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Distinguished Educational Games

- PowerUp


PowerUp is a

• 3D,
• action-strategy,
• online,
• multiplayer game designed to save Planet Helios from ecological devastation!

Technical requirements:
# Processor: Pentium III or IV 2GHz processor
# Video RAM: 128 Mb
# Screen resolution set to a minimum of 1024x768.
# System RAM: 1Gb
# Hard Drive Storage: 150 MB
# Broadband Internet connection
# Mouse recommended

Distinguished Educational Games

- WolfQuest



WolfQuest is 3D wildlife simulation game and helps to understand the world of wolfs.
By living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park you can easily learn the concepts of ecology.

Players try to form a family pack, raise pups, and ensure the survival of their pack with two playing mods: single-player and online multiplayer game.

There is also an online community where you can discuss the game with other players, chat with wolf biologists, and share artwork and stories about wolves.

System Requirements:

Windows:
* Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher (DirectX 9.0c or higher must be installed). Vista is supported but may exhibit video driver issues.
* 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or higher
* 220 MB hard drive space
* Millions of colors
Minimum to run Fastest Graphics Quality Setting
* 800x600 screen resolution
* 512 MB RAM Windows XP / 1 GB RAM Vista (1 GB RAM Windows XP / 2 GB RAM Vista recommended)
* Minimum Graphics Cards:
o Intel 82865G (also known as 910G) integrated graphics or higher (May require driver update; older Intel chipsets may run the game, but with rendering artifacts and very low framerates.)
o NVIDIA GeForce 2
o ATI Radeon 7500
* Recommended graphics cards to run on Good or above quality setting and/or higher resolution (1024x768 recommended):
o NVIDIA GeForce 6 series or later
o ATI Radeon 9500 or later

Free and Online

Environmental Science Journals


Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
# provides a global stage for presenting, discussing and developing issues concerning ethics in science, environmental politics, and ecological and economic ethics
# publishes accepted manuscripts rapidly
# guarantees immediate world-wide visibility
# is edited and produced by an experienced team

Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement - Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment
"Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment" publishes original papers, research notes, review articles, summaries of books and theses as well as reviews of workshops and conferences in the fields of crop and animal productions and sciences, forest sciences, soil and earth sciences, rural engineering, environment, bioindustries, food technologies, economy and sociology.

Environmental Research Letters
The open access journal fpr environmental science.

Climate of the Past
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union

Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and its content is free online. Print issues are available by paid subscription.

Climate of the Past Discussions
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union

Electronic Green Journal
The Electronic Green Journal is one of the first peer-reviewed digital journals promoting an open access publishing model. Since its inception in July of 1994, the EGJ has allowed all Internet users unrestricted access to original articles and book reviews on international environmental topics.
The main goal of the Electronic Green Journal is to assist in international scholarly environmental communication by providing a quality, unbiased, and freely accessible forum for the exchange of environmental information as an alternative to costly, commercially produced scientific journals. The EGJ is published semiannually by the University of Idaho Library.

Conservation & Society
An interdisciplinary journal exploring linkages between society, environment and development

Ekoloji
Quarterly published international journal of environment of Foundation for Enviromental Protection and Research (FEPR)

Current Science
Current Science, founded in 1932 is published by the Current Science Association in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences. The journal is also intended as a medium for communication and discussion of important issues that concern science and scientific activity. All articles published in Current Science, especially editorials, opinions and commentaries, letters and book reviews, are deemed to reflect the individual views of the authors and not the official points of view, either of the Current Science Association or of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union

EARSeL eProceedings
European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
AAEM is a scientific journal edited and published semiannually since 1994 by the Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin, Poland.
All scientists interested in the area of agricultural and environmental medicine are cordially invited to contribute.

Baltica
International Journal on Geosciences of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Geology and Geography

American Journal of Environmental Sciences
AJES is an international peer reviewed journal, presents original research articles, reviews, and letters in all areas of environmental studies and environmental sciences.

Ambiente e Agua : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science

African Journal of Environmental Assessment and Management
AJEAM - RAGÉE is a free, OPEN-ACCESS, expedited, peer-reviewed international
bi-lingual (French and English) Journal of the environmental sciences
focusing on AFRICA's environmental assessment and management issues