The greenhouse gas nitrous oxide is 270 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, and it comes primarily form using fertilizer on crops.


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There is an exhaustive amount of information on how our environment is being effected by the changing climate. This list of environmental World Wide Web sites can be used as a starting point for your information search.
Acid Rain : You Can
Burning Issues / Clean Air Revival
Global Change Research Program
NASA: Climate and Radiation
National Center for Atmospheric Research
USGS: Radon Home Page
Environmental Protection Agency: Stratospheric Ozone
Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division
Greenpeace Ozone Home Page
GREENTIE (Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange)
Mission to Planet Earth
Department of Energy: Alternative Fuels Data Center
United Nations: Information Unit on Climate Change (IUCC)
Weather: Interactive Information Server
Weather: Information Services at MSU
Weather: National Weather Service
WeatherNet
Weather: Yahoo's List of Weather Sites
Global Climate Change Digest
Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas
Climate Dynamics and the Global Change Perspective
ECO Net
Global Recycling Network
Plant Earth Home Page
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Climate Diagnostics Center
National Park Service: Air Resources
Ozone Action
Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
US Global Change Research Information Office
The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Climate Processes Over the Oceans
Climate Stress Laboratory
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
Global Change Master Directory
The ORNL Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Ozone Depletion FAQs
Ozone Protection
Rapid Commercialization Initiative
Unidata: Atmospheric and Related Data
UCLA: Center for Clean Technology
University of Illinois: Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, The Daily Planet
University of Oregon's Energy & Environment
US Global Change Research Program
VAPOR-TEC: Engineering for a Cleaner Environment
Volcanism-Climate Interactions
New Scientist
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