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Environment Canada provides vast amounts of information on greenhouse gases and ozone depletion. Find out Canada's recent actions to reduce these problems. List these actions, and describe what more could be done.

Environment Canada

Environment Canada — Greenhouse Gases

Environment Canada — Greenhouse Gas Emissions Outlook to 2020

Environment Canada — National Action Program on Climate Change

Environment Canada — Stratospheric Ozone Web Site

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — Protecting the Ozone Layer

The Secretariat of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, United Nations

Rangers use a drought code, duff moisture code, and fine fuel moisture code. Research and report on the meaning of these terms.

The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, contains a glossary of all the usual forest fire related terms.

Maritime Forest Ranger School, Fredericton, New Brunswick, presents a good view of this career.

The Acadia Forest Experiment Station, Fredericton, New Brunswick, is the primary outdoor research facility for the Canadian Forest Service — Atlantic.

Explain, using a series of diagrams, how global warming might cause another ice age.

Environment Canada — What is Global Warming — gives a good overview of the situation.

Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment Canada, is a technical site that presents a lot of data.

EPA Global Warming Site, Environmental Protection Agency, USA, presents a good cross section of information on this topic.

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Friends of the Earth, Canada

Climate Change, Natural Resources Canada

National Center for Policy Analysis — Global Warming Hotline

The Ozone Secretariat, United Nations Environment Programme

Environment Canada — Stratospheric Ozone Web Site, Environment Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — Protecting the Ozone Layer

The Secretariat of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, United National

Environment Canada's Community Programs

Ozone Action

The Ozone Hole Tour, University of Cambridge, England

World Climate Research Program

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations

Find the carbon dioxide calculator, and use it to calculate your household's contribution to the atmosphere now, and after you follow its suggestions on how to reduce carbon dioxide production.

Calculate Your Personal CO2 Emissions