Environment: Web Sources

Offers a wide range of information of interest to users who range from students to health professionals, from air pollution to water.

"Climate Central surveys and conducts scientific research on climate change and informs the public of key findings."

The National Drought Mitigation Center Drought Atlas project is intended to provide a wide range of decision makers with historical drought information and a web-based tool to visualize and assess their risk to drought

"The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society."

Portal to EPA's information on a wide variety of environmental subjects. Browse by state, popular topics and more.

The Atlas is a product of collaboration by numerous scientists, organisations
and projects active in freshwater biodiversity research and conservation

"The IUCN Species Programme working with the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) has for more than four decades been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties, and even selected subpopulations on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation."

The MyEnvironment search application is designed to provide a cross-section of environmental information based on the user's location.

Resources available here include Wetlands Mapper, Google Earth, and Status and Trends

NOAA Climate.gov is a source of timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate.

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases, from the National Library of Medicine.

USGS gateway allows the user to browse information including earthquake data, maps, science topics, and multimedia gallery