Organizations with useful websites:

In no particular order, sorry. 

Chicago Collections

Wild in the City: Chicagoland's Urban Ecology:  https://exhibits.chicagocollections.org/urban-ecology

US Global Change Research Project

GlobalChange.gov is made possible by our participating agencies. Thirteen Agencies, One Vision: Empower the Nation with Global Change Science. www.globalchange.gov

American Audubon Society

Where have all the birds gone? North American has lost 3 billion birds since 1970.   www.audubon.org/news/north-america-has-lost-more-1-4-birds-last-50-years-new-study-says?

Chicago Botanic Garden

https://www.chicagobotanic.org/pr/release/chicago botanic garden celebrates world environment day.

The Jason Project and Climate Change

https://www.jason.org/portfolio_item/climate-seas-of-change

NASA

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/resources/

NOAA---National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

https://www.climate.gov/climate-and-energy-topics/causes-climate-change

https://www.noaa.gov/climate

World Wildlife Foundation

https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/climate

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

https://www.ipcc.ch/

EPA

A student’s guide to global warming (updated last on 5/9/17)

https://archive.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

https://www.epa.gov/climate-research/ecosystems-and-climate-change-research

https://www.epa.gov/climate-research

Previous EPA research has been known to improve knowledge of the health and environment effects of climate change and provide sustainable solutions for communities to effectively manage and reduce the impacts of a changing climate.

Chicago Council on Science and Technology

The Chicago Council on Science and Technology’s (C2ST) mission is to enhance the public’s understanding and appreciation of science and technology and their impact on society.

https://www.c2st.org/about/

National Geographic for Kids

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/climate-change/

State Climatologist office for IL

https://stateclimatologist.web.illinois.edu

https://www2.illinois.gov/epa/topics/climate/Pages/default.aspx 

Living Lands and Waters

https://www.livinglandsandwaters.org

Field Museum

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research/area/keller-science-action-center/how-

Adaption and mitigation

https://store.fieldmuseum.org/product/Overheated

Museum of Science and Industry

https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/extreme-ice/

https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/extreme-ice/resources/help-a-ton-save-a-ton/

Natural History Museum of New York

climate change exhibit

https://www.amnh.org/about/press-center/updated-climate-change-content-in-hall-of-planet-earth

Our warming world

Consequences of climate change

https://www.amnh.org/explore/science-topics/climate-change/climate-change-resources

The Green New Deal

https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal

What is it and will it work?

https://www.dw.com/en/net-zero-by-2050-what-does-it-mean/a-48958487

Paris climate agreement synopsis

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

Union of Concerned Scientists

Oxford Martin School 

Environment | Oxford Martin School

Climate Reality Project 

Your Guide Climate Action 2020

New Climate Institute

Publications - NewClimate Institute

Utility Dive 

Utility and Energy Transmission & Distribution News | Utility Dive

International Renewable Energy Agency

IRENA – International Renewable Energy Agency

Beyond Carbon

Look Up Your State | Beyond Carbon

BP

Statistical Review of World Energy | Energy economics | Home

Climate Central

Research | Climate Central

Climate Impact Lab

The Climate Impact Lab team combines experts from the University of California, Berkeley, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), Rhodium Group, and Rutgers University. 

Interactive Impact maps 

Climate Impact Lab

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LLNL Flow Charts

CDP Disclosure Insight Action

Rating of corporations and cities on a climate report card. A-List 

2017 - Cities Community Wide Emissions | CDP Open Data Portal

International Energy Agency

World Energy Outlook 2019 – Analysis - IEA

Energy and Policy Institute

Watchdog exposing the attacks on renewable energy and countering misinformation by fossil fuel interests

Rocky Mountain Institute

Rocky Mountain Institute

Brookings Institute

Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate

PlanetPolicy

Climate Accountability Institute

Climate Accountability Institute

Project Drawdown

Drawdown

Bottle Store  (thank you to Erin Collier)

From Plastic Pollution to Global Warming: Top Environmental Issues We're Facing Today

Climate-related Articles:

Organized by topic area

Climate science & risks

The science and politics behind climate change

We really may have just 11 years to save the climate

CMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained | Carbon Brief

Climate Models Got It Right on Global Warming - Scientific American

Climate Model: Temperature Change (RCP 4.5) - 2006 - 2100 Dataset | Science On a Sphere

Greta Thunberg is right: It’s time to haul ass on climate change - Vox

Opinion | What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change? - The New York Times

Will climate change kill everyone — or just lots and lots of people? - Vox

World Meteorological Organization |

The Race of our Lives Revisited

Climate change: From the beginning, models have been remarkably accurate - Vox

This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 - Vox

All the risks of climate change, in a single graph - Vox

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