Birds-eye views

• Franklin Institute hawk nest Webcam
• Pennsylvania falcon cam
• New Jersey falcon cam
• MIT hawk videos

Wind farm to go up off Jersey Shore

• The report: Read the full draft (4.66 MB pdf)
• Press release: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Comment: E-mail a question or public comment to NOAA (deadline: 2/20/09)

 
Resources for a green funeral

• Green Burial Council
• A Natural Undertaking
• West Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Amazon.com: Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

 Concerns about plastics

• Graphic: How to limit your exposure
• Links: Reports and resources on plastic safety
• Article: Plastic peril: bisphenol A

All about calk and calking

• Federal Energy Star program 
• U.S. Department of Energy
• Energy Coordinating Agency
   

Cleanup of the Athos I oil spill

• Animation: Construction of a wind turbine
• About: The 350MW plan
• Inquirer archive: Wind farms proposed off Jersey shore 

• Read the Brookings Institution report
• "Snapshots" of each metro area (pdf)

 
EPA issues new health standard for smog

• EPA: Map showing 28 counties, four here, projected to still be in violation by 2020 (pdf)
• EPA: New standard's details and background 
• Inquirer archive: EPA gets an earful over smog proposal   
• Inquirer archive: Smog vs. breath: As government and industry grapple over levels and standards, asthma sufferers put an urgent, gasping human face on the problem

Daylight Savings Time

• U.S. Department of Energy | About the movement and the law

• Penn State | H2E Center
• Research article | Using bacteria to produce hydrogen gas
   

TCE emissions from Collegeville plants

• Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future | Preliminary technical report recommends 90 percent cut (pdf)

• Superior Tube Co. | 60 percent reduction achieved voluntarily (pdf)

• Background information | Previously released documents and reports

State of California vs. U.S. EPA

• California | Announcement of state's lawsuit, citing new technical report
• Pennsylvania | Statement by Gov. Ed Rendell
• New Jersey | Comments by Attorney General Anne Milgram (pdf)
• Court document | Filing by 15 states to intervene (pdf)  

Merck to pay for spill; Erdenheim Farm benefits

• Whitemarsh Foundation | More photos, maps and background on Erdenheim Farm
• U.S. Attorney | Announcement and details of settlement (5-page pdf)
• U.S. District Court | Full consent decree (83-page pdf)
• U.S. District Court | The complaint against Merck (11-page pdf)
• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection | Detailed press release
   

 Updates: Agreement on global warming 

• U.N. | Climate Change Conference (Dec. 3-15) in Bali
• U.N. | IPCC panel's global warming reports, graphics, related links
• Article | Cash for trees: How a novel idea might work 

• Audio slideshow | Ancient forest, uncertain future
• Jungle journal | Twelve days in the Amazon
• Overheated Planet: Seeking Solutions | Other articles in series
• Related article | Damaged Amazon might guarantee a global warming catastrophe
• Interactive maps | Frontier forests of the world
   

• NASA | Earth’s “Tipping Points”: How close are we?
• National Snow and Ice Data Center | 2007 Arctic sea ice
   

Graveyard shift may add cancer risk

• List of carcinogens | Known and probables, and how they are determined
• WHO | International Agency for Research on Cancer

   
• Article | "Let there be (less) light," with interactive world graphic   

   
  Birds in decline

  • National Audubon Society | 2007 "watchlist," with photos and details
  • Previous report | Common birds in decline
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

• U.N. report and video | "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world"

Final IPCC report on climate change

• IPCC | U.N. panel's global warming reports, graphics, related links
• Book reviews and excerpts | Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming (NYT)

• Interactive graphic | The World at Night
• Outdoor light fixtures | Examples of good vs. bad (pdf)
• Great World Wide Star Count
• Catching the Light | Jerry Lodriguss' astrophotography site shows views of the sky from dark and light places, color-coded maps of darkness/brightness around the region and links to dark places
• Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council | Includes details of informational meeting for municipal officials Oct. 30 in West Goshen Twp. 

