Our planet faces unprecedented challenges related to climate change, loss of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. The scientific community has made resources available to help students understand that human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, are contributing to these challenges. Understanding the complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and living organisms is crucial to developing effective solutions to these problems. As a student you may have the opportunity to explore these issues and address the urgent environmental challenges we face and create a more sustainable future for generations to come.
When preparing an assignment, you can consult the library's collections of books, databases and journals.
You can also consult some verified sources that provide well-researched information and are from reputable organisations and sources.
EPA: Envirofacts
The Environmental Protection Agency
GreenFILE is a library-subscribed research database that covers human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
IEEE Climate Change Collection
Conference papers, articles and magazines from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Inside Climate News
Inside Climate News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization
Ireland's Environmental Network
A network of individual environmental Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) that work individually and, as appropriate, jointly to protect and enhance the environment.
Ireland's Sustainable Development Goals data hub
A platform that reports on progress towards the UN SDGs, measuring Ireland's progress against each goal using a set of United Nations (UN) global and European Union (EU) agreed targets and indicators
