| Alternative
Fuels Data Center
Alternative Fuels Data Center offers
information on using alternative fuels for powering vehicles. It
includes a database of commercially available alternative-fuel
vehicles.
Amazing
Environmental Organization Web Directory
This is the largest exclusively
environmental organization directory on the Web. It includes
topically-organized sites from over 100 countries. There
is also a search engine for digging deep into the layers of the
directory.
Distribution
of Forests
This site details the distribution
of forests throughout the world . It includes details on
the geography of the region, the forest cover, plantations, fires,
and trees outside of forests.
Earth
Trends
Earth Trends is an environmental
information portal that examines coastal and marine ecosystems,
water resources and freshwater ecosystems, climate and the atmosphere. Other
issues covered are population, health, human well-being, economics,
business and the environment, energy and resources, biodiversity
and protected areas, agriculture and food, forests, grasslands,
and environmental governance.
Environmental
News Network
The Environmental News
Network offers timely environmental news, chats, interactive quizzes,
daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio and video on the
condition of the earth's environment.
Grand
Challenges in Environmental Sciences
Grand Challenges in Environmental
Sciences is an online book that tries to identify and describe
eight important areas of environmental research for the next generation: biogeochemical
cycles; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; climate variability;
hydrologic forecasting; infectious disease; the environment; institutions
and resource use; land-use dynamics; and reinventing the use of
materials.
Household Products
"Household Products provides
information about ingredients in brand-name products such as household
cleaners, detergents, pesticides, auto products, personal care
products and much more."
National
Environmental Directory
"A directory of more
than 13,000 organizations in the United States concerned with environmental
issues and environmental education."
Natural
Resources Defense Council
The
Natural Resources Defense Council is a national organization
that strives to educate people
to the need to protect the environment. It contains sections
on clean air and energy, global warming, clean waters and oceans,
wildlife and fish, parks, forests and wildlands, toxic chemicals,
and nuclear weapons.
Planet
Ark
Planet Ark offers environmental
articles and photographs from around the world but mainly focusing
on Australia.
Wild
World
Wild World offers maps
that showcase the Earth's richest, rarest and most endangered areas
in "Global 200." It also displays maps and information
for all 857 land-based ecoregions on the planet in "Terrestrial
Ecoregions of the World."
Tox Town
"An introduction to toxic
chemicals and environemental health risks you might encounter in
every day life, in everyday places.
Toxics
Release Inventory
Toxics Release Inventory
allows you to search for information on the release of toxic chemicals
into the environment in a specific community. |