Environmental Resources

List of Books, Articles & Websites

© Compiled by Simon Wat

[for any inquire: environmentalinquiry2020@yahoo.com]

 

Special Topics

(alphabetical order)

 

Table of Contents:

A – E

F – L

M – R

S - Z

Animals

Arctic’s frozen ground

Biodiversity

Birds

Carbon Pricing

Climate Change

Consumerism

Coral Reef

Diseases and Global Warming

Earth Overshoot Day (地球超載日)

Environmental Art

Environmental Racism

Environmental Refugees

Footprint

Forest

Global Warming

 

Plankton

Plastic

 

Shark

Tree (see Forest)

Water

 

 

 

Animals

關鍵評論:動物

https://www.thenewslens.com/category/animal

 

 

 

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Arctic's frozen ground

獨家編譯:當永久凍土融化時,其中儲存的碳會發生什麼?

https://kknews.cc/science/ank4yax.html

 

德國偵查飛機進入北極圈,記錄下地球驚人異變!

https://kknews.cc/science/np6kpv3.html  

 

Methane and Frozen Ground

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/frozenground/methane.html

 

 

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Biodiversity

自然大不同

https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/biodiversityinhk

 

Daphne Wong - Photographer & Filmmaker

https://www.facebook.com/daphnewongphoto/

 

 

 

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Birds

ENVSC 390 Environmental Geography-Bird Migration and Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZFSq6MtU8I

 

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

https://www.rspb.org.uk/

 

 

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Carbon Pricing

Carbon price (wiki)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_price

 

WHAT IS CARBON PRICING?

https://www.carbonpricingleadership.org/what/

 

Carbon Pricing in Canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/carbon-pricing-in-canada

 

These Countries Have Prices on Carbon. Are They Working? (April 2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/02/climate/pricing-carbon-emissions.html

 

 

 

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Climate Change

Global Warming / Climate Change Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

https://www.eesi.org/climate-change-FAQ#ocean-acidification

 

NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2unzHvFPtY0&feature=share

 

Climate Change: What Happens If The World Warms Up By 2°C?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GjrS8QbHmY&feature=youtu.be

 

Climate Change: What happens If The World Warms Up By 3°C?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xplesDv5hl0&feature=youtu.be

 

Climate Change: What Happens If The World Warms Up By 4°C?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqgbR3UK0es

 

 

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Consumerism

Consumer Behavior: The Emotional and Practical Motivations of Buying Behavior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mEVTLm43yQ

 

無節制消費的元兇(1)計劃性淘汰

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cxT3xKOm_U&t=842s

 

無節制消費的元兇(2)激發消費者的恐懼

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmvkfUFL9Dg

 

無節制消費的元兇(3)開發兒童市場

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QArHO4VFbX0

 

 

 

 

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Coral Reef

Coral Reefs

http://www.globalissues.org/article/173/coral-reefs

 

8 Easy Ways You Can Help Coral Reefs

https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/protect-water-and-land/land-and-water-stories/8-easy-ways-you-can-help-coral-reefs/

 

6 fascinating facts about coral reefs

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/5-fascinating-facts-about-coral-reefs

 

What’s Killing Coral Reefs? And How Can We Stop It?

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/whats-killing-coral-reefs-and-how-can-we-stop-it/

 

The Coral Restoration Foundation

https://www.coralrestoration.org/

 

Mapping the Decline of Coral Reefs

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Coral/coral.php

 

5 Main Causes of Coral Reef Destruction

https://www.leisurepro.com/blog/ocean-news/5-main-coral-reef-destruction/

 

What is coral bleaching?

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html

 

Climate Change Is Killing Coral On The Great Barrier Reef

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/18/602995137/climate-change-is-killing-coral-on-the-great-barrier-reef

                                     

An underwater investigation of coral bleaching in the South Pacific

https://time.com/coral/

 

 

 

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Diseases and Global Warming

施柏榮/是什麼讓我們進入瘟疫時代? 全球化、環境破壞與新型冠狀病毒

https://e-info.org.tw/node/222906

 

暖化恐讓冰層毒菌湧出 地球將重現大瘟疫

https://today.line.me/tw/pc/article/暖化恐讓冰層毒菌湧出%E3%80%80地球將重現大瘟疫-vzXDl5

 

How coronavirus impacts climate change with emissions reductions

https://abcnews.go.com/International/severe-reduction-emissions-coronavirus-mitigate-climate-change-long/story?id=69334246

