Trump Reverses Climate Policies on First Day in Office (American Institute of Physics, 23 January 2025)
Unleashing American Energy (Executive Order, 20 January 2025)
Here’s How Climate Change Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires (Scientific American, 17 January 2025)
Record shattering: Earth had its hottest July in 174 years (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 14 August 2023)
History's Greatest Obstacle to Climate Progress Has Finally Fallen (The Atlantic, 7 August 2022)
Senate Democrats pass sweeping healthcare, tax, and climate bill (Los Angeles Times, 7 August 2022)
This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary video collection including documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs, newsreels, and more.
Source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.
Documentaries and feature films. Only films requested by instructors are available.
Online access to pre-selected feature films used in classes.
This link opens in a new windowA digital streaming collection of full-length films of Shakespeare plays, modern dramas, classical music, dance, musicals, opera and adaptations of classic novels.
The databases below will help you to find facts, evidence, and data about climate change. Be sure to use quotations around concepts that are more than one word, like "climate change."
You can also search across most of our databases at one time using OneSearch.
Multi-subject database which contains indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals, with full text for more than 9,000 of those titles.
This link opens in a new windowGreat source for background information when beginning your research
This link opens in a new windowIssues & Controversies contains in-depth articles which clearly provide both sides of an issue.
The pros and cons on thousands of controversial topics.
Large collection of online books appropriate for college level research
Large collection of online books appropriate for college level research
The BEST way to find reputable news on climate change is to use one of the Library's newspaper databases, like:
Access to newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and many more.
Access to the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles.
While the websites of some news outlets are reliable, others -- like Fox -- are not. Some sites traffic in bad information or "fake news" and should be avoided.
If you are looking for reliable, CONSERVATIVE news sources, you may want to look at the following:
If you are looking for reliable, LIBERAL news sources, you may want to look at some of the following:
The website links below will take you to the "official" websites of each party.
In order to understand a party's views on climate change, you need to understand who the party is and the beliefs they hold. You can find this information by reading the party's platform. Click on "Platform" once you open the website. (If you do not see a link called platform, look for links like "About Us," "Our Goals," or something similar.)
You can also research the views of a political party by examining one or more of the members of Congress who fit within this group.
The link below will take you into GovTrack where upcoming bills are listed.
To find a bill on your topic, click on "Find a Bill" and search for bills by keywords or browse using the "Subject" links on the right.
