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National Library for the Environment
 Includes Congressional Research Service Reports, Exchanges, Databases, and much more.

American Museum of Natural History

American Society of International Law

Beyond Discovery
The Path from Research to Human Benefit
"...is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted."
Subjects include: Agriculture ; Biology ; Chemistry ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Issues ; Health ; Mathematics ; Physics ; Technology.

Brookings Institution - Global Politics

  • Climate Change Policy: Next Steps
    Brookings Briefing, February 09, 2005.
    "At this Brookings briefing, a distinguished group of speakers will discuss the current state of climate change policy..."
    Remarks by Senator Chuck Hagel and Senator John Kerry.
  • U.S. Climate Policy: Toward a Sensible Center
    Joint Conference sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, June 2004.
    "...a major conference that brought together senators, CEOs, top federal and state officials, and other prominent leaders to debate the future of U.S. policy on climate change."

California Energy Commission

Canada - Environment Canada

Center for Development Research (ZEF)
University of Bonn

Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard Medical School

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

"Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States
 "This Environmental Fact Sheet is the latest publication in a series of publications describing the national waste stream based on data collected from 1960 through 1998. The historical perspective provided by the data is useful for establishing trends in types of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated and in the ways that MSW is managed. This year an environmental fact sheet summarizing the data and a set of background information tables was developed rather than a full report."
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Chemical Industry Archives
"The Chemical Industry Archive consists of documents from the chemical industry itself, most of which were obtained through lawsuits. Other documents were obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests."
A project of Environmental Working Group

Chernobyl Ten Years on Radiological and Health Impact
"An Assessment by the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health."

[China] Council on Foreign Relations

Citizen's Guide to Ground-Water Protection - (dead link) EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water

Cleaner and Greener Environment Newsletter

Co-management of Natural Resources:
Organizing, Negotiating and Learning-by-Doing.
Borrini-Feyerabend, G., Farvar, M. T., Nguinguiri, J. C. & Ndangang, V. A.: GTZ and IUCN, Kasparek Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), 2000.
"This volume is designed to assist facilitators and partners of co-management processes. It provides guidelines for multi-stakeholder management of natural resources and describes in detail relevant concepts, methods and tools. The emphasis is on practical approaches and advice, in line with the experience gained in field initiatives promoted by GTZ and IUCN."

Collection on Critical Global Issues
"The Collection on Critical Global Issues 2.0 was developed in 1999 by United Nations University Press. It contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology."
- The United Nations University

Conservation Science Institute

Consumers Union
From the publishers of Consumer Reports

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

  • Convention Text
  • The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)
  • [.pdf]
    "the world biggest web-based archive as a transdisciplinary knowledge base of sustainable development."
  • Sustaining Life on Earth
    How the Convention on Biological Diversity Promotes Nature and Human Well-Being
    "This booklet looks at the importance of biological diversity for the health of people and the planet. It explains the role of the Convention in protecting this biodiversity and ensuring that it is used for the benefit of all."

Dam and Reservoir Impact and Information Archive
"Herein you'll find information on dams, water diversions, impoundments, and hydroelectric projects and their impacts, and related links."

The Discovery of Global Warming (etext)
"A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to change the Earth's climate."
By Spencer Weart, Director of the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics.

Earth from Space -- An Astronaut's View of our Home Planet
A dataset of selected Astronaut acquired imagery of Earth from The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography database of over 250,000 images.

Earth Observing System (EOS)
 "...consists of a science component and a data system supporting a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans."
- NASA

EarthWire Africa: The Environmental News Portal
"...gives you a free daily overview of environmental news from 14 countries in southern Africa. Every weekday, a team of African journalists reviews more than 40 newspapers for environment-related news stories. Relevant stories are included in EarthWire/Africa where they can be viewed by country, topic, or time period. A search engine allows users to search for issues and keywords in the archive. Press releases and news from research organisations, the public sector, and environmental organisations will be included in the future as well."

EcoIQ.com - The EcoGateway Anthologies
Anthologies of articles include: Sustainability ; Land Use ; Air & Atmosphere ; Water and Wastewater ; Energy ; Transportation & Communication ; Solid Waste & Recycling ; Toxic & Hazardous Materials ; Green Design & Building ; Urban Greening ; Conserving the Built Environment.