 

Will Climate Change Unleash More Animal Viruses on Humans?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-ready-for-more-coronavirus-nightmares-thanks-to-climate-change

 

This Is How Global Warming Affects the Transmission of Diseases

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/research/this-is-how-global-warming-affects-the-transmission-of-diseases/

 

There are Diseases Hidden in Ice and They are Waking Up

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up

 

Climate change and health

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health

 

Climate change may accelerate infectious disease outbreaks, say researchers

Study of natural disaster in Ecuador showed 12-fold increase in Zika cases

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012122835.htm

 

How Climate Change Is Exacerbating the Spread of Disease

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2014/09/04/how-climate-change-is-exacerbating-the-spread-of-disease/

 

Academic Research:

The Effect of Global Warming on Infectious Diseases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766891/

 

Review on global warming and disease dynamics

http://internationalscholarsjournals.org/download.php?id=587433716239118186.pdf&type=application/pdf&op=1

 

One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?

(note: not relate to climate change but worth reading!)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468692/

 

 

 

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Earth Overshoot Day (地球超載日)

Earth Overshoot Day (wiki)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day

 

Earth Overshoot Day

https://www.overshootday.org/

 

 

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Environmental Art

Artists from around the world display effects of climate change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZ264GML98

 

Art Exhibit Highlights Impact of Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFmQsIdbzM

 

Re-Envisioning Climate Change Through Art | Marcus Moench | TEDxMileHigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZRGUADAu2Q

 

Why the arts are essential in addressing climate change? | Ben Twist | TEDxHeriotWattUniversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVqoTEcHrsI

 

Environmental Art (powerpoint presentation)

https://www.slideshare.net/mrsbauerart/environmental-art

 

Amazingly Creative Examples of Environmental Art

https://mymodernmet.com/environmental-art-calendar/

 

20 Unforgettable Works of Environmental Art

http://ecosalon.com/20_unforgettable_works_of_environmental_art/

 

What is Environmental Art?

https://www.healing-power-of-art.org/what-is-environmental-art/

 

To the Ends of the Earth: Art and Environment

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/17/to-the-ends-of-the-earth-art-and-environment

 

 

 

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Environmental Racism

Environmental racism (wiki)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_racism

 

Reading: Environmental Racism

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/alamo-sociology/chapter/reading-environmental-racism/

 

 

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Environmental Refugees

Environmental migrant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_migrant

 

50 Million Environmental Refugees By 2020, Experts Predict

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/environmental-refugees-50_n_826488?ri18n=true

 

Environmental Migration

https://migrationdataportal.org/themes/environmental_migration

 

Environmental Migration Portal

https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/

 

Environmental refugee

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/environmental-refugee/

 

Environmental refugees: a growing phenomenon of the 21st century

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692964/pdf/12028796.pdf

 

Do We Have Environmental Refugees?

https://greentumble.com/do-we-have-environmental-refugees/

 

 

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Footprint

simpleshow explains the Carbon Footprint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q7_aV8eLUE

 

What Are Carbon Footprints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwkh46MZuIc

 

Ecological Footprint

http://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/teacher_resources/webfieldtrips/ecological_balance/eco_footprint/

 

Global Footprint Network

https://www.footprintnetwork.org/

 

 

 

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Forest

Deforestation Effects on Climate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc7f5563azs

 

Climate 101: Deforestation | National Geographic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic-J6hcSKa8

 

The destruction of the Amazon, explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZAKPUQMw0

 

Amazonian Fires: The Fall and Rise of Deforestation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbqwT-RpoaA&t=1444s

 

The Social Lives of Forests book launch

(not only about the book, but about deforestation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KBvMG2H8Q

 

Australia fires (January 2020)

Australia fires kill half a billion animals as crisis mounts
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/australia-fires-nearly-half-a-billion-animals-killed-as-crisis-mounts.html

Map: How big are the Australia wildfires and where are they burning?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/map-how-big-are-the-australia-wildfires-and-where-are-they-burning-1.4755403

How Fireproof is You Plan?

https://twitter.com/NSWRFS

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Global Warming

Global Warming / Climate Change Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

https://www.eesi.org/climate-change-FAQ#ocean-acidification

 

Series of Graphs to explain the main factors – Interesting!

