An excellent site covering all aspects of life in space, with a variety of short pieces on terraforming. Not all links are active.

A recently founded Mars special interest and pressure group. In favour of further exploration and eventual settlement and terraforming of Mars.

The world's original spaceflight society. Many recent terraforming papers have been published in its journal JBIS.

A comprehensive review paper on the biological aspects of terraforming by Julian Hiscox.

The paper that rocked the recent terraforming conference. Brand new and exciting work by Mimi Gerstell of C.I.T. and colleagues.

Superb MSc project by students at ISU. Good online reports available.

An article from New Science magazine considering the utility of cyanobacteria as terraforming pioneers.

An article profiling scientist Margarita Marinova and her work on warming Mars with super- greenhouse gases.

A lengthy review paper, primarily concentrating on topics in geoengineering by Ben Matthews. Find it at his excellent Choose Climate web site.

A review of the concept of geoengineering the Earth's climate by fertilizing the oceans.

A paper by Jay Michaelson, originally published in the Stanford Law Journal.

An excellent technical-level paper on moving the Earth away from a brightening Sun and altering planetary orbits in general. A pdf is available from D.G. Korycansky's home page.

How is space colonization to be financed? A paper by John Hickman of Berry College.

Possibly the greatest fictional treatment of terraforming ever written: 10,000 lines of sparkling iambic pentameter by University of Texas at Dallas poet Fred Turner.

A breathtaking website, all about Martian timekeeping and terraforming. Visit and enjoy browsing the best map of a terraformed Mars on the Internet. By Frans Blok.

Learn all about terraforming Mars in French. A site by Gatien Lafore.

Beautifully done web pages about terraforming Mars in Spanish. Lots to see. Based at the website of the Spanish Mars Society.

View globes and maps of Mars and Venus with oceans. Zoom in on Venus and view terraformed landscapes. Very impressive. Courtesy of Lars Norlin.

A summary of the ideas of Australian terraformer Robert Parke, by Ron Garrison of Distant Star Magazine.

What is the point of going into space? The answer lies in a future economy based on "charm"; by University of Texas Professor Fred Turner.

A page introducing the concept of terraforming Mars. Don't forget to click on the IMAX images.

Well crafted archive of annotated references- running the gamut from initial moon & Mars expeditions to "corridor culture" settlement to terraforming. By D.S.F. Portree. Crucial stuff!

Rich with information and links. Hosted by Marsbugs Editor David Thomas.

Useful and unique compendium of equations for budding star system and planet designers. By John Bray.

A modern spin of the Atlantropa project by Glendale geoengineeer Richard Cathcart.

An article at BBC News SciTech describing how the orbit of the Earth might be gradually expanded to keep pace with the brightening Sun.

Two introductory pages from the NASA-Ames Research Center: the home of terraforming studies.

Nine sequential and excellently-rendered images of a Mars landscape being terraformed, by David Lauterbach.

An introductory feature at the Mission to Mars home page. Includes a painting by Julian Baum.

Includes a simulated flyby of a terraformed landscape.

An impressive site based on Stan Robinson's Mars Trilogy, featuring a stunning Map of a terraformed Mars, by Frans Blok.

A rapidly growing site dedicated to Mars colonization and terraforming, by Alex Moore.