Environmental Science: Environmental Websites

This is a comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research. The GCMD database includes descriptions of data sets covering climate change, the biosphere, hydrosphere & oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change.

The EPA site for information on all aspects of water management including laws and regulations and details about research, sustainable use, clean water and wastewater management.

Searches over 60 databases and 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative government science information including research and development results.

SPL provides striking specialist imagery, unrivalled in quality, accuracy and depth of information. There are more than 400,000 images and 30,000 clips to choose from, with hundreds of new submissions uploaded to the website each week.

This project is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. ToL provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history.

Site contains news, general information, procedural reports, findings and contact information for international committees and projects. UNEP delivers authoritative environmental information from a broad range of information and data providers committed to making their information freely available.

The world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.1 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. WWF’s unique way of working combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.international concern.

Created by a division of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, CTIL contextualizes climatological information by comparing meteorological and climate patterns, events, and processes from successive time periods: 1 day, 1 year, 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years, and beyond. Each timescale offers its own collection of resources.

Offers current, authoritative information on climate change, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.