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Links Relating to the Environment

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SITES

• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - provides records of carbon dioxide and other gas concentrations and emissions; it also provides measurements of long-term climate trends, the vulnerability of coastal areas, and the effects of carbon dioxide on vegetation.
• Conservation International - promoting awareness and providing analysis about the world's most endangered biodiversity through scientific programs, local awareness campaigns, and economic initiatives.
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - data on crop productivity, forestry and agroforestry, water management, aquaculture, and livestock.
• Earth Charter - information and ideas to establish a sound ethical foundation for the emerging global society and to help build a sustainable world based on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace.
• EarthLight - the Internet magazine to read if you are concerned about the fate of the planet, and have a sense that, at its root, this is a profoundly spiritual issue
• EarthTrends - the World Resource Institute's new online source for timely, accurate, and relevant environmental and sustainable development information.
• Ecological Society of America - resources for the public, scientists, and policymakers on science, biotechnology, natural resource management, ecological restoration, ozone depletion and global climate changes.
• Ecosystem Management Links - this University of Michigan School of Natural Resources web site includes a wealth of links to information on ecosystem management, research, and projects, and to professional societies, NGOs and government agencies.
• Environmental Defense Scorecard - maps and information about pollution sources. Search for information about your community.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO collects, analyses, interprets anddisseminates information relating to nutrition, food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
• Global Water Partnership Forum - providing links to various databases, libraries and websites; it also encourages consistent and collaborative management of water at global, regional and local levels.
• GreenMoney OnLine - promotes awareness of socially and environmentally responsible business, investing and consumer resources. Their goal is to educate and empower individuals and businesses to make informed financial decisions through aligning their corporate and financial principles.
• Information Highway to the Global Environment - directory of organizations and institutes active in environmental monitoring.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - scientific, technical and socio-economic information about the risk of human-induced climate change.
• NASA's Global Change Master Directory - provides access to data from a variety of sources and links to the original source; topics include earth science, biology, agriculture, water quality, and land use.
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - information and data from the US government agency responsible for U.S. weather and climate forecasting, monitoring and archiving of ocean and atmospheric data, management of marine fisheries and mammals, mapping and charting of all U.S. waters, and coastal zone management.
• National Parks Conservation Organization
• Oneworld.net - web portal for human rights and sustainable development. Environmental news, reports, perspectives, information on campaigns and volunteer opportunities.
• Population Reference Bureau - information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.
• Sierra Club - America's most influential environmental organization.
• Sustainable Communities Network - linking people to resources and one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities.
• United Nations Development Programme - information and analysis from the UN's principal provider of development advice, advocacy and grant support. Publishes annual Human Development Report
• UNEP.net - authoritative environmental information from a broad range of information and data providers committed to making their information freely available to the whole spectrum of users of environmental information.
• United States Environmental Protection Agency - provides information on environmental issues from air to waste. Has a special "EPA Explorers" page with information and activities for kids.
• Volunteer Opportunities Worldwide - directory of global volunteer opportunities. Environment is an area of focus.
• What You Can Do to Protect Ecosystems - Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on the Edge
• World Bank Environment Program - research and data on poverty alleviation and sustainable development; a focus on finding ways to ensure that economic growth does not come at the expense of the world's physical and ecological systems.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre - provides printed and electronic information covering key aspects of biodiversity conservation and key biodiversity links worldwide.
• World Conservation Union - has a bookstore providing information on over 2000 titles spanning more than 50 years. Bibliographic data on all publications published by the World Conservation Union and with other organizations or publishers.
• World Conservation Union/The 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - provides data on the risk of extinction for taxa that have been evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories.
• World Health Organization - a clearinghouse for health issues worldwide and information.
• World Wildlife Fund - leading privately supported international conservation organization in the world providing information on endangered species, endangered places, forests, climate change, oceans and toxic chemicals.

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS SOURCES

• Environmental News Network - working to educate the world about environmental issues facing our Earth.
• Reuters 'World Environment News' from Planet Ark
• Grist Magazine - daily environmental news providing gloom and doom with a sense of humor.
• Environment News Service (ENS)
• E Magazine - independent newsstand-quality publication on environmental issues.
• IISD Linkages - electronic clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and development policy.
• Pesticide Action Network Updates Service
• UN WIRE - an independent news briefing about the United Nations.
• EarthNet News - a project of the Center for Environmental Citizenship.
• World Environmental Journalists E-Group

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