- Breathing Earth
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Artist David Bleja displays the globe's CO2 emission rates alongside each country's birth and death rates -- all in real-time.
www.breathingearth.net
- Indoor Air Quality
Provides information and access to publications concerning indoor air quality issues, including radon, secondhand smoke, and carbon monoxide. From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
www.epa.gov/iaq
- EPA AIRNow
Provides real time air pollution data, forecasts, general information on air quality and smog, ozone maps, and detailed daily reports from selected states.
www.airnow.gov
- UK National Air Quality Information Archive
Information archive with daily air pollution forecasts for the UK, as well as general information about air pollution and its causes.
www.airquality.co.uk
- Bay Area Spare the Air
Smog reduction and daily air quality forecasting. Focus starts on the San Francisco Bay Area.
www.sparetheair.org
- MedlinePlus: Air Pollution
News, overview documents, and prevention information on the subject of air polution.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/airpollution.html
- Carbon Monoxide Headquarters
Information on carbon monoxide toxicology and other poisonous gases by David G. Penney, Ph.D.
www.coheadquarters.com/CO1.htm
- Smog City
Interactive air pollution simulator that shows how your choices, environmental factors, and land use contribute to air pollution.
www.smogcity.com
- Clean Air Act
Full text with 1990 amendments by the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency and a plain English or simple guide to the Act.
www.epa.gov/oar/oaq_caa.html
- 50 Things You Can Do for Cleaner Air
From the California Air Resources Board.
www.arb.ca.gov/html/brochure/50things.htm
- CSA Climate Change, GHG Registries
Offers web-based interactive GHG (greenhouse gas) measurement tools, tracking systems, and registration procedures that support and encourage reducing GHG emissions.
www.ghgregistries.ca
- Real Costs
Firefox browser plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce sites. See the costs of carbon dioxide emissions when you get driving directions, shipping, air travel, and more.
www.therealcosts.com
- EEA: Up-to-Date Information on Ozone Conditions Across Europe
Interactive map sponsored by the European Environment Agency shows current air quality conditions across Europe. Data includes ozone statistics, connections between ozone pollution and health, and air quality legislation.
www.eea.europa.eu/maps/ozone
- Eurotrac-2
Environmental project studying pollutants in the troposhere.
www.gsf.de/eurotrac
- CDC: Air Pollution & Respiratory Health
Information on the impact of air pollution on respitory health from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution
- Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations (MILARGO)
Learn how scientists are using airplanes, radars, weather balloons, computers, and dozens of scientific instruments to study the atmosphere in and around Mexico City. The MILARGO project is designed to teach us more about the air pollution that is given off by very large cities called megacities.
www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/milagro/milagro_intro.html
- Smog - Who Does it Hurt?
Document from the EPA highlighting what you need to know about ozone and your health.
www.epa.gov/airnow/health
- Welsh Air Quality Forum
Contains publications, data archives, news, background information, and more.
www.welshairquality.org.uk
- Clean Air & Energy: Air Pollution
Offering information on the causes and effects of air pollution from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
www.nrdc.org/air/pollution
- Mothers Guide to Keeping a Healthy Home, A
Provides articles, newsletters, and resources on indoor air pollution issues.
www.for-a-healthy-home.com
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