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The Return of Bio2
This site, presented by Columbia University, was created to provide information about earth systems, environmental research and (the) Biosphere. Biosphere2 was created to help us better understand Biosphere 1 - the Earth. The research complex covers 3.15 acres and is 91 feet tall at its highest point. There are 1500 sensors inside constantly monitoring the air, soil and water. It boasts a 25-foot-deep ocean with a million gallons of salt water and contains five biomes - rainforest, desert, savannah, marsh, ocean. Start your personal discovery tour here!"
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EPA Global Warming
If you are looking for information on "climate change," "the greenhouse effect," or "global warming," this site is a must-see, and this not only because of the huge amount of textual information. Tips and material on necessary individual and social changes to prevent the ecological collapse are offered as well. "Quick facts" and a glossary include overviews about essential facts, but there are detailed statistics, scientific reports and a slide show as well. EPA Global Warming is one of the best sites on ecological topics on the web, also for visitors who are non natural-scientists.
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St. Louis Science Center
This museum in St. Louis tries to redefine the concept of a science center online by experimenting with new, more interactive ways. The first online gallery "Ecology and Environment Past" is an example for these efforts. You can explore there 300 pages with photographs, animations and videos, drawings, and texts. The topic: The environment and the ecology of our region has undergone dramatic changes through time. Over the past 4.5 billion years, this area from quiet lifeless desert to sizzling volcanic wasteland, from clear shallow sea to lush swampland, from warm-weather forest to a land gripped by ice and snow.
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The tropical rainforest
One hectare of rainforest is destroyed every second, on a single day an area greater than New York City. At this pace, the entire ecological system of the rainforest will we be destroyed by 2030, approximately 30 million species of plants, animals and insects. "RAN" (Rainforest Action Network) informs here about the function of the rainforest: with a quiz, official reports, photographs, statistics and book reviews. Further chapters: Will ecological tourism save the rainforest? * about "sustainable" production * actions and demonstrations and their success in the case of Mitsubishi, Burger King, New York Times * the Yanomami genocide * what can each of us do?
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Volcano World
"Volcano World" presents here reservation parks and monuments (e.g. Hawaii, Mt. Saint Helena) with many photographs. If you would like to improve your knowledge about volcanos look at the section "questions and answers," the presented bulletins or "Volcano news." Or visit the museum shop with souvenirs, posters, photograph sand CD-ROMs.
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Jurassic Reef Park
This exhibition about corals reefs will certainly awake holiday memories and desires. It's of great interest for divers and snorklers. In several well-illustrated chapters the origin of coral reefs is decribed, the complex "super organism" and the ecological system of a reef, different geological forms as well as the functioning of a reef as a monitor for ecological risks and world climate threats.
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Discovery Online: Sharks splash
"Once you get to know sharks, you begin to love them and, more importantly, stop fearing them." So, start preparing for your next beach vacation at this web site. Read an interview with a shark, dive into the shark tank, where a great number of the more than 350 different kinds of sharks who patrol our waters are presented. Or have a 3D shark encounter: experience a 360-degree view of the inside of a shark tank through a PhotoBubble, which allows you to pan, tilt, zoom in and swim through a space. (An Ipix plug-in is required).
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The Alfred Wegener Institut
The Alfred Wegener Institut for Polar Investigation in Bremerhaven presents here its work with many texts, photographs and maps (e.g. of ozone puncture measurements in the Antarctic). Two longer chapters are dedicated to the activity of the research ship "Pole Star" and to the investigative work of the AWI-airplanes, both engaged in ecological research.
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Smithsonian Natural History Web
Millions of artifacts! Categorized under anthropology, botany, mineral sciences and other disciplines, this site offers a lot of multimedia and descriptive texts. This site should please everyone from the interdisciplinary scholar interested in Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems to the little kid who loves dinosaurs: Have a virtual tour of fossile mammals and plants, the human evolution, life in the ancient seas - 570 million years ago, native cultures of the Americas, reptiles and amphibians, and and and....
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Ocean Planet
Ocean planet is a museum of the sea, with a really huge number of images, photographs and texts on many subjects: the sea, nature, fish and fishing, deep-sea diving, coral reefs, "Orca the whale" and sharks, adventurers and discoverers. Ecological risks for our oceans are explained without moralizing undertone. One of the best websites about nature and science.
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