There is evidence that the results of research are not always fully exploited. It is thus important to improve the dissemination of research results so that they are both more usable for policy makers and help to communicate understanding of environmental issues to the general public.

That is the reason why DG Environment has decided to establish this service in order to reinforce the links between science and policy.

The target audience are policy makers as well as the wider public.

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This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the difference between weather and climate and features groundbreaking analysis revealing that Earth's climate has changed much faster than previously believed. This video is for grades 6-12 and just one of the many recent additions to the OER Commons site. Click on the EYE icon to watch the 5-minute film.

UNESCO has just released a new CD-ROM with a collection of UNESCO documents on science and technology education at the secondary school level. These ocuments include:
* “Guidelines for Policy-making in Secondary School Science and Technology Education”
* “Girls and Science : A training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers”
* “Technology-based training of marginalized girls”
* “Partnerships for relevant science and technology edu more...

This online full course is provided by MIT OpenCourseWare under Creative Commons licence. Course Description: "Energy, Environment and Society" is an opportunity for first-year students to make direct contributions to energy innovations at MIT and in local communities. The class takes a project-based approach, bringing student teams together to conduct studies that will help MIT, Cambridge and Boston to make tangible improvements in their energy management systems. Students will develop a thorou more...

This online full course is provided by MIT OpenCourseWare under Creative Commons licence. It covers the use of ecological and thermodynamic principles to examine interactions between humans and the natural environment. Topics include conservation and constitutive laws, box models, feedback, thermodynamic concepts, energy in natural and engineered systems, basic transport concepts, life cycle analysis and related economic methods.
Topics such as renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, green more...

A nonprofit subsidiary of the National Geographic Society, JASON connects young students with great explorers and great events to inspire and motivate them to learn science. Its core curriculum units are designed for 5th – 8th grade classrooms but are flexible enough to be adapted for higher or lower grades. Telepresence is now embedded in JASON’s inquiry-based curriculum through videos, podcasts, Web casts, live chat sessions, and interactive computer simulations—all aligned to the U.S. n more...

The purpose of NASA’s Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth’s climate and environmental change. In particular, we hope our site is useful to public media and educators.

This website of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides a catalog of available images and animations from the NASA program.

ScienCentral News is a news service providing science news feeds for television stations. The feeds are available on the ScienCentral website, with accompanying text, and are suitable for educational purposes. Most stories are relatively short, as is appropriate for a television news program. A new service, titled Science Sensei provides programming targeted at teen agers. The site and its feeds are the product of ScienCentra, a production company specializing in science and technology content f more...

NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency' NASAs vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery is to be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers. Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With this partnership, those collections are to be made available through a single, searchable one-stop-shop archive of NASA imagery. Under the t more...