Water and Earth

Agricultural Network Information Center (AgNIC)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center) is a distributed network that provides access to agriculture-related information, subject area experts, and other resources. It was established by an alliance of the National Agricultural Library, land-grant universities, and other organizations committed to facilitating public access to agricultural and related information.
http://www.agnic.org/

Andean Botanical Information System, The (ABIS)
An effort to provide information from the floristic and systematic investigations of the phanerogams (flowering plants) of Andean South America. ABIS presents research on selected geographic regions or groups of Andean plants, including the flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories of montane forests of northern Peru, and monographic treatments with online images. Includes links to El Nino information.
http://www.sacha.org/

Arctic Circle Natural Resources
Covers themes crucial to the future of the people, land, and waters of the Arctic and Subarctic region: natural resources, history and culture; social equity and environmental justice.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/arcticcircle/NatResources/

Arctic Environmental Atlas
United Nations Environment Programme/GRID-Arendal
An interactive map presenting environmental information on the Arctic region. This map includes everything north of 50° north of the equator. Its themes concentrate on issues of biodiversity and conservation, and include Topography, Land Cover, Permafrost, Population Density, Human Impact & Wilderness. Featured are Protected areas, Ramsar areas, Glaciers Polar ice, Pack ice, Lakes, Rivers, Drainage Basins, and WWF Global 200 ecoregions. Also covered are ecological footprint, land-based pollution, and climate change. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) maintains and updates the Protected area and Ramsar area databases. In English.
http://maps.grida.no/arctic

Association for the Environmental Health of Soils (AEHS), The
AEHS facilitates communication and foster cooperation among professionals concerned with the challenge of soil protection and cleanup.
http://www.aehs.com/

Atlas of America's Polluted Waters
Total Maximum Daily Load Program
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
A report from EPA that includes maps showing waters within each state that do not meet state water quality standards. States listed these waters in their most recent submission to EPA, generally, in 1998, as required by section 303(d) of the U.S. Federal Clean Water Act. This provision of the Clean Water Act requires a "total maximum daily load" or TMDL for each listed water. A key feature of the 1998 lists of polluted waters is that, for the first time, all states provided computer-based "geo-referencing" data that allow consistent mapping of these polluted waters. The maps are color coded to indicate the type of pollutant causing the pollution problem. And, bar charts show the types of pollutants impairing stream/river/coastal miles, and lakes/estuary/wetland acres. With downloadable pdf files.
http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/atlas/index.html

Baltic Marine Environment Information System
GIS user interface for network-based Baltic Marine Environment Information System. Bibliographic material on the Baltic Sea has been collected since 1975 within the framework of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM). Presently, the database covers material since 1970 and is available online in Germany and Finland.
http://www.baltic.vtt.fi/

BEACH Watch
Office of Water / Office of Science and Technology
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
On BEACH Watch you can see if the water at a specific beach is being monitored, who is responsible for the monitoring, the pollutants that are being monitored, and if advisories or closures have been issued at U.S. coastal and many inland beaches. U.S. EPA intends to conduct this survey each year. The results of its 1999 annual beach survey, reflecting swimming conditions at 1,891 beaches, showed over a quarter (459) of the reported beaches were affected by at least one advisory or closure, most due to elevated bacteria levels, primarily from sewage or storm water overflows. The site has interactive digital maps of U.S. Beaches; EPA Beach Reports and Technical References; and links to other Federal, State and Local Water Quality Protection Programs.
http://www.epa.gov/ost/beaches/

Berlin Environmental Information System (UIS)
Digital Environmental Atlas Berlin
Ministry of Urban Development, Environmental Protection and Technology
This interactive site employs data from the following areas as thematic focal points in the UIS: Soil, Water, Air, Climate, Biotopes, Land Use, and Traffic/Noise. Also includes the. In German and English.
http://www.sensut.berlin.de/sensut/umwelt/uisonline/
http://www.sensut.berlin.de/SenSUT/umwelt/uisonline/index_e.html

Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Non-point Sources (BASINS)
Office of Water/Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
BASINS integrates a geographic information system (GIS), national watershed data, and state-of-the-art environmental assessment and modeling tools. BASINS 2.0 software, a published BASINS User's Manual and the CDROMs of the system files with the GIS Data by EPA Regions are available.
http://www.epa.gov/OST/BASINS/

Brownfields
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Contains indexed information on Brownfield redevelopments and related land recycling issues. Also a link to the Landview III mapping program.
http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/index.html#info

California Center for Land Recycling (CCLR), The
CCLR is focused on creating sustainable communities by encouraging and facilitating land recycling to revitalize urban areas, discourage urban sprawl, and conserve greenspace. CCLR focuses on sites that are idle, abandoned, underutilized, or contaminated (or perceived to be contaminated), known as 'brownfields". Redeveloping urban brownfields improves living conditions for city dwellers that are at a disadvantage because of economic and racial segregation. CCLR objectively explores and advocates collaborative partnerships among private sector, public sector, and nonprofit organizations.
http://www.cclr.org

California Data Exchange Center
California Department of Water Resources
Access Point to Operational Hydrologic Data.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/

California Riparian Evaluation System (CARES)
Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis
CARES is a multi-layered GIS used to identify priorities for riparian conservation and restoration.
http://ice.ucdavis.edu/

California Watershed Information Technical System (WITS)
California Resources Agency
The Watershed Information Technical System (WITS) provides the information and tools to support local watershed planning, restoration, monitoring, and education.
http://ceres.ca.gov/watershed/

Center for Environmental Public Advocacy, (near) Banska Bystica, Slovakia.
The Center's objectives include environmental protection and the development of spiritual values, as well as support for those activities of citizens, movements and non-governmental organizations. The site contains information about water policies in Slovakia under the recently ousted government.
http://www.changenet.sk/CEPA/index-e.htm

Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Columbia University
Land and Water Knowledge Management Node (LW-KMN)
LW-KMN is being developed as a specialized, "one-stop shopping," electronic information library to promote more efficient and sustainable management of land and water resources in developing countries and the world. The objective of the project is to identify and organize those information resources most useful to resolve land and water management issues of global and national importance. The information library is organized on the basis of institutional and special purpose electronic information catalogs, issues (hot topics) to be resolved, indicators and procedures, and information resources.
http://bordeaux.uwaterloo.ca/info/sites.htmlAdogis

Center for Marine Conservation (CMS), The
The Center for Marine Conservation is the largest U.S. nonprofit organization committed solely to protecting ocean environments and conserving the global abundance and diversity of marine life through science-based advocacy, research, and public education, as well as informed citizen participation. CMC and the U.S. EPA's Oceans & Coastal Protection Division jointly offer two-day Volunteer Estuary Monitoring and operate the National Marine Debris Monitoring Program (NMDMP). This program has been designed to scientifically determine whether marine debris is increasing or decreasing along U.S. coastlines and identify the major sources of the debris. With Library and Resources, including a Map Room containing maps of Federally Protected Marine Sanctuary, Areas and Reserves. In English.
http://www.cmc-ocean.org

Center for Subsurface Modeling Support
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A source for publicly available ground-water and vadose zone modeling software and services. Includes On-line Model Information Database developed in cooperation with the International Ground Water Modeling Center (IGWMC).
http://www.epa.gov/ada/csmos.html

CITIES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
CITES Secretariat (Switzerland)
Known as CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora has a membership of 150 countries. These countries act by banning commercial international trade in an agreed list of endangered species and by regulating and monitoring trade in others that might become endangered. The Checklist of CITES Species and the Annotated CITES Appendices are produced from databases maintained by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, this information is available here in an interactive format. This information resource is a result of collaboration between the CITES Secretariat, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (UK), the European Commission and WCMC. The Database may be queried for all CITES-listed Fauna, or by Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Species, or Common Name. In English, French and Spanish.
http://www.wcmc.org.uk:80/CITES/

