Lafayette College Library

Online magazine from Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Features news and analysis on environmental issues.

Daily news coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets via Environment & Energy Daily, Greenwire, Land Letter, and E&ENews PM.

Assesses more than 50 river basin and aquifer systems. Includes data, summary reports, maps, and press releases. Search by state, basin, or topic such as pesticides, ecology, and urbanization.

From the Data and Information Working Group, a collaboration of eight US agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy. Gateway site on global change includes data, programs, research reports and policy information.

Monthly mean temperature, precipitation, and other climatic data for weather stations from around the world dating back to 1948. From the National Climatic Data Center.

Site from Dickinson College covering the nuclear emergency at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Includes a collection of primary sources, such as utility industry reports and pamphlets, government documents, local newspaper articles, and interviews.

Toxicological profile information sheets are available for more than 250 hazardous substances found at National Priorities List (NPL) sites. Profiles are peer-reviewed and include health effects, chemical and physical information, regulations, a glossary, and references to key studies and other literature. Prepared by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a division of the CDC.

Looks at changes in land use and land cover in North America. From the USGS.

Full text of articles reviewing the scholarly literature for a variety of topics in the physical, biomedical, and social sciences.

Statistical data, country profiles, and maps on environmental topics including: water resources, forests, agriculture, food, climate, and energy. Drawn from sources published by international agencies and other organizations. Maintained by the World Resources Institute. Searchable.