Environmental Studies: Web Resources

Literature on biodiversity digitized by natural history and botanical libraries. Contains journal articles and other texts on more than one million species names.

The Center for Plant Conservation is dedicated solely to preventing the extinction of U.S. native plants.

ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.

An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The articles are written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The content is written in non-technical language, and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

A collaborative effort among several internationally known natural history institutions, with the goal of providing detailed information about all 1.8 million species of organisms on Earth via a single, free web portal. Content is synthesized from published literature and verified by volunteer scientists. Most of the content is text, although multimedia and interactive content is available for some entries.

The website of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), which accelerates development and facilitates deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and market-based solutions that strengthen U.S. energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality.

The EPA website includes information on various environmental issues, the science and technology related to these issues, and environmental laws and regulations.

Includes a database built on field studies in Kentucky nature preserves, reports on local species and natural communities, and maps of and information on state nature preserves.

The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the scientific basis for environmental decisionmaking. NCES provides the Encyclopedia of Earth.

The website of the United Nations' Natural Resources Management and Environment Department. The department's mission is to "address these issues and provide leadership, technical and policy advice and knowledge towards the sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources (land, water, genetic resources and biodiversity); improved responses to global environmental challenges affecting food and agriculture, such as climate change and land degradation; assessment of opportunities and challenges of bioenergy; and strengthened transfer and extension of knowledge required towards these goals. In addition, the Department serves as a neutral forum and venue for dialogue on sustainable use of natural resources."

Lists threatened and endangered species throughout the world, and links to additional resources on individual species.