Clean Water Action (USA)
Clean Water Action is a national citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups, coalitions and campaigns to protect the environment, health, economic well-being and community quality cf life. Features Energy Action Center, information on current campaigns (Arsentic, Water Clean-up Programs), downloadable newsletters, and contacts. In English.
http://cleanwateraction.org

Coalicion para la Defensa de la Laguna de San Ignacio
International coalition seeking protection of a fundamental reserve for whales, especially the California gray whale. In Spanish. The UN-sponsored report appears in English on the savebajawhales.com site.
http://www.csi.org.mx/
http://www.savebajawhales.com/

Coalition Clean Baltic (Sweden)
Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) is a politically independent, non-profit association that unites 27 member organizations from Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The main goal of CCB is to promote the protection and improvement of the Baltic Sea environment and natural resources. CCB participates as a joint lobby organization for the member organizations towards intergovern-mental Baltic Sea organizations such as the HELCOM (Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission) and the International Baltic Sea Fisheries Commission (IBSFC), the BALTIC 21-process as well as towards the European Union. CCB as an organization has decided to focus on three priority areas:
  1. Reduction of the harmful nutrient load to the Baltic Sea,
  2. Preventions of installations and activities harmful to the Baltic Sea Environment, and
  3. Development of sustainable Baltic Sea Fisheries.
Includes map of Baltic Sea Region Hot Spots. In English.
http://www.ccb.se

Digital Tectonic Activity Map
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
The Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM) is a new visualization tool for both researcher and educator alike to better understand tectonic activity of our planet for the past 1 million years. DTAM is a Geographical Information System (GIS) that displays a realistic synoptic view of present global tectonism by filling in the cartographic gap between conventional geological maps and plate reconstruction maps. The DTAM was created using current global datasets of seismicity, volcanism, and plate motions that were integrated with topography and bathymetry measurements derived from satellite gravity data. Macroscopic structural features were integrated via field studies from various researchers, space geodesy, and space-borne imagery (e.g. astronaut photography, Landsat). This integrative technique provides a new and unique visualization tool that presents an actual representational view of global tectonics rather than the traditional schematic illustrations (i.e. plate maps) of the past. In English.
http://core2.gsfc.nasa.gov/dtam/

Drinking Water and Environmental Management, Division of
California Department of Health
The Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management promotes a physical, chemical, and biological environment which contributes to health and prevents illness. Their mission is to assure protection of the public through the regulation and monitoring of public water systems, wastewater reclamation projects, disposal of low level radioactive waste, shellfish production and harvesting operations, and medical waste generators. This sites includes details on California's Beaches and Recreational Waters, Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water, Drinking Water Program, Drinking Water Source Assessment and Protection, Program Electronic Data Transfer, Environmental Management, Low Level Radioactive Waste, Sanitation Radiation Laboratories and the State Revolving Fund.
http://www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/ps/ddwem/index.htm

EarthCulture
A nonprofit organization promoting a sustainable Earth and working for livable cities, diverse wilderness areas, and the rights of all life through education and nonviolent direct action. Access to photo links gallery.
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3294/

Earth Observatory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), The U.S.
Earth Observatory provides a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. Materials published on the Earth Observatory are freely available for re-publication or re-use, except where copyright is indicated. The site includes images and data on Biosphere, Chlorophyll, Cloud Fraction, 1km (sq.) Fires, 4km (sq.) Fires, Land Cover Classification, Outgoing Heat Radiation, Vegetation, Ozone, Rainfall, Sea Surface Temperature, Incoming Solar Radiation, and Surface Temperature. An 'Experiments' section allows students to operate in a virtual Laboratory, where they can learn how and why the Earth changes through the use of interactive computer models and the art and science of space-based remote sensing. Experiments include oil spill, earthquake, and hurricane activities, and the effects of siting an oil refinery in a coastal harbor.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Earthquakes
Lists and Maps of Recent Earthquakes
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Earthquake Information from the Seismotectonics and Geophysics Group http://www.seismo.usbr.gov/seismo/eqdata.html

