The Environment

General Environment
Ecology
Habitats, Reserves, & Conservation
Population
Land & Water Use
Energy and Resources
Global Warming & Climate Change
Pollution

General Environment

General
Dictionaries
Link Sites
News
Socio-Economic Factors
Environment & Law
Philosophy
Education
Government Agencies
Environmental Organizations

General

Global Change Master Directory

Gateway to Global Change Data

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

National Library for the Environment

EarthTrends -- The Environmental Information Portal

GEO Data Portal

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

Earth Portal

Earth Portal -- Digital Universe

biogeosciences.org

UNEP/GRID-Arendal

Down to Earth

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

Actionbioscience.org -- issues in environment

Aldo Leopold Foundation

Our Future, Our Environment

Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability

Ecological & Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management

ENTRI -- Environmental Treaties & Resource Indicators

Biodiversity Economics Library

Earth Science World ImageBank

Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches

See also: Sustainability Demography & Population, Satellite Images of Earth, & Maps

Dictionaries

Terms of Environment

UCMP Glossary of Natural History Terms, #5 -- Ecological Terms

Environment

Chemistry & Environmental Dictionary

Specialty Dictionaries: Environment

Link Sites

Intute: Environmental Sciences

Intute: Environmental Engineering

Academic Info: Environmental Studies

News

Environmental News Network

EnviroLink

Planet Ark

Grist

GREENlines

Socio-Economic Factors

International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change

SEDAC -- Socioeconomic Data & Applications Center

American Institute of Sustainable Science & Technology

Is Economics a Pseudoscience ?

Demographic Information

See also: Anthropology

Environment & Law

ECOLEX - A gateway to Environmental Law

ENTRI -- Environmental Treaties & Resource Indicators

Environmental Defense

Philosophy of Ecology & Environment

Center for Environmental Philosophy

See also: Philosophy of Science

Environmental Education

Environmental Literacy Council

ESA EcoEdNet

Environmental Education Link

Government Agencies

The EPA -- USA

EPA Science Inventory -- USA

Environmental Information Management System -- USA

National Park Service -- USA

Department of the Environment and Water Resources -- Australia

Ohio EPA

Environmental Organizations

General Environmental Organizations
Population Organizations
Regional Organizations

General Environmental Organizations

American Forests

Conservation International

Environmental Defense

Friends of the Earth

IUCN -- International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Izaac Walton League

League of Conservation Voters

National Audubon Society

National Wildlife Federation

National Resources Defense Council

The Nature Conservancy

Rainforest Action Network

The Sierra Club

Union of Concerned Scientists

World Resources Institute

World Wildlife Fund

Population Organizations

Population Action International

Population Connection -- formerly ZPG

The Population Council

Population Institute

Population Reference Bureau

Regional Organizations

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Ecology

UCMP Glossary of Natural History Terms, #5 -- Ecological Terms

Biocomplexity Thesaurus

Theoretical Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America

Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)

Population Ecology

Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, & Diversity Studies To 1950

National Biological Information Infrastructure

Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network

Industrial Ecology: A Historical View

CourseWare -- Environmental Science Simulators

See also: General Environment: Dictionaries & General Environment: Link Sites

Habitats, Reserves, & Conservation

General
Restoration
Specific Habitats
Species Information

General

Biodiversity & Conservation

Ecology and Society

World Atlas of Biodiversity

issues in biodiversity -- Actionbioscience.org

ConservationEvidence.com

Biodiversity Hotspots

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Exploring Biodiversity [note: this site does not seem to be compatible with Mozilla Firefox or with later versions of Netscape (it worked with 4.7, but not with 7.2)]

Academic Info: Biodiversity

Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, & Diversity Studies To 1950

Mass Extinction -- links

Biodiversity & Biological Collections

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

International Association for Landscape Ecology

Convention on Biological Diversity

Research Archive -- Bushmeat Crisis Task Force (BCTF)

Bushmeat Mapserver

US Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Canadian Biodiversity Information Network

Decomposition

Climate Data Plotting page

See also: Taxonomy & Systematics, Evolution, Microbiology, Botany, & Zoology & Veterinary Medicine

Restoration

Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)

Restore America's Estuaries

River Corridor & Wetland Restoration (EPA)

Mangrove Replenishment Initiative

Specific Habitats & Kinds of Life

Oceans
Estuaries, Wetlands, etc.
Rivers & Lakes
Forest Habitats
Tropical Habitats
Arid & Semi-Arid Habitats
Polar Habitats
Mountain Habitats
Soils
Specific Localities

Oceans

Academic Info: Oceanography

United Nations Atlas of the Oceans

Ocean Forum

MarineBio.org

History of Marine Animal Populations

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

America's Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change

Coral Reefs

Shifting Baselines -- the truth about ocean decline

Sea Around Us Project

NOAA Ocean Explorer

Ocean Primary Productivity Study

SeamountsOnline

Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

See also: Oceanography

Estuaries, Wetlands, etc.