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/

 

Earth Temperature Timeline

https://xkcd.com/1732/

 

 

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Plankton

Oceans on the Brink: Dying Plankton, Dead Zones, Acidification

https://stephenleahy.net/2016/04/28/oceans-on-the-brink-dying-plankton-dead-zones-acidification/

 

New findings on plankton extinctions hold implications for species vulnerability to climate change

https://phys.org/news/2016-01-plankton-extinctions-implications-species-vulnerability.html

 

 

 

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Plastic

How microplastics may end up in your food, drink, air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCdgpJ_2nmY

 

Microplastics are everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjsrmFUmyh4

 

Are we underestimating microplastics in the marine environment?

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-underestimating-microplastics-marine-environment.html

 

Tracking your plastic: Exposing recycling myths (Marketplace)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aVYb-a7Uw&feature=youtu.be

 

What really happens to the plastic you throw away - Emma Bryce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xlNyWPpB8&feature=youtu.be

 

 

 

 

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Shark

Shark Cartilage Supplements Put to the Test to Cure Cancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUj7zKZHw9w

 

Can Sharks Get Cancer? (Yes!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZY89C6tCM

 

10 Facts About Great White Sharks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F69uqDIhr60

 

How severe are shark population decreases, and how do we know?

http://www.southernfriedscience.com/how-severe-are-shark-population-decreases-and-how-do-we-know/

 

Oceach

 

·        Has tagged sharks tracking paths https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/?list

·        15 mins getting samples from shark  https://www.ocearch.org/science/

 

Safeguard the Seas

https://safeguardtheseas.org/about-sharks/

 

International Shark Finning Bans and Policies

https://awionline.org/content/international-shark-finning-bans-and-policies

 

Government of Canada bans shark finning (news release June 20, 2019)

https://www.canada.ca/en/fisheries-oceans/news/2019/06/government-of-canada-bans-shark-finning.html

 

H.R.81 - Shark Conservation Act of 2009 (U.S.)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/81

 

Peter Benchley at the Shark Research Institute

https://www.sharks.org/

 

The Terrifying Truth About Sharks | Graham Buckingham | TEDxKingstonUponThames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek3MbbNnwMs

 

Peter Benchley the author of Jaws talked about Shark protection!

 

·        Why the author of ‘Jaws’ wished he never wrote it

https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2015/06/19/why-the-author-of-jaws-wished-he-never-wrote-it

 

·        Peter Benchley talks 'Jaws' on Greater Boston in 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9O5XxuNYfE

 

 

鯊魚保育教材

http://www.congratulafins.org/resources.html

 

細說鯊魚

https://scitechvista.nat.gov.tw/c/sWXN.htm

 

 

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Tree

Ecology In and Around a Dead Tree

https://www.thoughtco.com/tree-snag-ecology-1342606

 

What Causes a Tree to Die?

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-causes-trees-to-die-conditions-that-kill-trees-1342913

 

10 Bad Things We Do to Our Trees

https://www.thoughtco.com/bad-things-we-do-to-our-trees-1342695

 

 How to Identify a Tree by Its Leaves, Flowers, or Bark

https://www.thoughtco.com/these-tree-parts-identify-1343508

 

The Difference Between a Simple and Compound Tree Leaf

https://www.thoughtco.com/simple-and-compound-tree-leaf-4051112

 

How to Maintain a Tree Through the Next Decade

https://www.thoughtco.com/maintain-a-tree-through-the-next-decade-1342667

 

3 Types of Wounds That Trees Suffer

https://www.thoughtco.com/prescriptions-for-wounded-trees-branch-1342706

 

Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees

https://www.ecosia.org/

 

 

 

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Water

Asian Development Bank (Focus on Water)

https://www.adb.org/sectors/water/main

                  

Global Water Partnership

(Our MISSION is to advance governance and management of water resources for sustainable and equitable development.)

https://www.gwp.org/

 

Maude Barlow,

(Canadian Activist mainly focus on clean and justice for water, Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians)

1.     About Barlow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Barlow

https://twitter.com/MaudeBarlow

https://www.facebook.com/MaudeBarlow

 

2.     Conserve and Protect Our Water, Guelph, September 12, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8qR_XTet4&t=489s

 

3.     Who owns water? by Maude Barlow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woQwHJ2_EDA

 

United Nations Development Program (UNDP): Water and Ocean Governance

  https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development/planet/environment-and-natural-capital/water-and-ocean-governance.html

 

 

 

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