Chapter 52 Web Sites
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- Critical Ecoregions Program
- Sierra Club sponsored action plans for major land and water systems in the United States and Canada, with an ecological profile of each region.
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- Acid Rain/Acid Deposition
- The resulting acidic water droplets can be carried long distances by prevailing winds, returning to Earth as acid rain, snow, or fog. The acids can be transformed chemically into sulphur dioxide gas or into sulphur and nitrogen salts.
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- Stratospheric Ozone-Depletion Page
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- United States Environmental Protection Agency Prevention, Pesticides & Toxic Substances
- Questions & Answers: Pesticides and Food Safety
- Recently, EPA has received a number of questions about the programs to protect the public, and particularly children, from pesticides in food. This document is intended to answer some of the most common questions that EPA has received. If you have additional questions, please contact the Communications Branch of EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs at (703) 305-5077.
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- Information The Key to Ecosystem Management
- by Jonathan Z. Cannon, Assistant Administrator for Administration and Resources Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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- The Ecosystem
- LBA, the Large Scale Biosphere - Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
- LBA, the Large Scale Biosphere - Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. You will find detailed information on BA on the LBA homepage. General introduction to LBA.
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