National Wetlands Inventory

Restore America's Estuaries

USGS National Wetlands Research Center

UNEP project to help manage and restore the Iraqi Marshlands

River Corridor & Wetland Restoration (EPA)

Mangrove Replenishment Initiative

Mangrove Biocomplexity

See also: Hydrology & Water Use

Rivers & Lakes

Water on the Web -- Limnology

International Rivers Network

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species

Specialty Dictionairies: Fish

The Ohio Tributary Loading Program

See also: Hydrology & Water Use

Forest Habitats

Academic Info: Forestry & Forest Science

Specialty Dictionairies: Forestry

Global Forest Watch

Center for Tropical Forest Science

Woods Hole Research Center: Tropical Forest Ecology

Euroforest Portal

Forest Fires

See also: Trees, Forests, & Silviculture

Tropical Habitats

Tropical Ecosystems

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Bioinformatics Office

Center for Tropical Forest Science

Woods Hole Research Center: Tropical Forest Ecology

Arid & Semi-Arid Habitats

SAHRA -- Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas

Polar Habitats

Arctic Report Card

See also: Polar Science & Exploration

Mountain Habitats

GLORIA: The Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments

Soils

Soil Biological Communities

Biological Soil Crusts

Agriculture: Soil

TundraCam

Arctic Circle

Specific Localities

Alaska Geobotany Center -- Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map

RangeView: Geospatial Tools for Natural Resource Management

Everglades Digital Library

Ocean Oasis -- Baja Califonia & Sea of Cortés

Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project (HEAR)

The Nature Audit -- WWF-Canada

Biodiversity of Mexico - fauna, flora, ecosystems

Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana

SERVIR -- Mesoamerican Visualization and Monitoring System

Extremophiles in Kamchatka

Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe

CIESM Atlas - New Exotic Species in the Mediterranean Sea

Bio-GIS -- Israel Biodiversity Information System

NCL Centre for Biodiversity Informatics -- India

Indian Bioresource Information Network

Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains Region, China

South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity

BIFLORA -- Hainan

Australian Biological Resources Study

Species Information

General Species Information
Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals
Invasive Species

General Species Information

World Biodiversity Database

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

Discover Life

NatureServe -- 50,000+ Species of Plants & Animals

World Information Network on Biodiversity

WildFinder

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Ecoport

iSpecies.org - a species search engine

ARKive - images of life on Earth

CREO (Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms) -- American Museum of Natural History

See also: Genetics, Evolution, & Sytematics, Microbiology, Botany, & Zoology & Veterinary Medicine

Fish

NEODAT -- Inter-Institutional Database of Fish Biodiversity in the Neotropics

See also: Fish

Amphibians

GAA: Global Amphibian Assessment

AmphibiaWeb

FrogWeb: Amphibian Declines & Malformations

See also: Amphibians

Reptiles

EMYSystem -- global turtle conservation

Marine Turtle Interactive Mapping System

Indian Ocean - South-East Asian Marine Turtles

See also: Reptiles

Birds

Bird Migration, Population Studies, & Conservation

InfoNatura -- Birds & Mammals of Latin America

See also: Birds

Mammals

Animal Info -- Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals

CarnivoreConservation.org

InfoNatura -- Birds & Mammals of Latin America

The Tapir Gallery

Bat Conservation International

Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme

See also: Mammals

Invasive Species

IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group

Invasivespecies.gov

Invasive Species Weblog

Nonindigenous Species Database

Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas

Invasive Species Initiative

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species

D A I S I E: European Alien Species Expertise Registry

CIESM Atlas - New Exotic Species in the Mediterranean Sea

Guide to the Exotic Species of San Francisco Bay

Southwest Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse

Population

Population Reference Bureau Glossary of Population Terms

AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment

The Genographic Project -- Human Migration, Population Genetics

T. Robert Malthus' HomePage

Thomas Robert Malthus

Essay on the Principle of Population, by T.R. Malthus

Population Organizations

See also: Demography & Population

Land & Water Use

Growth, Sprawl & Urban Planning

Agriculture

Specialty Dictionaries: Water

Hydrology & Water Use

World Commission on Dams

TranStats -- The Intermodal Transportation Database

Canyons, Cultures & Environmental Change -- Introduction to the Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau

See also: Habitats, Reserves, & Conservation

Energy & Resources

Energy
Resources

Energy

Specialty Dictionairies: Energy

energy.gov

US Energy Information Administration

Laboratory For Energy and the Environment -- MIT

Fossil Fuels

Nuclear Power

Renewable Energy Sources & Energy Efficiency

Fuel Cells 2000

HyWeb -- Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells

Reliable, Affordable, and Environmentally Sound Energy for America's Future

Resources

Resources Life-Cycle Assessment

Pollution

General
Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Pesticides
Specific Pollutants

General

TOXNET

ECOTOX

Integrated Risk Information System

EnviroMapper

IRIS Chemical Assessment Tracking System

Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Database Network

TOXMAP

Scorecard -- Pollution Indicators

University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database

Comparative Toxicogenomics Database

EXTOXNET -- The EXtension TOXicology NETwork

Chemical Backgrounders -- National Safety Council

Field Analytic Technologies Encyclopedia

Guide for Handling Household Chemicals

Hazardous Chemical Database

Green Chemistry

Nano Coalition Environmental, Health and Safety Database

See also: Medical & Environmental Aspects of Chemicals

Air Pollution

AirData : Access to Air Pollution Data

Up-to-date information on ozone conditions across Europe

Ozone Depletion

Center for Ozone Data & Information

Ozone Hole Watch

CAMNET -- Realtime Air Pollution & Visibility Monitoring

HEI Air Quality Database

Atmospheric Chemistry Glossary

EPA Models-3

See also: Global Warming & Climate Change

Water Pollution

Water Pollution and Society

USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)

The Ohio Tributary Loading Program

Pesticides

EPA Office of Pesticide Programs

PANNA -- Pesticide Action Network North America

See also: Agriculture: Pests, Weeds, & Diseases

Specific Pollutants

Acid rain data and reports

history of lead advertising

Chronic Arsenic Poisoning

The groundwater arsenic problem in Bangladesh

The Geology of Radon

University of Michigan Health Physics Web Site

Noise Pollution Clearinghouse

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