Weather Or Not

• Blog | Tony Wood reports daily on the weather
• Jet stream explained | Why (and how) air circulates around the globe
• Jet stream forecasts | At top, go to colmn headed "300mb"  . . . "006" is 6 a.m. today . . . "018" is 6 p.m. . . . "Loop" is 2-week animation         

 
Vanishing tone woods

• Help preserve wood used in fine instruments

Poll: Americans and the environment

• Stanford University | Read the report (11-page pdf)
• Ipsos News Center | Related polls

• State tourism, photo gallery, research
• Tony Wood's weather blog  

• Slide show | In the tank, on the beach
• Video | Out in space
• Glossary | Around the world
• Academy for Aquatic Sciences | In Camden

•  Animation, photos, blog

• New Jersey | Statewide overviews and map of nest sites (pdf page 7)
• Pennsylvania | Statewide overview, map of nests, and 6/28/07 statement
• White House | 6/28/07 statement by President Bush 

• Washington Post video | On Jakobshavn Glacier
• NASA article and animation | Fastest glacier doubles speed
• Penn State | Don Voigt's and releated pages

• Photos and audio | Top 20 common birds in decline
• Five in Pennsylvania
• Read the National Audubon Society's full report
• How to create a backyard habitat 

Fry-o-Diesel

• Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel LLC 
• Trap grease (yuck!)
• National Biodiesel Board
• BioDieselNow.com: blogs, forums, links 
  

Butterflies' journey

• Audio slide show | From Costa Rica to Philadelphia 
• Q&A | Ask the Academy of Natural Sciences' "Butterfly Mike"
• Exhibit | Butterflies! at the Academy 
• Resource | The Butterfly Farm, a source of the Academy's butterflies
• Education | How to create a butterfly garden (Cape May Bird Observatory)
• Events | Butterfly garden tours and counts near Cape May (scroll schedule)
• Inquirer Gardening | Stories, blogs, videos, Q&A's, events

Weather or Not

• Special report | Videos and in-depth coverage of hurricane vulnerabilities
   

Undamming the rivers

• Regional projects, video, Fishcam

 Pinelands fire

• News updates
• Article and slide show | "In the Pine Barrens, fighting fire with fire" (3/24/07)
• N.J. Pinelands Commission | lessons about about fire in the Pine Barrens
• N.J. Division of Parks & Forests | Fire History of New Jersey
• N.J. Division of Parks & Forests | Fire Danger and Rating Indices
• U.S. Forest Service | Fire science
• U.S. Forest Service | Fire Issues Unique to the Northeast (pdf)
• YouTube video | Ready. Aim. Fire: A-10 Warthogs at Warren Grove
• Wikipedia | Background and history of the Pinelands National Reserve
• Pineypower.com | Pine Barrens news

 
Kinetic Sculpture Derby

• California: the first kinetic sculpture race and upcoming world championship
• Baltimore: eight years of kinetic racing
• Philadelphia: Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby
• Videos | building and riding kinetic sculptures

Cities' summit on global warming

 
Earth Day
Earth Day has been celebrated on April 22 since 1970. Most 2007 events are scheduled the weekend of April 21-22.

Amur tiger cubs at the Philadelphia Zoo 

Smog and asthma

• EPA | Ground-level ozone and proposed new standards  (public comments through Oct. 9)
• Penn State | Ozone Forecasting in Philadelphia (0.5MB pdf) 
• American Lung Association | Asthma: in-depth

Moon jellyfish

Where to see fall foliage

Light pollution

Impact of warming on human development

In the Amazon: Paying cash to save the rain forest

Hydrogen research center at State College

Sustainable seafood: pocket guides and more

• Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch
• Environmental Defense Fund: Seafood Selector
• Blue Ocean Institute: FishPhone and sustainable seafood site
• National Marine Fisheries Service: FishWatch

Carbon footprints of biggest metro areas

• Slide show | Mother and cubs at 12 weeks (8/15/07)
• Home page | More photos of cubs . . . video (of mom) . . . tiger blog 

 
Weather or Not: Drought watch

• Blog | Tony Wood on the weather
• Animation | Drought conditions spreading
• Pennsylvania | Drought information
• New Jersey | Drought information

An overnourished estuary

• Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program
• Save Barnegat Bay
• Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Project
• NOAA report on nation’s estuaries
• Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences  

Laser printer pollution

• Table | Study's technical summary of emissions and rankings
• Article | American Chemical Society article about the study published in its subscriber-only journal

Invasives on the march

• Audio slide show | Ash beetle threatens baseball tradition, and related links

Electric grid corridors

• Proponents, opponents, and draft transmission lines

Global warming: the nitty-gritty

• Union of Concerned Scientists | "Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast"

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Latest U.N. reports, related links

Urban heat islands