Research Guides: Climate Change: Library Database, Book & Video Resources

Database Resources @ Wilkens Library

Environmental Studies (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
From climate change to automobile emissions, today’s environmental issues determine the destiny of tomorrow’s world. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides users with comprehensive information, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important topics that affect people around the world. Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more.
GreenFile This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Environment Complete is a leading full-text database for environmental studies. It provides hundreds of top environment journals and monographs covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. It also includes millions of records and an environmental thesaurus.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Targeted collection of journals and reference books covering environmental issues policies from scientific, government and industry perspectives.
Science (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive range of science journal, news, reference works, AV resources and interactive exercises supporting high school curricula and university coursework.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Offers a range of perspectives on important issues to help critical-thinking skills using reference, periodical, news, primary and multimedia sources.

Streaming Videos @ Wilkens Library

Can Humans Adapt to Climate Change?: A Debate
If climate change continues at its present pace, it will test and challenge humanity's capacity for adaptation and survival. Can humans adapt to climate change?

Climate Change: The Facts
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.
Normal is Over 1.1: Innovative Solutions to Global Decline
Earth Emergency
Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Earth Emergency explores how human activity sets in motion Earth’s own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet. Leading climate scientists examine this missing piece of the climate puzzle which is pushing the climate to a tipping point.
Breakpoint: A Counter history of Progress: N.A
With extensive archive footage, this documentary tracks how man has exploited the planet for his own gain and to the detriment of the natural world, over the last two centuries.
12th Hour
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm.
Once You Know
Offers a unique perspective, both personal and universal, that re-contextualizes the climate problem as not something approaching, but something already here, and charts out how we can best live in this new paradigm while attempting to mitigate its worst effects.
Food for Change
Our plate is our most powerful weapon in fighting global warming and in protecting our planet.
Generation Greta
They are aged between 12 and 24. They have grown up in a world with increasing droughts, floods, fires. And they share a common fight: the climate emergency.