ECOLEX: A Gateway to Environmental Law
"...designed to use IUCN's Environmental Law Information System (ELIS) as its core archival system and link this data to full text information available with UNEP's Computerised Environmental Law Information Base (CELIB) and other authoritative sources...Users can search using subject area, keyword, country, or date. The list of subjects includes, for example: climate/atmosphere; fresh water; marine environment; soils; forests; biodiversity; energy; protected areas; hazardous substances; and wastes. ECOLEX includes information on multilateral treaties; national legislation; European Union instruments; international "soft law" and related documents; law and policy literature; and judicial decisions."
United Nations Environmental Programme

Ecological Society of America - Education Section, ESA-EdWeb

EcoNews Africa
"...is a Non-Governmental Organisation that analyses global environment and development issues from an African perspective and reports on local, national, and regional activities that contribute to global solutions.

Educational Council on Indic Traditions - Ecology Articles

Energy Efficiency in Companies
Interdisciplinary analysis of of successful implementation of energy efficiency in the industrial, commercial and service sector. Final Report & Executive Summary.

Environment and Trade: A Handbook
By The United Nations Environment Programme and the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Environment Australia

Environmental Defense
"Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems."
Sections include: Action Center ; Biodiversity ; Climate Change ; Health ; Oceans ; Library.

  • Library
    Sections include: Reports ; Print Newsletters ; Filings & Testimonies ; Fact Sheets ; Letters ; Organizational Materials ; Educational Materials ; Publications Catalog.

Environmental Health in Family Medicine
Training Manual on Environmental Health in Family Medicine
"...is a set of modules based on clinical cases which can be used for self-learning, small-group learning or for case-based teaching. Target groups include residents in family medicine, pediatrics and ob/gyn, practicing physicians and other health
professionals including nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives."
- International Joint Commission

Environmental Health News
"...is published daily by Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health."

Environmental Management Internet Research Register
"...reports on current research worldwide, including studies completed during the past six to nine months. Research may be linked to an academic course of study or project, be independent, or organisation-based. Both industry and the academic world are represented, as well as the government and NGO sectors. The register aims to be comprehensive in its geographic and subject coverage and aims to maintain a sound balance between theory and practice."

Environment News Network

Environmental News Link

Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
"...is a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 122 countries. The ESI scores are based upon a set of 22 core "indicators," each of which combines two to six variables for a total of 67 underlying variables. The ESI permits cross-national comparisons of environmental progress in a systematic and quantitative fashion. It represents a first step towards a more analytically driven approach to environmental decision making."

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
"...a fast, convenient, comprehensive online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators."

Environmental Working Group

  • Rocket Science: - (dead link)
    Perchlorate and the Toxic Legacy of the Cold War
    "Perchlorate, the explosive main ingredient of missile and rocket fuel, has been detected in 58 California public water systems and in water or soil in 17 other states."

European Integration Online Papers (EloP)

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Fate and Effects on Alaskan Waters
"This site consists of 25 research paper abstracts presented at an ASTM Symposium in April 1993."

Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable - Publications Library

GEIN - German Environmental Information Network - (dead link) (English or German)
The Portal to German Environmental Information
"...brings together a wide range of information currently distributed across many different web sites run by public organisations in Germany, such as environmental authorities, agencies and ministries at the federal and Land (state) levels. It acts as an information broker for environmental information in Germany..."

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (GEMET)
"...has been created by merging different national and international thesauri. Analysis and evaluation work of numerous international experts and organisations let to a core terminology of generalised environmental terms and definitions."

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory
"...catalogues 1240 programs in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology, Foundation Engineering, Hydrogeology, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Data Analysis and Data Visualisation and lists 757 worldwide suppliers and publishers of these programs."
Compiled by Tom Spink

GEsource - Geography and Environment Gateway
"GEsource is an information resource for Geography and the Environment, and forms part of the Resource Discovery Network. The database currently contains 2739 resources."
Main Subject Areas include: Environment ; Physical Geography ; General Geography and Environmental Science ; Techniques and Approaches ; Human Geography.

