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Originally Posted by Kätzchen
Do you have any suggestions for credible, non-partisan, scientific sources of information regarding enviormental issues pertaining to water, soil, climate (micro- & macro- indexes) that a person could access online? If so, I'd be very interested in broadening my reading repertoire of such things.
Thank you for any assistance you can provide, Aj
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Quite honestly, I think that the best source is Scientific American.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/.
They do a fantastic job of balancing articles that are accessible to a general readership while also having material written by working scientists whose work has been through the gauntlet of peer review. They are *not* a refereed (peer-reviewed) journal so they don't publish original research, rather they report on subjects that have already been published in journals.
Discover magazine also does a pretty good job:
http://discovermagazine.com/
A lot of folks I know love New Scientist as well. I'm less fond of them but they still, on balance, do very solid science reportage for the general reader:
http://www.newscientist.com/
Slightly less approachable (because this is an actual refereed journal) is Nature magazine:
http://www.nature.com/news/index.html. The thing is Nature is the gold-standard of science magazines. It is to science reporting what the Washington Post or the New York Times are to American news reporting, functioning as the 'paper of record' for the scientific community.
Cheers
Aj