The title can be misleading, since many individual links are not directly related to environmental topics. A regular maintenance time should begin soon, and maybe the menus will become more dependable as well. The message area is typical of bulletin board systems, permitting messaging to other users. For those active in the message areas, an offline reader requires only a brief connection to download or upload, an messages can be read offline. It is an important feature for those who pay a per-minute charge for Internet access or for long distance.
Searches show a rather clumsy chopping of the book into files.
The fact sheets are brief full-text offerings from the United Nations Environment Programme. Covering a wide variety of research into climatological changes, the fact sheets include both historical and recent research, although none have a date later than 1992. The Online Acid Rain Experiment includes an introduction, a lesson plan, and the ability to enter results into a database and download other's results. However, it still has a long hill to climb to fulfill its mission and to develop more user-friendly interfaces. Online Inc. All rights reserved.