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Endocrine Disrupter

http://www.greenfacts.org/endocrine-disruptors/endocrine-disrupter.htm

This site defines endocrine disrupter as chemicals that can disrupt the endocrine system. It has links that tell how they can harm wildlife as well as other important information about endocrine disrupters.

Ecotoxicology

http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/biol106h/L37/ecotox.html

This site appears to have been used in a classroom before. It defines the word, gives a brief history, tells the goals, talks about concerns with chemical use, and ties it in with Endocrine Disrupters.

Ecological risk assessment

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ecosystem/ecorisk.htm

This is the EPA website, it tells what Ecological Risks are, and how they could be harmful to our wildlife. It also tells how they measure the risks and their conclusions.

Bioaccumulation

http://toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/bioaccumulation.html

This defines Bioaccumulation as a build up of chemicals in an organism. The site gives an in depth definitions as well as other sites to consult for further explination.

Emerging Disease

http://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/infectious_diseases/emergplan/ascii/emergplan.txt

This is a site constructed by doctors that is specifically about Emerging diseases and their effect on the world. If you open the page it looks a little funny at first but if you scroll down the information is there.

Pollution

http://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/infectious_diseases/emergplan/ascii/emergplan.txt

This is a really neat site. You enter your zip code and it gives you a very detailed report on the pollution where you live. This includes what causes the pollution, where it is the worst, as well as a compairason to other cities around you.

Biological Magnification

http://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/infectious_diseases/emergplan/ascii/emergplan.txt

This site tells the difference in bilogical magnification and bioaccumulation. The site gives examples, as well as a chart of different chemicals that would be harmful, or studied in this matter.

Carcinogen

http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/carcinogen.html

A Carcinogen is something that causes cancer. The site gives additional information of carcinogen also, such as, that it is a matter that cannot be tested on humans because to deliberatly cause cancer to prove something would be unethical.

Environmental Stressor

http://faculty.weber.edu/molpin/healthclasses/1110/bookchapters/musicchapter.htm

This is a chapter out of a text book titled "Stress and the Environment." It gives examples and explains what an environmental stressor may be, however, an environmental stressor for one person may not be a stressor for another.

Red Tides

http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/Envfacts/redtides/

Red tides are typical along Africas coast. This site tells what red tides are, what triggers them, and the consequences, as well as other interesting information.