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Environmental Science
Directories,
Megasites and Online Encyclopedias
Amazing Environmental Organization
Web Directory!
http://www.webdirectory.com/
Besides having what it claims is the "Earth's biggest environment
search engine," this site also is a web directory for all things
environmental. Thirty categories are available to lead you to sites
dealing with the environment.
Columbia Earthscape
http://www.earthscape.org/
Web portal to resources related to education and research in earth
sciences and environmental policy. It is divided into four main
sections: research, education, links and resources, and an online
magazine, Earth Affairs. The site offers papers, conference proceedings,
journal abstracts, a daily news service, and links to databases,
datasets, and quality websites.
eelink
http://eelink.net/
A project of the NAAEE, eelink provides a multitude of resourses
for environmental education.
EnvironLink Network
http://envirolink.netforchange.com/
Commercial Environmental directory and news resource site.
Environmental
Law Net
http://www.environmentallawnet.com.html
Searchable direct links to federal and state environmental statutes
and regulations, environmental laws of countries around the world,
international environmental treaties and agreements, and environmental
laws of native american tribes
EnviroLink Network
http://www.envirolink.org/
Non-profit organization provides links to government agencies, publications,
activist organizations and internet resources.
Envirofacts
Data Warehouse
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html
Access to EPA core datasets on air pollution, chemical names and
safety, grants, hazardous wastes, regulated facilities, safe drinking
water, Superfund sites, toxic chemical releases and water discharge
permits.
GreenNet
http://www.gn.apc.org/
GreenNet provides information resources that is geared to the needs
of non profit organisations, activists and people working for social
change
MegaLaw.com
http://www.megalaw.com/top/.php
Searchable legal database on Environmental subjects. National and
international materials.
National Environmental
Directory
http://www.environmentaldirectory.net/
This is "a directory of more than 13,000 organizations in the
United States concerned with environmental issues and environmental
education." You can search the entire U.S. or by region.
National
Library for the Environment
http://www.cnie.org/nle/
Contains reports, databases, educational resources, daily environmental
and Congressional news, conference information, and continually
updated full-text Congressional Research Service reports (over 1,1000
at last count).
NatureServe: An Online Encyclopedia
of Life
http://www.natureserve.org/
Conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for
over 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities in the United
States and Canada, provided by the Association for Biodiversity
Information and the Natural Heritage Network.
TOXNET
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
The National Library of Medicine''s grouping of searchable databases
on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes
references to toxicology literature from TOXLINE, EMIC (Environmental
Mutagen Information Center), and DART/ETIC (Developmental and Reproductive
Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center); data
from HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis
Research Information System), IRIS (Integrated Risk Information
System), and GENE-TOX; and other resources.
Wilderness
Net
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm
"Wilderness.net is an Internet-based tool connecting the natural
resource workforce, scientists, educators, and the public to their
wilderness heritage through ready access to wilderness information.
Through Wilderness.net and its partners, you'll find access to general
information about wilderness, stewardship and educational resources,
scientific information, agency policies, relevant legislation, communication
tools to connect you with others in the wilderness community and
more" A very useful source. Excellent for accessing legal information,
including Acts.
WWW- Virtual Library - Bio-Science
http://vlib.org/Biosciences
Extensive index of useful and informative web sites on arth Bio-science
topics.
WWW- Virtual Library - Earth
Science
http://vlib.org/EarthScience
Extensive index of useful and informative web sites on arth science
topics.
WWW - Virtual
Library - Forestry
http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/Forestry/
Extensive index of useful and informative web sites on forestry.
Hosted by METLA,
Finnish Forest Research Institute.
Web Sites
Agriculture Network Information
Center (AGNIC)
http://www.agnic.org/
Guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected
by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and
other institutions.
American Environmental Photographs,1891-1936
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/icuhtml/aephome.html
Images from the University of Chicago Library provided through the
American Memory Project.
Bio-Indicators Page
http://www.epa.gov/bioindicators/
Page with extensive information from the EPA.
Brownfields, Center for
Brownfields Initiatives
http://www.brownfields.com/
University of New Orleans site created to facilitate the redevelopment
of brownfields.
