Curated, discipline-focused, and primary-source collections of streaming video for learning and research. The library's subscription, Public Library Video Online: Premium, includes over 40,000 videos on a wide range of interests, ideas, and issues.
Look under Disciplines and then Social Sciences to find videos on Environmental Studies.
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Allows a user to search Gale's General OneFile, Student Edition, General Reference Center Gold, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center at the same time.
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General Reference Center GOLD provides access to magazines, newspapers, trade publications, and reference books through one interface. This general interest database offers the content covering current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
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Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering subject areas of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Ready.gov - FEMA has assembled a great deal of information to help individuals and families prepare for disasters. The site has sections called "Be Informed", "Make a Plan", and "Make a Kit" Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA Homeowner's Hurricane Safety Guide Hurricane Preparedness, from the American Red Cross, contains information understanding and responding to the various levels of storms and hurricanes, personal evacuation plans, assembling a disaster supplies kit, what to do when warnings are issued, and what to do after a hurricane. SafeStars.org - Hurricane Safety and Information for Adults and Children Tropical Cyclones: A Preparedness Guide
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Washington County: (251)847-2668
History, Education, and Information About Storms, Hurricanes, Weather and Environment
Great Websites for Kids: Weather - Websites geared to children from birth to age 14 compiled by the Association for Library Service to Children a division of the American Library Association. Historical Significant Events imageryFrom the National Climate Data Center - National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) Historical Significant Events Imagery database (HSEI)! In here you will find hundreds of selected satellite images capturing some of the more important weather and environmental events over the last 30 years. Hurricane Hunters - come along for the ride right into the eye! Historical Hurricane Info National Climatic Data Center - maintains the world's largest climate data archive. Records in the archive range from paleoclimatic data to centuries-old journals to data less than an hour old Scholastic Weather Watch: Hurricanes - For K-8 students and teachers--provides links to Hurricane trivia, hurricane tracking, and an Internet field trip