Global Environmental Change: Re-thinking the Questions - (dead link)

  • "Risky Choices, Soft Disasters" - (dead link) "'Risky choices, soft disasters' summarises key lessons from socialscience research in the area of environmental decision-making."
  • "Who Governs the Global Environment?" - (dead link)
    "...summarises key lessons from social science research in the area of global governance. Important contributions of GECP studies to national and international research are highlighted in linked boxes."
  • "Producing Greener, Consuming Smarter" - (dead link)
    "...summarises key lessons from social science research in the area of sustainable production and consumption."

Global Warming and the Third World
 Tiempo - Issue 35, March 2000

Global Warming News Zone - (dead link) Global Warming and Greenhouse Effect News and Links
From explorezone.com

Great Globe Gallery
"This collection consists of the different maps and planiglobes, thematic and historical maps, cartographic nets in various projections (including equal-area as well as conformal ones), satellite images and artificial globes, icons and artistic visions as well as movies."
By Zbigniew Zwolinski

INFORM

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  • "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis" (January 2001)
    "The full report, which runs to over 1000 pages, has been over three years in production and is the work of 123 Lead Authors from around the world."

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
"...is an organization committed to the economically and environmentally sound and sustainable development of mountain areas and the improvement of livelihoods of mountain communities in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region."

International Environmental Law and Policy (etext)
A Comprehensive Reference Source
"This site has been designed for use in conjunction with our textbook, but it should prove useful as a stand-alone research site, as well... contains links to the book's 21 chapters and annexes. Each chapter contains relevant links to sites containing treaties, treaty offices, documents, NGOs, government agencies, and cool sites we found while surfing."
By David Hunter, Jim Salzman and Durwood Zaelke, 2nd Ed., 2002.
(University Casebook Series)

  • Treaties
    Sections include: International Lawmaking ; Principles ; Air and Atmosphere ; Ocean and Seas ; Freshwater Resources ; Hazardous Waste ; Wildlife ; Protection of Habitat ; International Trade ; Marine Living Resources.

International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE)
Lund University

International Institute for Sustainable Development

International Society for Ecology and Culture
"Promoting locally based alternatives to the global consumer culture"

International Society for Environmental Ethics

International Society for Industrial Ecology - (dead link)

  • Dissertation DataBase - (dead link)

Living On Earth
NPR's Environmental News Show

Love Canal Collection
 Includes: Introduction ; Online Documents ; Guide to Collection ; Related Materials ; Links
State University of New York, Buffalo, University Libraries

Mining Laws of Asian Countries (MLAC)
English full-text versions of major laws and legislation of 13 Asian countries.
By The Metal Mining Agency of Japan

Municipal Solid Waste Factbook
"...an electronic reference manual containing over 250 screens of information about household waste management practices."

NASA's Visible Earth
 "a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth"

National Academy Press (free online editions)

National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
 (formerly the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment)

National Geographic

  • EarthPulse
    National Geographic's Home for Conservation
    "...monthly reports on Earth's 'vital signs,' from the oceans to the ozone, showing readers how the issues affect each one of us, why we should care, and how we can become involved in making things better..."
  • Eye in the Sky
    "...an investigation into the state of the planet from the point of view of satellites."
    Sections include: Nature's Fury ; Human Impact ; Exploration ; Human Conflict ; News ; Classroom Ideas ; History of Satellites ; Resources & Links.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    "The journal is a forum for the discussion of the effect of the environment on human health and consists of a monthly edition, a quarterly toxicogenomics edition, a quarterly Chinese edition, and special single topic issues."
  • Report on Carcinogens

National Library for the Environment (NLE)
"universal, timely, and easy-to-use single-point entry to environmental information and data for the use of all participants in the environmental enterprise.
- National Council for Science and the Environment

National Public Radio (NPR) - The Connection.org

National Wildlife Magazine
Publication of the National Wildlife Federation

  • Orcas on the Edge
    "A brutal combination of pollution, global warming, declining prey and heavy boat traffic is sending the Puget Sound orca population to new lows."
    By Ken Olsen, Oct/Nov 2006

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (NJEDL) - (dead link)
"...is an online repository of environmental literature and multimedia related to New Jersey. The digital collection includes documents and reports, scientific studies, photographs, videos and maps...Most of the items in this collection are considered "ephemeral" or "grey literature" - that is, unavailable through common research tools like library catalogs and indexes."