Earthwatch
United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch
United Nations Environment Programme
The mission of Earthwatch is to coordinate, harmonize and integrate observing, assessment and reporting activities across the UN system in order to provide environmental and appropriate socio-economic information for national and international decision-making on sustainable development and for early warning of emerging problems requiring international action. Includes links to sources of near-real-time information on the state of the planetary environment, including Atmospheric Aerosols, Fires, Oceans, and Coral Reefs. In English.
http://www.unep.ch/earthw/introd.htm
http://www.unep.ch/earthw.html

Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A database used to store information on notifications of oil discharges and hazardous substances releases. Information about ERNS, links to ERNS database, including instructions, quick facts and customized searches.
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/erns/epa.html

Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
This tool provides the public with compliance, permit, and demographic data from approximately 800,000 facilities regulated under the Clean Air Act stationary source program, the Clean Water Act direct discharge program and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste facilities with violations. Integrated reports present inspections, violations, enforcement actions, penalties, and locate facilities on demographic maps. In English.
http://www.epa.gov/echo/index.html

Fish and Wildlife Consumption Advisories (USA and Canada), Listing of
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
Online listing of Fish and Wildlife Advisories (LFWA) database. This database includes all available information describing state-, tribal-, and federally-issued fish consumption advisories in the United States for the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. Territories, and in Canada for the 12 provinces and territories.
http://fish.rti.org/

GeoTracker
State Water Resources Control Board, State of California
Pilot system for tracking groundwater contamination from fuel leaks and their proximity to drinking water wells. Includes internactive GIS map feature; information about MTBE.
http://geotracker.llnl.gov

Global Change (electronic edition)
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security (Oakland, California)
Global Change seeks to familiarize the public with the issues associated with climate change and ozone depletion. Global Change has been published since July 1996 as a public service by the Pacific Institute, an independent, non-profit center created in 1987 to do research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security. Underlying all of the Institute's work is the recognition that the pressing problems of environmental degradation, regional and global poverty, and political tension and conflict are fundamentally interrelated, and that long-term solutions must consider these issues in an interdisciplinary manner. The Pacific Institute's program areas are 'Economic Globalization and the Environment'; 'Global Change', 'Environment & Security'; 'Community Strategies for Sustainability and Justice'; and 'Water and Sustainability'. The Global Change site has an extensive set of links to governmental, NGO, and scientific climate change sites.
http://www.globalchange.org/gcintro.htm
http://www.pacinst.org/

Global Fire Monitoring Center
Fire Ecology Research Group
Freiburg University, Germany
The Global Fire Monitoring Centre provides access to near-real-time reports on the status of forest and wildfires around the world. Includes Global Fire Inventories and Models, Fire Literature, Databanks and extensive links. In English.
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/fireglobe/

Global Observing System Information Center (GOSIC), The
University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The Global Observing System Information Center (GOSIC) provides information on the observing requirements, the operational data systems, and the access procedures for finding and obtaining data and products of the G3OS. The G3OS consists of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS). In English.
http://www.gos.udel.edu/

Global Oceans Observing System (GOOS), The
International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO,
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme
GOOS is a permanent global system for observations, modelling and analysis of marine and ocean variables to support operational ocean services worldwide. GOOS provides accurate descriptions of the present state of the oceans, including living resources; continuous forecasts of the future conditions of the sea for as far ahead as possible; and the basis for forecasts of climate change. Includes Research Programmes, GOOS Products and Services Bulletin. In English.
http://ioc.unesco.org/goos/

Global Phenological Monitoring (GPM)
An initiative of the Phenological Study Group of the International Society of Biometeorology (ISB). Contains monitoring data and interactive tools. GPM cooperates and shares links with the Global Plantwatch Program an the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) program.
http://www.student.wau.nl/~arnold/gpmn.html

Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS), The
The central mission of GTOS is to provide data for detecting, quantifying, locating and giving early warning of changes in the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems to sustain development and improvements in human welfare. GTOS will help find answers to five key questions:
  1. What are the impacts of land use change and degradation on sustainable development? Can the land produce enough food for the world's future population?
  2. Where, when and by how much will demand for freshwater exceed supply?
  3. Where and when will toxic pollutants cause major threats to human and environmental health and the capacity of ecosystems to detoxify them?
  4. Where and what type of biological resources are being lost, and will these losses irreversibly damage ecosystems or human progress?
  5. What are the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems?
GTOS will be a permanent observing system for the world's key managed and natural ecosystems. The system is based on a five-tier data sampling strategy involving large-scale studies of the Earth's major environmental gradients, agricultural and ecological research centres, field stations and a gridded series of some 10,000 sampling sites. In English, French and Spanish.
http://www.fao.org/gtos/

Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law
This Guide is designed to be the largest collection of information on international fisheries law and related subjects on the web. It includes a Compendium of Legal Texts - a collection of treaties, conventions and agreements concerning international fisheries, marine mammals and related subjects, and a selection of non-binding instruments, national legislation with international implications, and archive of agreements which have expired or been replaced by newer versions.; a selection of fisheries related Cases at the international level, including the principal cases from the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, a Directory of the major international fisheries organizations and commissions, Glossary, On-line papers, and Mailing lists. In English.
http://www.oceanlaw.net

Irrigation- WWW Virtual Library
Department of Rural Engineering and Natural Resource Protection
Designed to facilitate the information retrieval in the field of irrigation.
http://www.wiz.uni-kassel.de/kww/irrig_i.html

METINFO
Finnish Forest Research Institute
On-Line Information System of the Forest Sector. The information system includes four databases on the Web Site mainly intended for domestic [Finnish] users, and the applications are implemented in Finnish only. The Statistical database comprises information on topics regularly published in the Forest Statistical Bulletins. The system also includes a PDF-format version of the Statistical Yearbook of Forestry. The Legislation database includes the major part of laws and other regulations in forest and environment domains. This database contains approximately 1700 documents. The Enterprise directory features four pilot areas (Pohjois-Karjala, Päijät-Häme, Uusimaa and Satakunta). The database includes contact, product and service information on about 1600 organizations and enterprises operating in the forest sector. In Finnish with some English.
http://www.metla.fi/metinfo/

MTBE and Drinking Water in Santa Clara County (California), Facts about
The fuel additive MTBE is a suspected carcinogen and reproductive toxin currently being phased out of California's gasoline. A Canadian manufacturer of MTBE has challenged the right of states in the USA to phase out and prohibit the sale of MTBE under provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, leading to a clash between 'free trade' and public health law.
http://http://www.valleywater.org/Water/Water_Quality/Protecting_your_water/MTBE.shtm

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service mission is to provide and ensure timely access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources to promote, protect, and enhance the Nation's economy, security, environment, and quality of life. OSDPD manages and directs the operation of the central ground facilities which ingest, process, and distribute environmental satellite data and derived products to domestic and foreign users. In English.
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov
http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov

National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Network
THE LTER NETWORK The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales. The network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems and among other related national and international research programs. The National Science Foundation established a program in 1980 to support research on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States. The network consists of 24 sites representing diverse ecosystems and research emphases and a Network Office, that coordinates communication, network publications, and research-planning activities. The mission of the LTER Network is to facilitate and conduct ecological research through:
  1. Understanding ecological phenomena over long temporal and large spatial scales,
  2. Creating a legacy of well-designed and documented long-term experiments and observations for future generations,
  3. Conducting major synthetic and theoretical efforts, and
  4. providing information for the identification and solution of ecological problems
The LTER Network is committed to long-term ecological research on the following core areas:
  1. Pattern and control of primary production
  2. Spatial and temporal distribution of populations selected to represent trophic structures
  3. Pattern and control of organic matter accumulation and decomposition in surface layers and sediments
  4. Patterns of inorganic inputs and movements of nutrients through soils, groundwater and surface waters
  5. Patterns and frequency of disturbances

http://lternet.edu

Office of Response and Restoration
National Ocean Service (USA)
Tools and information for emergency responders and planners, and others working to understand and mitigate the effects of oil and hazardous materials in coastal waters. The site includes: In English.
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/