Cyburbia: Internet Resources
for the Built Environment
http://www.cyburbia.org/
Good for urban and regional planning issues.
EarthJustice Legal Defense
Fund
http://www.earthjustice.org/
Formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense site, Earthjustice works
through the courts to
safeguard public lands, national forests, parks, and wilderness
areas; to reduce air and water pollution;
to prevent toxic contamination; and to preserve endangered species
and wildlife habitat.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy Network (EREN)
http://www.eere.energy.gov/
U.S. Department of Energy's site, with access to more than 600 links
and 80,000 documents.
Endangered Species
Act
http://ipl.unm.edu/cwl/fedbook/esa.html
The entire document online.
Environmental
Impact Analysis Data Links
http://water.usgs.gov/eap/env_data.html
Source for online environmental datasets.
Major
Environmental Laws (EPA)
http://search.cometsystems.com/search
Comet's search engine for sites.
Environmental Media Services
http://www.ems.org/
Nonprofit organization provides journalists with the most current
information on environmental topics; includes categories for chemicals
& health, climate & air, international trade & development,
land & transportation, oceans & water, plants & animals.
Environmental Quality
http://www.epa.gov/ceis/
The EPA hosts this site as a "single, convenient source of information
on environmental quality, status and trends." Through the maps,
tables, graphs and reports available here you can find environmental
information at the national, state and local levels.
EPA
Sector Notebook Reports
http://www.epa.gov/compliancehtml
Environmental profiles of several major industries, using key indicators
which present air, water and land pollutant release data.
Inchem
http://www.inchem.org/
From the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS); consolidates
information produced by international bodies on the sound management
of chemicals, including documents on chemical safety from organizations
worldwide; exposure limits by country, pesticide data sheets, health
and safety guides, and physical-chemical data.
Massachusetts Audubon Society
http://www.massaudubon.org/
Keep up with what's happening with birds and sanctuaries throughout
Massachusetts. You can read about recent bird sightings around the
state, find a sanctuary to visit or see what worldwide trips are
being organized.
Massachusetts Department
of Environmental Protection
http://www.mass.gov/dep/dephome.htm
Excellent site to begin a search of what is happening in Massachusetts.
Find spotlights on many topics including brownfields and perchlorate,
publications, resources and contact information here.
Massachusetts
Endangered Species Act
http://www.animallaw.info/statutes/stusmast131A_1.htm
Massachusetts Executive Office
of Environmental Affairs
http://www.mass.gov/envir/
Official site of the State Government.
The Massachusetts
Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/heritage.htm
Homepage of Massachusetts Natural Heritage. "The Natural Heritage
& Endangered Species Program (NHESP), part of the Massachusetts
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, is one of the programs forming
the Natural Heritage network"
Massachussets
Natural Heritage - Database and GIS
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/nhesp.htm
"The Geographic Information Systems section of the Natural
Heritage Program deals with the capture, analysis, and display of
rare species, natural community, and habitat information. With two
full-time staff persons, this section collaborates closely on projects
with the DFWELE GIS Program. The GIS section also cooperates closely
with MassGIS. The Program relies on MassGIS for the use of Arc/Info
in addition to the use of important statewide data layers such as
soils, roads, and land use"
National Environmental
Policy Act
http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/nepanet.htm
The NEPA Document online with State and additional Federal information
included.
National Environmental Publications
Information
http://nepis.epa.gov/
Over 7000 EPA documents with full-text online.
National Library for the
Environment
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/
"A free, non-advocacy online environmental information service
managed by the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment
(CNIE), a non-profit organization. CNIE's mission is to improve
the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental issues
through the successful operation of a National Institute for the
Environment (NIE). The service provides daily news coverage on environmental
issues; access to congressional reports and briefing books, laws
and treaties, educational resources; information about jobs &
careers, meetings; over 300 links to journals (some full text),
virtual topic libraries, reference materials; and much more."
National
Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/prot_res.html
Information on programs and national policy direction and guidance
on the conservation of those marine mammals and endangered species,
and their habitats.
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
http://www.noaa.gov/
Includes three environmental data centers: National Oceanographic
Data Center (NODC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), along with a wealth of related
information.
Natural Resources Conservation
Service
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/
Policy info, including conservation provisions of the 1996 Farm
Bill. Online Legislative Summaries of Congressional activity affecting
resource policy added weekly and archived.
National Plants
Database
http://plants.usda.gov/home_page.html
Maintained by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Plants Database allows
searching by common or scientific plant name or by topic of interest.
You can look for plants that fall under categories such as threatened
or endangered, wetland indicator status, invasive and noxious or
culturally significant. Photos of many plants are also available.
National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/
The homepage of the nation's largest member-supported conservation
group features the latest wildlife news, information about the ongoing
work the organization is doing to protect wildlife, and information
on how to get involved.
NOAA Photo Library
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
Browse or search through over 10,000 photgraphs and images, from
all periods, covering space, weather, fisheries and fishing methods,
aquatic animals, ships, maps, tides and tidal charts, etc.
Pesticide
Information Profiles
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/ghindex.html
From Extension Toxicology Network, this site provides an overview
of more than one-hundred commonly used insecticides, fungicides,
and herbicides and their toxic effects and expected actions in the
environment. This site is out of Cornell University.
Renewable Resource Data Center
(RReDC)
http://rredc.nrel.gov/
Supported by the National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) and managed
by the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; contains
renewable resource publications, data, maps, dictionary, and news.
United Nations Environment Program
http://www.unep.org/
Information on UN and UNEP conventions and programs.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/
This site is intended for users of all levels, with sections for
kids, educators, concerned citizens, scientists and researchers.
Areas of exploration include news, publications, laws and regulations,
and projects and programs. There is even a zip code search that
allows access to environmental information about a specific geographic
area of interest.
U. S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/
The science agency for the Department of the Interior, USGS is an
independent fact-finding agency that collects, monitors, analyzes,
and provides scientific understanding about natural resource conditions,
issues, and problems.
Environmental History
American
Environmental Photograph
Photographs taken between 1891-1936. This site is from the University
of Chicago Library (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Conservation
and the Environment: Map Collections ****
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cnsvhome.html
"The historic and more recent maps contained in this category
show early exploration and subsequent land use in various areas
of the United States. These maps show the changes in the landscape,
including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness
areas, geology, topography, wetland area, vegetation, and wildlife.
Specific conservation projects such as the growth and development
of U.S. National Parks are included in this category. " This
excellent site is part of the Library of Congress Memory Project.
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Environmental
History on the Internet
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/eh-internet.html#intro
This University of California at Berkeley site provides a page of
links to resources including Environmental History, bibliographies,
sample course syllabi and organizations and societies.
Environmental History
in Latin America
http://www.stanford.edu/group/LAEH/
This Stanford University site provides useful bibliographies for
materials on the environmental history of Latin America, divided
by region. Many of the texts, though, are in Spanish. This site
is being actively developed.
Environmental
History Timeline
http://www.radford.edu/%7Ewkovarik/envhist/index.html
Click on the timeline to read articles on events from a particular
period.
Evolution
of the Conservation Movement - 1850 - 1920 *****
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
"The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 documents
the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement
to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books,
pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs,
and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library
of Congress." ****Excellent
site.
John Muir Global
Network
http://www.johnmuir.org/
This website provides information on the life and work of John Muir.
It also offers links to other sites about Muir.
John Muir
Exhibit
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/
This online exhibit created by the Sierra Club
Northeast
- Environmental History Bibliography
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm.html
Useful bibliography of resources. Remember, many of these can be
gotten through Interlibrary Loan.
NOAA Photo Library
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
Browse or search through over 10,000 photgraphs and images, from
all periods, covering space, weather, fisheries and fishing methods,
aquatic animals, ships, maps, tides and tidal charts, etc.
Pennsylvania's
Wildlife Conservation History (Pennsylvania Game Commission)
http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/PGC/history/
Listing of dates and events, such as the enactment of natural resources
laws (including hunting license fees and hunting regulations), species
re-introductions, etc.
Trends
in Human Environmental History in Central Massachusetts
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/northeas.html
A nine page paper presented at a conference.
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