Endangered Planet

Links to Related Sites

Rachel Carson Homestead: Birthplace of a Healthier Planet
Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring" launched the modern environmental movement. This site, designed primarily for teachers and students, is dedicated to interpreting Rachel Carson's legacy to the public. It includes links to research collections of Carson materials.

United States Environmental Protection Agency
The official website of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Greenpeace
The website of Greenpeace, the environmental activist organization, includes a 3D multimedia history of the organization, archives, campaign updates, legal documents and links to related sites.

Love Canal Collection
Background, chronology, maps and visuals, legal documents, testimony, journalistic reports and links about this environmental federal emergency. From the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Earth Day Information Center
Papers, press releases, fact sheets, archives and links from the Earth Day Information Center, presented by the National Center for Public Policy Research.

The Minamata Disaster
An extensive history, including references to related cases and a bibliography, about The Minamata Disaster, presented by the Trade and Environment Database.




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