A Basic Guide to International Environmental Legal ResearchInternational environmental law is an ever-changing, constantly expanding, and intriguing topic for international legal research. The vastness of this area of international law includes the environmental sub-issues of population, biodiversity, global climate change, ozone depletion, preserving the Antarctic regions, movement of toxic and hazardous substances, land or vessel-based pollution, dumping, conservation of marine living resources, trans-boundary air and water pollution, desertification, and nuclear damage.