<p>I have to find examples of an environmental impact that humans have had or is having on earth..</p>
<p>I don't really understand what the topic is. Did we create the impact or is it created by nature and having an impact on humans?</p>
<p>Does anyone know good websites where they have a lot of these environmental problems? It would be really useful to me, thanks!</p>
<p>If you believe in man-made global warming (and you should), there is your topic. You also have endangered species such as pandas, whooping cranes..., destruction of natural environments... If you go to the UN's site, you're bound to find some story about the environment.</p>
<p>There are many environmental impacts that humans have caused. It's quite depressing. You can use examples of enhanced global warming, habitat destruction, pollution (of air, water, etc.), which are all caused by humans.</p>
<p>Here is a good one...The dodo bird that went exctinct because of humans. A google search brought this up :
<a href="http://www.davidreilly.com/dodo/impact.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.davidreilly.com/dodo/impact.html</a>
Something like that maybe...Hope it helps!</p>
<p>It's about human-created impacts. YanksDolphins and rc08 have already given a lot of really good suggestions. Global warming, habitat destruction, hunting animals to extinction or close to it, pollution, using up natural resources, etc.</p>
<p>Lets say I wanted to write up a paper on global warming, how do I find the best possible source if I google it? Or can you not?</p>
<p>How about Greenpeace? I'm sure they have a very convincing website.</p>
<p>Global warming is going to be an issue that everybody'll think about. Be creative. Be original.</p>
<p>Impress the teachers and shock your classmates. Choose the Holocene</a> Extinction Event.</p>
<p>Just try and find reliable sources. Try going for websites of well-known organizations. Greenpeace is probably good, and maybe the UN site or something.</p>
<p>Thanks wxmann for the idea! I've found 3 sources for it; they are wikipedia, <a href="http://www.rewilding.org/thesixthgreatextinction.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.rewilding.org/thesixthgreatextinction.htm</a>, and some other article: <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Ongoing-Holocene-Extinction&id=531079%5B/url%5D">http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Ongoing-Holocene-Extinction&id=531079</a>. Do you think those are reliable enough?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if it's okay to quote a site that has a quotation of an important person? Do I have to say that I'm quoting from the site or from the person? I will be stating the site in my works cited.</p>
<p>Can I quote directly from Environmental experts about what is being done about global warming and extinction? I'm not really sure where to obtain these pieces of information because it is vast in range.</p>
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Thanks wxmann for the idea! I've found 3 sources for it; they are wikipedia, <a href="http://www.rewilding.org/thesixthgreatextinction.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.rewilding.org/thesixthgreatextinction.htm</a>, and some other article: <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Ongoin...tion&id=531079%5B/url%5D">http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Ongoin...tion&id=531079</a>. Do you think those are reliable enough?
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Wikipedia is definitely not. Not sure about the other ones. Unfortunately my mind is flushed of all ideas that are closely related to research papers.</p>
<p>I'd suggest starting from Google scholar and look for some research papers on the topic. For the Works Cited I'd go to Noodlebib. It will do the WC for you, you just need to type in the information.</p>
<p>I've found some interviews of Michael Soule, University researchers from Duke, and UN people. Are those reliable to use?</p>
<p>Also, I think that I'm quoting to many people in my paper. Are research papers supposed to be like this? Basically about 70-80 of my paper is quotations since I don't have any knowledge about it.. For example, I do not know the causes, nor what has been done about the impact, nor what more can be done to resolve it. This is okay right? The other 20-30 percent of my paper are just summaries from the websites but I always say, "According to" or "As ___ explains.."</p>
<p>You can see that I'm not used to writing science research papers. lol</p>
<p>Also, do you think this is a reliable site?: <a href="http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/started%5B/url%5D">http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/started</a></p>
<p>Michael Soule states that Global Warming does not affect the extinction of animals as much but then the UN and Washington post:
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24732-2005Jan20.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24732-2005Jan20.html</a></p>
<p>states that Global Warming is a major factor of extinction. I agree that it is but why does Soule contradict this somewhat? I'm trying to transition my report so that I can include both the extinction event and global warming but I can't find a way to do this. Does anyone know how? Thanks!</p>