Reports, Studies and Conferences
Consumption/Consumerism
Corporations / Media
The Toxic 100: The Top Corporate Air Polluters in the U.S.
Can You Hear Congo Now? Cell Phones, Conflict Minerals, and the Worst Sexual Violence in the World
The World According to Monsanto [complete English-audio version of 2008 French documentary]
The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: An Updated Analysis
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers (2009 The Nation cover story)
Energy / Transportation
Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free, A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy
Wired for Progress: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid
The Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable USA Energy Outlook
Transition To Green: Environmental Transition Recommendations For The Obama Administration
Plugging Into the Sun [National Geographic November 2009 cover story]
Subprime Carbon: Rethinking the World’s Largest Derivatives Market
The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs. Climate Change
The Era of Xtreme Energy: Life After the Age of Oil
Growth in the Canadian Oil Sands: Finding a New Balance
Using Solar Roofs To Power Hybrids
Evaluating the Feasibility of a Large-Scale Wind, Water, and Sun Energy Infrastructure
Food / Hunger
Quantifying the Costs of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change
Agriculture and the Food System: Adaptation to Climate Change
Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat
The State of Food Insecurity in the World: 2009
Is agriculture eroding civilization’s foundation?
Half of all [UK] fruit & vegetables contaminated with pesticides
Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Actions
Mitigating Climate Change Through Food and Land Use
Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat
Cooking up a storm: Food, greenhouse gas emissions and our changing climate
Our health, our environment: The Ecological Footprint of what we eat
Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops
Global Warming
Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution
Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change [report]
Will a warmer world make us sicker?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change global warming reports
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change [conclusions]
Nitrogen trifluoride in the global atmosphere
Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat
Quantifying the Costs of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change
Agriculture and the Food System: Adaptation to Climate Change
National Parks in Peril: The Threats of Climate Disruption
A Climate Of Conflict: The Links Between Climate Change, Peace And War
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
How will Earth’s surface temperature change in future decades?
Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
Cooking up a storm: Food, greenhouse gas emissions and our changing climate
Suffering the Science - Climate Change, People and Poverty
Even the Himalayas Have Stopped Smiling: Climate Change, Poverty and Adaptation in Nepal
The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans & How to Close the Gap
The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast
Managing the health effects of climate change
Geoengineering the climate: Science, governance and uncertainty
Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming
The future is here: climate change in the Pacific
Permafrost Melting a Growing Climate Threat: Study
Turning Up the Heat : Global Warming and the Degradation of Canada’s Boreal Forest
Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa
Impacts of Climate Change on California’s Public Health, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources
Hotter and Drier: The West’s Changed Climate
Dirty Oil: How the tar sands are fueling the global climate crisis
Climate Change in the American Mind
More Extreme Heat Waves: Global Warming’s Wake Up Call
Climate Shame: Get Back To The Table
James Hansen: If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s so Damned Cold?
Nuclear Power
The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2010: A Brighter Spotlight Needed
Health Effects of Chernobyl 25 years after the reactor catastrophe
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
The Chernobyl Catastrophe - Consequences on Human Health
Nuclear Power and Children’s Health: Highlights of the 2004 Symposium
Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable Without Subsidies
The impacts of climate change on nuclear power station sites
Nuclear power and global warming
Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change
The medical and economic costs of nuclear power by Helen Caldicott, M.D.
Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage
Nuclear Reactor Hazards: ongoing dangers of operating nuclear reactors
Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power
The Top 10 Reasons the U.S. Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Power Plants
Chernobyl accident – map of Europe showing radiation distribution
Tritium Hazard Report: Pollution and Radiation Risk from Canadian Nuclear Facilities
Nuclear Weapons, Space Weapons and Depleted Uranium
Smaller and Safer: A New Plan For Nuclear Postures (2010)
Resetting the Nuclear Disarmament Agenda (Mikhail Gorbachev’s Oct. 5, 2009 UN speech)
Casualties and smoke emissions from regional and global nuclear conflict
Climate effects of a regional nuclear conflict
Nuclear winter article in Encyclopedia of Earth (2008)
Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict
Three Minutes to Midnight: NPRI Symposium on the Impending Threat of Nuclear War (2004 symposium)
Dr. Helen Caldicott on our nuclear future (October 2008 speech on YouTube in 8 parts)
The Nuclear Renaissance: Nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism
U.S. Weapons at War 2008: Beyond the Bush Legacy [U.S. is the world's largest arms supplier]
U.S. Defense Spending vs. Global Defense Spending
Trillions to Burn? A Quick Guide to the Surge in Pentagon Spending (2010)
The Nuclear War on Iraq [film about depleted uranium]
Depleted Uranium: Scientific Basis for Assessing Risk
Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians: overview
The Space Arms Race and the NASA Scam
Oceans
Polar Oceans in Peril…and a planet at risk
Plastics in oceans decompose, release hazardous chemicals
Hungry Oceans: What Happens When the Prey is Gone?
Census of Marine Life: Making Ocean Life Count
Ten-Year Probe Reveals Oceans in Peril [about the Census of Marine Life]
Cruise Ship Discharge Assessment Report
Ocean acidification impairs olfactory discrimination and homing ability of a marine fish
Ozone Layer
NASA – New Simulation Shows Consequences of a World Without Earth’s Natural Sunscreen
Species Extinction
Species and Climate Change (2010 IUCN Red List of Endangered Species)
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2008)
Is Colony Collapse the price of e.m.f. [electromagnetic field] progress?