North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation Between the Government of Canada, the Government of the United Mexican States and the Government of the United States of America (1993)
From the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation site

Northwest Environment Watch

  • Cascadia Scorecard (March 2004)
    "...a new gauge of regional progress that monitors seven key trends--health, economy, population, energy, sprawl, forests, and pollution--that are profoundly shaping the region's future."

NOLA Live
 Affiliated with The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

Nova Australia - Science in the News

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - (dead link)

Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security

  • Bibliography: Climate Change and Its Impact on Biodiversity
     "This bibliography of peer-reviewed and gray literature (including journal articles, newspaper articles, reports and materials on the Internet) focuses on climate change (defined herein as global warming or ozone depletion) and its impacts on flora and fauna species and critical supporting ecosystems. Over 2013 citations have been included to date and the bibliography will be updated every two months."
    By Wil Burns

PopEnvironment
Population & Environment Linkages Service
"Abstracts and links to 14,199 books, reports, journal articles, newspaper articles, news analysis, maps, conference papers, datasets, slide shows, organizations, regional overviews, laws, bills, and court decisions, and much more from around the world...brings comprehensive and reliable information to researchers, students, policymakers, government officials and others around the world who are working on, or concerned about, the linkage between population growth on the environment -- a service called for in the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo Conference) Programme of Action."

Population Action International

  • "Nature's Place: Human Population and the Future of Biological Diversity." - (dead link)
    Report by Dr. Richard Cincotta and Robert Engleman

Population Reference Bureau
"...contains the latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators for all geographic entities with populations of 150,000 or more and all members of the United Nations."

Remote Sensing & Image Analysis
Online textbook by Prof. Peng Gong for his courses in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley.

Resources for the Future (RFF)

Rocky Mountain Institute - Library - (dead link) "This library contains RMI's more popular publications, organized by topical category. All files found here are available in free downloadable PDF format."

Scientific Institute for Environmental Management - (dead link)
Faculty of Economics & Econometrics, University of Amsterdam

  • Publications - (dead link)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Special Report - The Sound of Broken Promises (October 2006)
"This six-part special report both chronicles the long life of Granny, the respected elder in her Northwest orca pod, and examines the weak regulations, spotty enforcement and political foot-dragging that have put local orcas in jeopardy. Whale lovers and marine advocates wonder if the recent adoption of Endangered Species Act protections for orcas and a pending plan to restore our inland sea will finally reverse the decline. Or will Granny and her pod continue swimming in a sea of broken promises?"

Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI)

Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
"...incorporates 679 excerpts from original sound recordings and 1,256 photographs from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley...The online collection includes extensive interviews on native forest species and the seasonal round of traditional harvesting...and documents community cultural events such as storytelling, baptisms in the river, cemetery customs, and the spring "ramp" feasts using the wild leek native to the region. Interpretive texts outline the social, historical, economic, environmental, and cultural contexts of community life, while a series of maps and a diagram depicting the seasonal round of community activities provide special access to collection materials
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Tennessee Valley Authority

Trade Secrets : A Moyers Report
"...reveals how the public's right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been compromised. On this site, you will read documents from a secret archive uncovered during a lawsuit against chemical companies...You will also see how chemicals pervade your daily life."
- PBS Online

Trust for Public Land (TPL)

  • "Puget Sound Salmon Report"
    Conservation Priorities: An Assesment [sic] of Freshwater Habitat for Puget Sound Salmon.
    By Dr. Chris Frissell, Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana; Peter Morrison, Pacific Biodiversity Institute; Jim Kramer, natural resource consultant; and Marie Mentor, a consultant and former TPL Washington State Director.

