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Environmental
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An
electronic version of the 12 volume reference work, presenting a
comprehensive, integrated summary of the present state of the field of
geochemistry. |
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Access Science is an online encyclopedia of science and
technology. It also offers weekly updates on scientific events, discoveries and
breakthroughs, plus links to quality web sites. |
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Definitions of key terms in environmental studies. |
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Includes dictionaries of biology, chemistry, earth
science, and other disciplines related to environmental studies. |
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Indexes 167 popular and professional English-language science
periodicals, and includes 40 in full-text. For basic research only. |
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Indexes alternative magazines and newspapers, including
environmental publications by groups such as Greenpeace and EarthFirst. |
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General databases which may include useful magazine,
newspaper, and journal articles. |
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The Race to Save the Planet |
This ten part series shows ways that the physical
environment of the Earth is being changed by man and suggests actions to
preserve it. |
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Decade of Destruction |
This five part series chronicles the destruction of the
Amazon rain forest during the 1980's. |
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Earth on Edge |
Bill Moyers interviews leading scientists to explore the
impact that human activities have on the the planet. |
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Preserving the Rainforest |
Man came out of the African forest, and continues to live
in equilibrium with tropical forest in Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere. Trouble
only begins when men begin to cultivate plants in the forest, cutting down trees
and burning brush; the soil is soon exhausted, and the would-be farmers move
elsewhere. |
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Green Medicines |
This documentary follows scientists in various disciplines
in their work, such as ethnobotanists working with herbal healers to learn
about the traditional use of green medicines and pharmacologists bringing
rain forest plants into the lab to find the chemical structure of active
molecules. |
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The Search for Clean Air |
This program presents an exposition of the problems of air
pollution: its causes; its effects on forests, streams and human health; and
the issues involved in correcting the problems |
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Hole in the Sky: The Ozone Layer |
This documentary examines the alarming depletion of the
earth's ozone layer. |
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Last Chance to See |
An interactive multimedia exploration of the authors' trip
around the world in search of endangered species. Contains the unabridged
text of the book Last Chance to See, a reading of the entire book by
Douglas Adams, and over 800 full-screen color photographs. |
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