ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Reference Sources
- Environmental Trends: from World Resources Institute
http://earthtrends.wri.org
Ecology and Biodiversity
- Biodiversity Heritage (Digital) Library: Digitized older books in natural history.
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ - Ecosystems Mission Area (formerly Biological Research Division) of the US Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/ecosystems/ - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: a major assessment
of the ability of the global ecosystem to support human activity.
http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx
Rivers and Wetlands
- Surf your watershed, at the EPA.
http://www.epa.gov/surf/
- Locate your Watershed on Surf your watershed
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm
- Locate your Watershed on Surf your watershed
- Minnesota Assoc. of Watershed Districts
http://www.mnwatershed.org/ - The River Network
http://www.rivernetwork.org/ - Waterlaws.com
A Minnesota Law firm that has online legal information regarding water issues.
http://www.waterlaws.com/ - (U.S.) National Wetlands Inventory from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/ - Navigational Information Connection from the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Rock Island District.
Including the Upper Mississippi River Navigational Charts
http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/NIC2/default.cfm - More Links to the U.S. Department of the Interior: Including USGS digital maps, and related sites.
Animals
- Insects
Entomology Index of Internet Resources. Iowa State.
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/ - Fish
FishBase: comprehensive database on fish species
http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm - Frogs (deformed)
Deformed Frogs in Minnesota
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/hot/frogs.html - Wolves
- International Wolf Center
http://www.wolf.org/ - Birds
Audubon Watchlist: a guide to American birds
http://birds.audubon.org/species-by-program/watchlist - The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota
http://www.raptor.cvm.umn.edu/ - Primates
Primate Info Net: comprehensive information about primatology. Maintained by UW Madison, it has both original content and a literature database.
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/index.html
Plants- Plants Database from the USDA
http://plants.usda.gov/
Population Growth- Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org - UN Population Information Network
http://www.un.org/popin
Climate Change- Arctic Portal
http://arcticportal.org/ - Skeptical Science: refuting misconceptions on climate change.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ - UN Climate Change Site:from the United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/climatechange/
- International Wolf Center