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Climate Change

Environment Resources to help students conduct research on topics of Climate Change

Databases for peer reviewed journals

Databases for newspapers

Searching for your topic by combining keywords: sample search strategies

amazon AND ("rain forest*" or rainforest*) AND (fire* or wildfire*) AND ("global warming" or "climate change")


"climate change" and (truth* or dispute* or false*)


wildfire* AND (recovery or restoration)

 

"wildland urban interface" AND "defensible space"


health impact* AND"global warming"

 

electric vehicle* AND emission* AND United States


climate change AND alternative energy

 

plastic* and ("developing countr*" or "third world" or china or brazil) and (profit* or recycle* or pollut*)   
 

(“climate change” or “global warming”) AND (pay* or responsib*) AND (justice or injustice)

Keywords for topic ideas: a sampling

"climate change"

"global warming"

"sea level"

"greenhouse gas*"

deforestation

"greenhouse effect"

Using Boolean to narrow your search

Search commands

Search Commands

 

*

asterisk

to truncate words at their roots or stems

safe* for 

safe and safety

“  “

quotation marks

to enclose a phrase or name

“gun control” 

 

OR

 

to connect related terms

global OR international

(   )

parentheses

To nest terms when for searches with multiple commands

(global OR international)

 

AND

 

to combine multiple facets

(global OR international) AND safe* AND “gun control”