United Nations Environment Programme

U.S. Department of Energy Publications see Environment Studies - (DOE)

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Publications see Environmental Studies - EPA

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Publications see Geology Resources - USGS

U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)

U.S. PIRG - (dead link)

  • Danger In The Air: The 2001 Ozone Season Summary (August 2002)
    "...is the third annual compilation of data from a network of more than a thousand ozone monitors across the nation. Our findings demonstrate a need for aggressive action to reduce emissions of the pollutants that cause smog formation."

University of California, Berkeley - Digital Library Project

  • CalPhotos - (dead link)
    "...is a collection of 49,292 images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes. A variety of organizations and individuals have contributed photographs to CalPhotos."

University of Wisconsin - Land Tenure Center
"...serves as a global resource institution on issues relating to land ownership, land rights, land access, and land use. Our focus is on the relationship of land to economic development, socio-political organization, and environmental sustainability."

White House

World Bank Group

  • Environmental Forum
  • New Ideas in Pollution Regulation (NIPR)
    "A site for researchers, government officials, and citizens interested in understanding and improving control of industrial pollution, especially in developing countries. NIPR is the primary source for materials produced by the World Bank's Economics of Industrial Pollution Control Research Project."

World Energy Project - World And Regional Assessment Summaries - (dead link)
"The data available on this page is a compilation of World Energy Project (WEP) assessment results. The WEP assessment estimates the volume of oil and gas, exclusive of the U.S., that may be added to the world's reserve in the next 30 years. Additional data will be placed on these pages as they are processed, documented, and released."

World Environmental Library
"The World Environment Library 1.0 was developed in December 1999 by GTZ and the Humanity Libraries Project. It contains 400 publications (45,000 pages) of ideas and solutions in the fields of Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Energy, Health, Natural Resources, Policy, Sustainable Development, Waste Management and Water."
The New Zealand Digital Library Project, University of Waikato

World Resources Institute
Includes online reports

  • Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems Agroecosystems
     "This analysis determines the extent of agricultural land use and assesses the status of agroecosystems on a global basis. The report is the most comprehensive mapping of global agriculture to date. It also shows ways to better understand and monitor changes in the capacity of the systems to provide sustainable goods and services."
    By Stanley Wood, Kate Sebastian and Sara J. Scherr

WWF

  • Living Planet Report
    "...is WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems. This is measured using 2 main indicators ... The Living Planet Index is derived from trends over the past 30 years in populations of hundreds of species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
  • "Global Warming and Terrestrial Biodiversity Decline"
    World Wide Fund for Nature report

Bibliographies

See also our Environmental History Bibliographies page.

International Environmental Law and Policy (etext)
A Comprehensive Reference Source
By David Hunter, Jim Salzman and Durwood Zaelke, 2nd Ed., 2002.
(University Casebook Series)

  • International Environment Law Bibliography - Pre-1992
    "...contains references to numerous late 19th century-1992 materials on international environmental law, arranged by subject matter in pdf files. ELR thanks Don Anton, Director, Australian Centre for Environmental Law-ANU and Convenor, Environmental Law Programs, Australian National University Faculty of Law, for these materials."
    - Environmental Law Reporter

International Society for Environmental Ethics

Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security

  • Bibliography: Climate Change and Its Impact on Biodiversity
     "This bibliography of peer-reviewed and gray literature (including journal articles, newspaper articles, reports and materials on the Internet) focuses on climate change (defined herein as global warming or ozone depletion) and its impacts on flora and fauna species and critical supporting ecosystems. Over 2013 citations have been included to date and the bibliography will be updated every two months."
    By Wil Burns

PopEnvironment
Population & Environment Linkages Service
"Abstracts and links to 14,199 books, reports, journal articles, newspaper articles, news analysis, maps, conference papers, datasets, slide shows, organizations, regional overviews, laws, bills, and court decisions, and much more from around the world...brings comprehensive and reliable information to researchers, students, policymakers, government officials and others around the world who are working on, or concerned about, the linkage between population growth on the environment -- a service called for in the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo Conference) Programme of Action."

Resources for Teaching and Researching Northwest Environmental History - (dead link)
Prepared in Conjunction with the Northwest Environmental History Symposium (Pullman, Washington, August 1-4, 1996).
Compiled by Kathryn Botsford, Dale Goble, Paul Hirt, and Andrea Sabo.

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