ENVIRONMENT

Local | National | Global | Natural Disasters 

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Local

Earth 911: Making Every Day Earth Day
Enter your zip code to find local community activities and schedules for recycling and conservation.

Envirofacts Data Warehouse
Enter your zip code to find environmental data, including information about polluters, in your area.

EPA: Where You Live
This interactive site allows users to obtain local information about environmental issues.  

Garden State EnviroNet

Middlesex County Solid Waste Management
Current programs, schedules, and collection sites.

Woodbridge Public Works
Schedules and specifics for recycling and leaf collection. 

 

National

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Consult toxicological profiles for commonly used substances, monitor Superfund sites, become informed on topics in environmental medicine.

Environment Fact Sheets
US Geological Survey research and findings on numerous locales and topics.

Environmental Health Information
Pamphlets and fact sheets from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Environmental Health Science Education
Materials and activities for students, teachers, and scientists from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

EPA
Homepage of the Environmental Protection Agency includes a wealth of data, easy-to-understand explanations, plus laws and regulations.

OSHA 
Search OSHA regulations online.

Recycle City
Interactive web site encourages kids to learn more about conservation and recycling through games and activities.

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems
"America 's most comprehensive report on the condition of our lands, waters, and living resources," funded by government, foundations, and corporations, and published by the John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. 

Superfund
Keep current on Superfund progress and obtain facts, figures, and history of the program at this site.

Superfund Sites Public Health Assessments and Health Consultations: New Jersey
Assessments of each of the sites on the EPA National Priorities List, by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

 

Global

Conservation International
Read about this organization's work in global biodiversity conservation and learn about the major issues and challenges to the world's ecosystems.

Earth Day Official Site

EnviroLink: The Online Environmental Community
Comprehensive up-to-date environmental resources.

Global Warming: Facts and our Future

What's It Like Where You Live?
Biomes around the world: rainforest, tundra, taiga, desert, temperate and grasslands.

World Biomes
Identifies and explores five main biome types (world regions or communities identified by their flora and  fauna and characterized by  the adaptations made by organisms to those environments).

 

Natural Disasters

How Volcanoes Work

MTU Volcanoes Page

Natural Disaster Reference Database

The Tornado Project Online
Produced by a company which makes tornado information available to meteorologists and emergency management officials, this site offers information about recent and past tornadoes, answers to commonly asked questions, and the truth about tornado myths.

The World-Wide Earthquake Locator

Tsunami!

USGS Volcano Page


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