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News & Links

The resources on this page are intended to provide early-career natural and social scientists with a few starting places for climate-change information resources. There are numerous websites in each category that are not identified here, so Google away.

Climate News Services

The Daily Climate - daily news
Climatewire - daily news
DotEarth - Andrew Revkin's blog (New York Times)
EarthPortal - news from the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
Environmental News Network - daily news
EurekAlert - news from the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
European Research Media Center- Energy & Environment
GreenWire - energy and environmental policy news
Nature - investigative reporting on climate change
One degree - climate change news, science and debate from the Weather Channel
Real Climate - climate science commentary by working climate scientists
Tiempo Newswatch - weekly news on climate and development
Science & Development Network - news, views and information about science, technology
    and the developing world
Science Daily - news about earth, climate, energy, technology, psychology, etc.
UNEP News Centre - United Nations Environment Programme - environment for development
World News Network - global warming news

Organizations with a Focus on Climate Change

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP)
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
National Academies Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC)
National Aeronautics adn Space Administration (NASA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Workshops and Conferences Relevant to Climate Change

  ACCESS - Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists
  ASCENT - Atmospheric Science Collaboration and Enriching NeTworks
  DIALOG - Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography
  DISCO - Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography
  DISCCRS - Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research
  IASSA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Young Scientists Summer Program
  ICES/PICES - Marine Science Conference for Early Career Scientists
  ISCRAM - International Community on information systems for crisis response and management
  MYRES - Meeting of Young Researchers in the Solid Earth Sciences
  NCCR - National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR)
Climate Summer School
  NGPR - Next Generation of Polar Researchers
  PODS - Dissertations Symposium on Physical Oceanography
  SACNAS - Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science
  WAYSNET - World Academy of Young Scientists

Climate-related Listservs

APPAM - Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Climate-L - IISD news & announcements on climate change policy & issues
CLMLIST - International list for climatologists
EANTH-L - Ecological & Environmental Anthropology
ECOLOG-L - Grants, jobs and news from the Ecological Society of America
ESWN - Earth Science Women's Network
ES_JOBS_NET - Earth Sciences jobs
Geomorphlist - Listserv for the International Association of Geomorphologists
GEP-Ed - Global Environmental Politics
H-NET - Environmental History
ISOGEOCHEM - Stable Isotope Geochemistry science and news
Met-Jobs - Meterological and related jobs (UK)
Paleoclimate-List - Paleoclimatology - research & science
RESECON - Land & Resource Economics Netowrk
RISKCOM - Risk Communication

Additional Resources

Climate Ethics - Climate change rasies pofound unprecedented questions of justice and equity for the human race. Climateethics.org is a new web blog that follows the ethical dimensions of climate change issues that arise in day-to-day climate change policy making.

CLIMPAG - Climate Impact on Agriculture from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Discovery of Global Warming - A hypertext history of global warming science

Earth Negotiations Bulletin Archive - archives of multilateral negotiations on environment & development

ELDIS Climate Change Resource Guide - Gateway to Development Information

Global Climate Change Briefing Book - from the Congressional Research Service

On the Cutting Edge - Professional Development & Resources for Geoscience Faculty

 

 
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  Last updated: May 7, 2009