Climate Change and Wetlands
- A paper by the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Convention on Wetlands. Provides an overview of the importance and distribution of wetlands, and a detailed examination of the consequences of recent and projected changes.
- http://ramsar.org/key_unfccc_bkgd.htm

Climate Change and Global Glacier Decline
- WWF paper that describes and explains glacier loss, and examines the risks posed to specific regions, habitats, and species. [PDF]
- http://assets.panda.org/downloads/glacierspaper.pdf

Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Project
- Information from an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) core project for research on responses to rising carbon dioxide levels and other perturbations.
- http://www.gcte.org

Environment Canada Ecosystem Information: The Pacific and Yukon Region
- Includes state of the environment reporting, a dynamic set of environmental indicators, programs and reports on ecosystem science, monitoring, and research.
- http://www.ecoinfo.org/index_e.cfm

The Fates of Low-Latitude Glaciers
- Presentation by Lonnie G. Thompson of Ohio State University. Includes discussion of certainties and probabilities, photographic evidence, graphs, graphical representation of 20th century changes in ice cover, and distribution maps.
- http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0615Thompson.pdf

Bering Sea Climate and Ecosystem
- Essays on the relevance of weather, climate and fisheries to the ecosystem. Includes sea ice datasets, recent trends, maps, and photographs.
- http://www.beringclimate.noaa.gov

Alpine Lakes: Extreme Ecosystems under the Pressures of Global Change
- Describes the sensitivity to environmental change of high mountain lakes, and assesses their use as early warning systems. Includes diagrams, graphs, references, and pictures. From Roland Psenner, Professor of Limnology at the University of Innsbruck.
- http://www.eawag.ch/publications/eawagnews/www_en55/en55e_printer/en55e_psenner_p.pdf