The following web sites are reproduced from the appendix of The Secret Life of Dust, and are arranged by chapter. Apologies for dead links!

Chapter 2

A gorgeous portrait of the our galaxy, the Milky Way, including lots and lots of dust:
http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap980128.html

An illustrated diary of the Earth's formation in the original dusty disk:
http://www.psi.edu/projects/planets/planets.html

Infrared technology lets astronomers see through dust as though they had X-ray vision. This site lets you see IR in action:
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ir_tutorial/
A stereogram of interstellar dust:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/dust/

Did magical molecules on space dust deliver life to Earth? The Astrochemistry Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center has research links and recent articles on the subject:
http://www.astrochem.org/

Astrobiology, or the study of life among the stars (including ours), is a booming new field of research. NASA's site includes news, interviews, Q&A, and feature stories:
http://www.astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov

Chapter 3

Stardust, the mission to trap comet dust and return it to Earth, has its own web site:
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/msnover.html

NASA's dust-collecting division has a rich site with portraits of the little specks:
http://www.curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/dust/dust.htm

Comets come to life at the web site of astronomer David Jewitt, a comet expert from the University of Hawaii:
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html

Larry Nittler, who studies ancient dust by digging it out of meteorites, maintains a nice web site - including an image of space diamonds!
http://www.ciw.edu/lrn/

Chapter 4

Hear Woody Guthrie sing "The Dust Pneumonia Blues" at:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/dust/dust.html

Wind erosion didn't blow away with the Dust Bowl years. The problem continues, as the Wind Erosion Research Unit can testify:
http://www.weru.ksu.edu/

Dust on the wind, and its scouring effect on deserts and rocks, is explored with wonderful photographs at this USGS site:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/eolian/

Portraits of Oviraptors - and many other dinosaurs - can be found at:
http://www.dinodata.net/Dd/IMAHTM/O063.htm

"Earth from Space" is NASA's gallery of smashing shuttle photographs, including dust storms in the Taklamakan Desert of China, and the Djourab Sand Region of Chad.
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

Chapter 5

The Pan American Aerobiology Association publishes its newsletter and conference summaries on the internet. For the very latest on rambling molds, and marauding pollens, go to:
http://www.paaa.org

NASA's home-looking division publishes a wealth of information on fires, and other global issues - with photos:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

The Meteor Crater catastrophe in Arizona didn't kill any dinosaurs, but it's a good example of the damage an incoming asteroid can do:
http://www.barringercrater.com

This site is dedicated to ancient pollen, spores, and other microscopic fossils. "Pollen grain of the month," and children's corner included.
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology

Volcanoes are the stars at this United States Geological Survey site, which includes links to various volcano observatories:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html

Smoke from wildfires sometimes forms such vast plumes that it's easily visible from space. A series of astronaut photos is at:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/Mexico_Burning/#source
Diatoms, in stunning detail, are cataloged at this site:
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/biology/facilities/algae/html/Image_Archive.html

Chapter 6:

A massive dust storm swirls out of Asia, crosses the Pacific, and blurs the western U.S. in this series of satellite photographs:
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/asian_dust.html
The dust storm now called "The Asian Dust Events of April 1998" is recreated, animated, discussed and explained by interested scientists at this rich site:
http://capita.wustl.edu/Asia-FarEast/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a site that features satellite imagery of what they call "significant events." These range from eclipses to dust storms and giant plumes of smoke:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov

Deserts and other landforms as photographed from space, with an emphasis on the changing environment are at:
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents

Chapter 7:

The National Ice Core Lab collects and distributes ice cores to scientists. The "how it is done" section of this site has a chilling slide show of the entire ice-harvesting process. Dress warmly:
http://nicl.usgs.gov/index.html

This summarizes work by the USGS to understand how climate and dust interact in the southwestern U.S. Includes a stunning aerial photo of a dust storm in the San Joaquin Valley. And this page is just one in a special series of meaty features on USGS projects and discoveries:
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/geology/dust/
The EPA's pages on global climate change are simple, straight-forward, and include a "what can I do" component:
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/

Let NASA's TOMS satellite show you the aerosol
(dust) hot-spot of the day, from space:
http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Daniel Rosenfeld's satellite-aided method of locating "pollution tracks" is described here. Includes links and color-coded images of the tracks:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Pollution/

Chapter 8:

Some of dust's most ardent admirers advocate sprinkling the stuff in the garden, for bigger, better produce. Great history, testimonials:
http://www.Remineralize-the-Earth.org

"Earth from Space" is NASA's gallery of smashing shuttle photographs, including dust storms in the Taklamakan Desert of China, and the Djourab
Sand Region of Chad:
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/geon.htm

The story of Saharan dust and Caribbean coral
reefs is told with text, video, and many photos at:
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/

Lungs, lungs, lungs and lung diseases are the subject of the American Lung Association web site:
http://www.lungusa.org/

The United Nations Environmental Program takes a global view of long-lived and high-flying pollutants, POPs included. Zillions of links, and tons of information:
http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/

Chapter 9:

This site has pretty pictures of Cappadocia's fabulous caves, including frescoed churches, houses, and the astonishing "underground cities" that ramble for black and mysterious miles:
http://www.hitit.co.uk/regions/cappy/About.html

Learn what industries add to your home-town dust through the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory program. The "Explorer" tool allows you to dig through data county-by-county.
http://www.epa.gov/tri

Is your workplace dusty? The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health site has loads of dust-at-work research:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

NIOSH's "Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1999," tracks the grim numbers of death and disease in various dusty professions:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2000-105/2000-105.html

How many people die of… whatever! Check out the Centers for Disease Control site, for endless descriptions of diseases, death rates, and other statistics. Don't miss the "hoaxes and rumors" page:
http://www.cdc.gov

Arguably the world's greatest pathology site, containing everything you ever wanted to know about disease and death, including detailed descriptions and photographs. The pages are colossal, slow, and worth waiting for:
http://www.pathguy.com/index1.htm

Chapter 10:

The Environmental Protection Agency and The Consumer Product Safety Commission's publication on indoor air pollutants, The Inside Story: