Current Subject: Environment & Natural Resources

BiologyBrowse - Produced by BIOSIS, the site provides free access to a database of approximately 25,000 evaluated Web links describing the natural world. Subject categories include botany, genetics, human medicine, biotechnology and the environment. Includes free access to some BIOSIS products, such as the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology, the Zoological Record Thesaurus, and more.

DOE Data Explorer (DDE) - Use to find scientific research data, such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images, generated in the course of DOE (Department of Energy)-sponsored research in various science disciplines. It includes a database of citations based on the information found at data-hosting Web sites. It is intended to be particularly useful to students, the public, and to researchers who are new to a field or looking for experimental or observational data outside their normal field of expertise. You may browse or search the database, then link to a data collection where it resides.

Environmental Protection Agency - Mission: Protect human health & safeguard the natural environment.

EPA Science Inventory - The Environmental Protection Agency's searchable, agency-wide database of science activities and scientific & technical work products such as risk assessments, technical studies & guidance, and research in environmental science and human health. Users can conduct keyword searches or can search within nine science topics: aging initiative, contaminated sediments, ecological assessment tools, genomics, tribal science, children's health, cumulative risk, environmental justice and non-indigenous species. Database records provide such information as project descriptions (abstracts), contacts for additional information and electronic links to final reports and related research.

GLIN - Great Lakes Information Network - Data and information about the Great Lakes Region's environment, economy, tourism, education. Managed by the Great Lakes Commission, a nonpartisan, eight-state compact agency located in Ann Arbor, MI

Great Lakes Commission (GLC) - The web site of the Great Lakes Commission, a binational public agency dedicated to the use, management and protection of the water, land and other natural resources of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system. In partnership with the eight Great Lakes states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) and Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec, the Commission applies sustainable development principles in addressing issues of resource management, environmental protection, transportation and sustainable development.

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality - Programs to protect human health & the environment, & to preserve Michigan's natural heritage.

National Agricultural Library - Water Quality Information - Electronic access to information about water and agriculture.

National Agricultural Library Digital Repository (NALDR) - Provides access to the full text of selected USDA publications digitized by NAL. The text is fully searchable and image files are compressed for quick loading to the Web. Each publication in the repository has a corresponding record in the NAL Catalog and Article Citation Database (AGRICOLA), and the records include links to the full text.

NatureServe - NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems in all fifty U.S. states, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Online Vegetation & Plant Distribution Maps (UC Berkeley) - International listing of vegetation & plant distribution maps

United Nations Data Access System (UNdata) - Disseminates statistics by United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD, formerly United Nations Statistical Office), providing an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community. Includes a glossary.

Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United State - Aids in planning or assessing wind power by presenting maps of all areas of the United States, showing wind speeds, direction, variability, seasonal fluctuations, and elevations.

WINDandSEA: The Oceanic & Atmospheric Internet Locater - 1,000 selected links to science & policy sites organized by topic & alphabetically within topic.