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Environmental Data and Resources: Popular Resources and How to Evaluate Them

Popular Information Sources on the Environment

National Geographic
The Schaffer Library has physical copies of National Geographic, access to full text through our databases, and facsimiles of recent issues via Flipster.

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Facsimile of issues of popular magazines. (Currently only Architectural Digest, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Consumer Reports, National Geographic, National Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, TIME, Washington Monthly, and Wired are available.)

Movies and Videos

Environmental Movies in Kanopy
A subset of movies on Environmental Topics available to stream for free through our Kanopy subscription.

Environmental Issues Online This link opens in a new window
...brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more. The database is curated around specific environmental issues and events from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Citizen Literacy was created by Robert Detmering, Amber Willenborg, and Terri Holtze for University of Louisville Libraries and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Citizen Literacy was created by Robert Detmering, Amber Willenborg, and Terri Holtze for University of Louisville Libraries and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.