Office of Response and Restoration/ Query Manager
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / National Ocean Service
Tools and information for emergency responders and planners, and others working to understand and mitigate the effects of oil and hazardous materials in U.S. waters and coastslines. Includes Query Manager, a database program, developed by NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration, that can be used to access sediment chemistry (surface and subsurface), sediment toxicity, and tissue chemistry data from the relational database for individual watersheds. The selected data can be immediately displayed on maps using MARPLOT and/or the output tables from the queries can be saved in a variety of formats for use with other mapping software (e.g., ArcView) or other applications (e.g., spreadsheets, statistics packages, word processors).
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/watershed/watershedtools.html

Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
The Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI) team produces high-resolution, detailed imagery of significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data available at the NOAA Science Center in Suitland, Maryland. OSE's Daily Operational Significant Event Imagery Report (DOSEIR) outlines the events captured in satellite imagery and provides a direct link to each image. The images are described with short narratives. Significant events include Dust Storms, Fire Events, Flood Events, Iceberg Events, Ocean Events, Severe Weather, Snow Cover, Storm Systems, Tropical Cyclones, Volcanoes, and Unique Imagery. In English.
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), The
OTS is a not-for-profit consortium of 58 universities and research institutions in the United States, Brazil, Costa Rica, Peru and Australia. OTS operates with the mission of providing leadership in education, research, and the responsible use of natural resources in the tropics, and to increase understanding of and slow the destruction of tropical forests. OTS maintains "Tropical Stations Online Datasets", including the National Bibliography in Tropical Biology; Arthropods of La Selva; La Selva, meteorological data from the Las Cruces and Palo Verde Research Stations, and research sets on lichens and fungi. In English and Spanish.
http://www.ots.ac.cr

Preventing Harm
Clean Water Fund (USA)
Preventing Harm features extensive information linking environmental toxins to developmental disabilities. Contains downloadable one page fact sheets developed for physicians and the public. Each fact sheet includes a Reproductive Outcomes and Routes of Exposure Table which includes information on nearly 50 chemicals/substances, their health effects and where the chemicals are used/found. With media kit, action alerts and extensive contacts. In English.
http://www.preventingharm.org

Rainforest Information Centre
A volunteer, non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting rainforests, the womb of life and home to over half he Earth's species. Features maps of rainforests in Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Ecuador, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Venezuela.
http://forests.org/ric/

RosiaMontana.org
Alburnus Maior, a Romanian NGO headquartered in Rosia Montana, Romania, tracks gold mining, toxic risk, and population displacement in their region. In Romana, English and Magyar.
http://www.rosiamontana.org/

Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership (SVEP)
Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership promotes environmentally sound business and community practices through collaboration and education. Publishers of the "Silicon Valley 2003 Environmental Index," the Partnership promotes sustainability indicators as a method of enhancing regional environmental performance. The Silicon Valley Environmental Index summarizes high-level trend information in 19 areas, including resource use, population, air and water quality, species and habitats, and hazardous materials, in Silicon Valley, California. Includes a "How To" Manual for communities developing their own sustainability index, Electronics Recycling Map and Directory. In English.
http://www.svep.org

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP), The
SCCWRP is a joint powers agency focusing on marine environmental research. An important part of SCCWRP's mission is to ensure that the data collected and synthesized effectively reaches decision-makers, scientists and the public. CCWRP has conducted five major reference surveys since 1977: reference surveys in 1977, 1985 and 1990, the 1994 pilot project survey, and the Bight 1998 Survey:; Shoreline Microbiology Survey (Winter 1999) Bight 1998 Survey Shoreline Microbiology Survey (Summer 1998). The data include metadata, infuanal abundance, infaunal biomass, and station data.
http://www.sccwrp.org

