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Background Readings

• Climate Change
• Ocean Health
• Rapid Urbanization

Further Sources for Research

CLIMATE CHANGE

Websites about Climate Change

• Environmental Protection Agency (U.S): Climate Change
• The Nature Conservancy: Climate Change Threats and Impacts
• Union of Concerned Scientists: Climate Hot Map
• United Nations Environment Programme: Climate Change
• U.S. Global Change Research Program: The impacts of Climate Change on Human Health
• U.S. Global Change Research Program: Ecosystems, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
• World Wildlife Fund: What are climate change and global warming?

Articles about Climate Change

• “Effects of Global Warming” Live Science, December 2014
• “Climate change threatens nation’s agriculture” Japan Times, August 2016
• “New research shows penguins will suffer in a warming world” The Guardian, August 2016
• “First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change” National Geographic, June 2016
• “See What Climate Change Means for the World’s Poor” National Geographic, December 2015
• “Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies” The Guardian, April 2013

OCEAN HEALTH

Websites about Ocean Health

• Conservation International: The Ocean
• Environmental Protection Agency (U.S): Climate Change Indicators: Oceans
• National Geographic: Marine Habitat Destruction
• The Nature Conservancy: Protecting Oceans and Coasts and Protecting Oceans and Coasts
• Smithsonian Institution: Coral and Coral Reefs
• World Wildlife Fund: Threats to oceans and coasts

Articles about Ocean Health

• “We’re trashing the oceans — and they’re returning the favor by making us sick” The Washington Post, August 2016
• “Australia’s Underwater Forest Wiped Out by Marine Heatwave” Nature World News, July 2016
• “’Unprecedented’: Third straight year of global coral bleaching to target U.S. reefs, scientists say” The Washington Post, June 2016
• “Overfishing is as big a threat to humanity as it is to our oceans” The Guardian, February 2016
• “Pollution and Climate Change Accelerate Ocean Degradation” Scientific American, June 2011

RAPID URBANIZATION

Websites about Rapid Urbanization

• Cities Alliance: About Slum Upgrading
• Conserve Energy Future: What is Urban Sprawl?
• Population Action International: Why Population Matters to Migration and Urbanization
• United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Urbanizationn
• United Nations Population Fund: Urbanization
• World Economic Forum, The Risks of Rapid and Unplanned Urbanization in Developing Countries

Articles about Rapid Urbanization

• “Urbanization in Asia: Double edged sword?” The Jakarta Post, July 2016
• “The curse of urban sprawl: how cities grow, and why this has to change” The Guardian, July 2016
• “Urbanization and Migration in Developing Asia” The Diplomat, September 2015
• “In world’s poorest slums, landfills and polluted rivers become a child’s playground” PBS, February 2015
• “Rapid Urbanization Threatens Sustainable Development” Our World (United Nations University), August 2013