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Directories & Search Engines

• Ecology WWW Page  (Brach)
  
  
• EE Link: Environmental Education on the Internet  (North American Association for Environmental Education
  
  
• EnviroLink  EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
  
  
• National Library for the Environment easy-to-use single-point entry to environmental information and data for the use of all participants in the environmental enterprise
  

Associations

• National Center for Environmental Health
  
  
• Sierra Club

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Terms of Environment: Environmental Dictionary
  (National Service Center for Environmental Publications)

News

• CorpWatch
  
  
• Environmental News Network  (Network for Change)
  
  
• Environment News Service
  
  
• Planet Ark  This site from Australia, "hosts over 17,000 pages of environmental news and information." Includes daily and archived news and photographs from Reuters World Environment News." The articles may be searched by keyword or browsed by topic.

Databases

• Chemical Industry Archives  (Environmental Working Group)
  
  
• Core List for an Environmental Reference Collection  (EPA)
  
  
• ELDIS Gateway
  
  
• Energy Citations Database  (U.S. Dept. of Energy)  contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
  
  
• EnviroFacts Data Warehouse (EPA) This website provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
  
  
• Environmental Mapping (HUD)
  
  
• Forest Service Database  (USDA)
  
  
• National Environmental Data Index  The (NEDI) offers "direct access to environmental data and information descriptions" by providing full-text searching across twelve government databases. Optionally, narrow searches to specific agencies, subjects, or formats (such as text or metadata). Be patient: very broad searches are slow to display results. Agencies include the US Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and NASA.
  
  
• SOSIG: Environmental Issues (Social Science Information Gateway)
  

Environment General Resources

• Global Warming Central  (Pace University)
  
  
• National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment (University of Washington)
  

Air

• AIRNOW  (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  
  
• Clean Air Canada
  
  
• EPA's Indoor Air Quality Page
  
  
• Online Air Quality (Dept. of Environmental Programs)
  
  
• State of the Air 2002  (American Lung Association)
  
  
• Washington Air Quality Program
  
  

Conservation

• Conservation Databases  (UNEP)
  
  
• Energy.gov  (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
  
  
• Energy Ideas Clearinghouse  (Washington State University)
  
  
• Energy Information Administration Home Page
  
  
• Home Energy Saver  (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  
  

Forests

• Forest Action Network
  
  
• Forest Conservation Portal
  
  
• Global Forest Watch (World Resources Institute)
  
  
• Rainforest Action Network
  
  
• Rainforest Foundation
  
  
• Rainforest Information Center
  
  
• Rainforest Links
  
  
• Rainforestweb.org
  
  

Hazardous Waste

• Agrochemical Environmental News  (Washington State University)
  
  
• ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  
  
• CIMAS: Division of Environmental Contaminants
  
  
• CLU-IN: Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information
  
  
• EPA Zip Code Search
  
  
• Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia  (National Park Service)
  
  
• EXTOXNET: THe EXtension TOXicology NETwork
  
  
• Hazmat Safety Homepage
  
  
• NIRS: Nuclear Information and Resources Service
  
  
• RCRIS Database  (EPA)
  
  
• SAGE Solvent Alternatives Guide  (Research Triangle Institute)
  
  
• Scorecard Home  (Environmental Defense)
  
  
• TOXNET
  
  
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Division of Environmental Contaminants - CIMAS
  
  

Water

• Assessing Water Online
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Desalination and Water Resources
  
  
• EPA Acid Rain Program
  
  
• Hydrology Web Homepage (Battelle Memorial Institute)
  
  
• Pesticides and Aquatic Animals  (Virginia Tech)
  
  
• Plankton Net
  
  
• Seattle PI Special Report: Our Troubled Sound
  
  
• STORET (Office of Water)
  
  
• U.S. Water News Online
  
  
• USGS Water Resources of the United States
  
  
• UWIN: Universities Water Information Network
  
  
• Water Chemistry Calculator (Tinseth)
  
  
• Water Measurement Manual  (U.S. Dept. of the Interior)
  
  
• WaterWiser (Water Efficiency Clearinghouse)
  
  
• Water World  (PennWell Corporation)
  
  
• World's Water  (Pacific Institute)