Stockholm Environmental Water Institute (SIWI)
An umbrella organization for global water-related scientific activities initiated in Stockholm.
http://www.siwi.org/menu/menu.html

STORET: STOrage and RETrieval System for Water and Biological Monitoring Data
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
A repository for water quality, biological, and physical data and is used by state environmental agencies, EPA and other federal agencies, universities, private citizens, and many others.
http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/STORET/

Taiwan Environmental Action Network (TEAN)
TEAN strives to increase Taiwan's involvement in international efforts on diverse environmental issues. TEAN collects first-hand information to assist the Taiwanese society in moving toward sustainable development. Among its programs, TEAN supports Basel Action Network's campaign to curtail Formosa Plastic's export of mercury waste from Cambodia to California, and the Radiation Safety and Protection Association Taiwan, the Radiation Victims' Association Taiwan, Medical Professional Alliance in Taiwan, Taiwan Environmental Protection Union and other environmental groups, aiming to solve nuclear nightmare in Taiwan. With information on Animal Rights, Anti - Nuclear / Nuclear Wastes / Radioactively Contaminated Buildings, Climate Change / Energy, Endangered species, Forestry, High-tech Expansion, Indigenous Communities and Biodiversity, Ocean / Coastal Wetlands, Transportation of Hazardous Waste, and Water / Dams. With news archive and articles. In English and Mandarin.
http://tean.formosa.org/

Union of Environmental Organizations of Macedonia (UEOM), The
UEOM was established to unify the ideas, people and problem solving capabilities of environmental organizations in Macedonia. UEOM is comprised of 46 local member NGOs (as of July 2000); a number of government ministries, civic associations and individual experts are associates working within the UEOM framework. The site contains information about the Project 'Development of the Rural Areas and Sustainable Organic Farming'; contact information. In English.
http://nav.to/ueom

U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Contains flood, storm and fire preparedness and damage prevention, and mitigation information. Includes popular "FEMA for Kids", Winter Storm Watch, Maps.
http://www.fema.gov/fema/sanitatf.html

Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Water Management Research Laboratory
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
http://pwa.ars.usda.gov/fno/wmrl/library.html

Water Radioactivity Software Development Project
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Access to programs designed to assist in making technically difficult calculations with a user interface to simplify technical details and offer protection against mathematical errors.
http://www.epa.gov/region01/eco/wrsdp.html

Waterscape International Group (USA)
Waterscape International Group, a California public benefit corporation, develops strategies for managing environmental problems, in particular those relating to water resources. Areas of interest include: 1) surface water and groundwater management, 2) salinity and agriculture, 3) public health and the environment, 4) citizen environmental monitoring and education, and 5) technology training for environmental protection. They specialise in GIS research on environment, agriculture, and public health in Lithuania and California. Waterscape's goals are: 1) to engage in international research and projects in these areas, and 2) to provide limited technical expertise to governments and organizations to initiate and carry-out projects and research in these areas. The site features: Environmental News, Program information, and an extensive list of tools and data for those interested in GIS or modeling of natural systems. In English.
http://www.waterscape.org/

WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water - Water Quality
World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO released updated guidelines for drinking water quality in September 2004. The guidelines recommend a holistic, systematic approach towards water quality regulation and management in order to prevent water-related disease, including preventative measures, such as ensuring that local wells are not at risk from contamination. The new guidelines reflect reviewed and revised recommended values for chemical limits, and set out practical approaches to discount some chemicals and prioritize others. The updated guidelines also include applications for emergencies and disaster situations.
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwg/guidelines/en/

World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
The WCMC provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own. WCMC programmes concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine and freshwaters; plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar regions. WCMC also addresses the relationship between trade and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment. WCMC maintains a large and varied collection of databases concerning nature conservation, developed in collaboration with a range of partners. Conservation databases include: http://www.wcmc.org.uk/
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/cis/