The State of the Birds: United States of America 2009
Reshuffling of Species With Climate Disruption: A No-Analog Future for California Birds
Birds and Climate Change: Ecological Disruption in Motion
Silent Spring Revisited: Pesticide Use and Endangered Species
Saving Species In The New Age Of Extinction [2009 Time magazine cover story]
Census of Marine Life: Making Ocean Life Count
Ten-Year Probe Reveals Oceans in Peril [about the Census of Marine Life]
Poisoning Our Imperiled Wildlife: San Francisco Bay Area Endangered Species at Risk from Pesticides
Palm oil paradox: a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra
The Economics Of Ecosystems And Biodiversity [invest in nature now, save trillions later]
State of the Planet
State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World
State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future
From Conflict to Peacebuilding – the Role of Natural Resources and the Environment
Toxic Pollution
Growing Up Toxic: Chemical Exposures and Increases in Developmental Disease
Fine-Particulate Air Pollution and Life Expectancy in the United States
The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America’s Schools
Birds, Bees and Mankind – Destroying Nature by “Electrosmog”
Pollution in 5 Extraordinary Women
Chemical Body Burden - Case Studies
Body Burden — The Pollution in Newborns
The Pollution Within (National Geographic report on toxins absorbed by humans)
Endocrine disruptors and reproductive health: The case of bisphenol-A
Use of Polycarbonate Bottles and Urinary Bisphenol A Concentrations
Potential for Plastics to Transport Hydrophobic Contaminants
Silent Spring Revisited: Pesticide Use and Endangered Species
Clearing the Air – Hidden Hazards of Air Fresheners
Fine-Particulate Air Pollution and Life Expectancy in the United States
No More Toxic Tub: Getting Contaminants Out of Children’s Bath & Personal Care Products
Poisoning Our Imperiled Wildlife: San Francisco Bay Area Endangered Species at Risk from Pesticides
In a landfill, how long does trash really last? [photo slide show]
Mobile Phones and Brain Tumors - A Public Health Concern
Long-term use of cellular phones and brain tumours: increased risk associated with use for >10 years
Tumors and Cell Phone Use: What the Science Says
Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Risk From Cell Phone Use
Electronic Smog ‘Is Disrupting Nature On A Massive Scale’
Perfume - An Investigation of Chemicals in 36 Eaux de Toilette and Eaux de Parfum
Toxic Chemicals In Scented Laundry Detergent And Fabric Softener And Health Hazards
Fragranced consumer products and undisclosed ingredients
Poison on Pets I: Health Hazards from Flea and Tick Products
Poison on Pets II: Toxic Chemicals in Flea and Tick Collars
Half of all [UK] fruit & vegetables contaminated with pesticides
Fluorescent Lighting and Light Pollution
The Health Effects of Fluorescent Lighting
Energy-saving fluorescent light bulbs make trigger breast cancer
Does the Modern Urbanized Sleeping Habitat Pose a Breast Cancer Risk [from fluorescent lighting]?
Compact Fluorescent Lights Can Emit Ultraviolet Radiation At Levels Higher Than Guideline Levels
Sunlight, [Fluorescent] Lighting and Your Health
Malignant Melanoma and Exposure to Fluorescent Lighting at Work
Full Spectrum Classroom Light and [A Significant Reduction in] Sickness in Pupils
The Association of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma and Fluorescent Light Exposure
Full Spectrum Light: Energy and Health Builder
Release of Mercury from Broken Fluorescent Bulbs
Fluorescent Lighting Can Trigger ADD/HD, Dyslexia, and Poor Achievement
The Fluorescent Lighting Crisis: Part I: Background, Overview and Action
Fluorescent light allergy – online public forum
Light Pollution (National Geographic cover story, Our Vanishing Night)
Over-illumination (Wikipedia page)
Trees
State of the World’s Forests 2009
How to Save the Amazon Rainforest
Is oil palm the next emerging threat to the Amazon?
Forests for the Future: Indigenous Forest Management in a Changing World
Tropical Deforestation Emission Reduction Mechanism (TDERM): A Discussion Paper
Adaptation Of Forests And People To Climate Change – A Global Assessment Report
Palm oil paradox: a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra
Amazon’s Vicious Cycles: Drought and Fire
The Carbon the World Forgot [boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per acre]
Consuming the Boreal Forest: the chain of destruction from logging companies to consumers
Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming
Turning Up the Heat : Global Warming and the Degradation of Canada’s Boreal Forest
Paper Cuts [1999 report about global paper use]
Water
Our Water Commons, Towards a New Freshwater Narrative
Water Privatization Threatens Workers, Consumers and Local Economies
Fifth World Water Forum (March 16-22, 2009) – reports from each day’s sessions in PDF or HTML
World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World
Bottled Water and Barrels of Oil [fact sheet]
Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards
Dental caries: a disorder of high fluoride and low dietary calcium interactions
A Bibliography of Scientific Literature on Fluoride
Are Proponents of Water Fluoridation Suppressing Scientific Evidence and
Debate?
Changes in Blood Lead Levels Associated with Use of Chloramines in Water Treatment Systems
The Health Effects of Chloramines in Public Water Supplies: A Literature Review
Type of Disinfectant in Drinking Water and Patterns of Mortality in Massachusetts
Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It
Ocean Acidification: The Facts. A special introductory guide for policy advisers and decision makers