watch
all sorts of environmental counting, including population, temperature, C02
emissions, etc.
Green Guide: an
excellent clearing house of environmental information.
Overpopulation
World Population Awareness
World
Population Clock
Rain Forest Destruction
Rain Forest Soil
Problems (for conventional agriculture or beef production)
National Honey Bee Die-Off
National
Bat Die-Off
Mercury in the
Environment and Food (tuna), Water, Air
Coral Reef Bleaching
Bioprospecting
and Biopiracy
Patenting Life Forms
Plastics and Problems Associated with Them
(also see endocrine disruptors)
Coltan and Genocide in the Congo
Tin
Production in the Congo
Lack of fresh water: World Water Day
World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund (and the environmental effects)
Problems
with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Temple Grandin, McDonalds, and Slaughterhouses
Mad Cow Disease
Largest beef recall
to date
Staff infections
that are entirely resistant to antibiotics (related to this: Michael
Pollan's website)
Animal Testing
for consumer products
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Overfishing of the oceans
150 dead zones in the oceans of
the world (UN Report)
Decline of amphibians (another canary in the coal
mine)
California's Air
Quality Resources Board's Battle with Auto Manufacturers to Produce Cleaner Cars
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Drilling
Mountaintop removal in West Virginia (for coal fired electrical plants)
Recycling
Plastics and Problems Associated with Them
Golden Rice as a solution
Drug
resistant bacteria affecting soldiers
Polar bears threatened by loss of sea ice
Nuclear Weapons & All Things Nuclear
Nuclear
Weapons Testing
Hanford Nuclear
Reservation Watch Group
Nuclear
Stockpiles
Advances in Nuclear Power
Nuclear Waste (transportation issues, Yucca Mountain)
Military Nuclear Waste Sites (Hanford, Savannah River Tennessee,
etc.)
Depleted Uranium Munitions in US Conflicts
Alternative Energies:
Hydrogen
Wind
Geothermal
Kinetic
Alternative Cars
Electric Cars
Ethanol driven cars (and problems with it)
Plug-in Hybrids
Air cars
Bio diesel
Popular
Mechanics (drive green site)
Popular Mechanics (alternative and conventional fuel comparison)
The Problems with Oil as an Energy Source
Peak Oil
Oil Subsidies: How the
government is not really allowing a level playing field
Oil Spills (especially recent ones in the SF Bay Area, Russia; decision by the
US Supreme Court on the Exxon Valdez spill)
Petrochemicals in household products and massive rise in cancer rates
General Search Engines
Dogpile.com
Metacrawler.com
Libraries
CR Library
Humboldt State
University's Library
Other
Libraries
Topics that other students have considered for research papers
(Problem/Solution):
Environmental despair and how environmental heroes are
leading us out of that
Peak Oil: How Much Is Left? And what's a good strategy
to replace it
Plastic and their harmful effects on the environment and humans:
alternates and recycling
Problems with conventional light bulbs (various kinds and how much energy they use,
disposability) and best solution to replace them
Salmon decline and how to remedy it
Genetically modified organisms and foods and how to avoid
them or their widespread use
North Pacific Garbage/Plastic Gyre and how to fix it
Hunting of whales and how to slow or stop it
Environmental injustice (pollution affecting the poor,
disenfranchised, and minorities) and how to remedy it
Effects of fast food production on the environment and how to
slow or stop it
Bleaching of coral reefs and how to remedy it
Conventional energies (coal and oil) and alternate energy sources
to replace them: wind, solar, hydrogen, fusion, etc.
Unethical treatment of animals and how to remedy it
Meat based diet and the problems associated with it, as well
as the solutions
SUVs and problems associated with them, as well as a better
alternative
Problems associated with Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil
drilling and the solution(s)
Lack of potable water worldwide and solutions to that problem
Rainforest destruction and how to slow or to stop it
Dolphin/tuna problems and how to slow or to stop them
Species decline and extinction and how to slow or to stop it
Strip mined coal and how to prevent environmental degredation
associated with it
Coltan mining and genocide and rape in the Congo and to slow
or to stop it
Attacks on the Endangered Species Act and how to slow or stop
them
Problems associated with overpopulation (choose just one) and
how to remedy it
Mountain lion attacks in California and how to prevent or to
stop them
Oil spills and environmental damage and how to slow or to
stop them
Unethical behavior of Royal Dutch Shell and Unocal
overseas (as well as other oil companies) and how to slow or to stop it
Privatization of water and how to slow or to stop it
World Bank and International Monetary Fund and negative
environmental practices and how to slow or to stop them
Radiation in the environment: nuclear waste storage, depleted
uranium shells, etc.--and how to slow or to stop it
Problems associated with conventional energy production and
how nuclear power offers a solution
Nuclear debacles: Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, loss of
plutonium, other accidents--and how to prevent future such events
Consumption and its refuse, as well as how recycling offers
an alternative
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