Category Archives: Websites

ECOLEX — a gateway to Environmental Law

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ECOLEX is operated by the FAO, IUCN and UNEP*. It declares that it provides the most comprehensive, global source of information on environmental law. At this time, the Court Decisions Database is under development, but sections on Treaties, National Legislation, and Literature are present. “Treaties” contains references to and information on multilateral legal instruments. “National Legislation” covers jurisdictions around the world and legislation from the state or provincial level. The “Literature” section is comprised of information on monographs, articles and grey literature.

  • United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture, The World Conservation Union, United Nations Environment Program

Encyclopedia of Earth

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The Encyclopedia of Earth is a refereed wiki of all things of, and about, the Earth.
It seeks to become the world’s largest and most authoritative electronic source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society.

The EoE is an Open Source project that uses a modified version of MediaWiki as its authoring platform. The EoE’s author wiki is restricted to individuals judged to be expert in their field by an editorial board, and articles are reviewed and approved by a subject specific editor prior to publication.

EOE topics range from “Atmospheric resources in Africa” to “Zagros Mountains forest steppe”, from “Acid rain” to “Zero-point energy”. There is a link to it from Princeton’s online catalog.

Earthscape Website — from Columbia University

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“Columbia earthscape is an integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Although it primarily serves undergraduates, it also functions as an online reference for graduate students, investigators, and professionals, as well as a core text and enrichment for high schools and continuing education.”

Earthscape deals with the global environment. It’s a very useful site directing researchers to conferences, seminars, books and journals; teachers to multidisciplinary, multimedia resources; students to study aids; and policy-makers to global, public online discussions.

Earth Action Center of the NRDC

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Having been directed to this Natural Resources Defense Council website from ActforChange.com, I’d like to pass the link along. Here you will find “Guides to greener living”: JOURNALS, COLUMNS & OVERVIEWS, ENERGY-SAVING TIPS, GUIDES TO CONSERVING RESOURCES, GUIDES TO PROTECTING YOUR FAMILIES’ HEALTH,
TRAVEL AND RECREATION INFO, as well as a links to a “legislative watch” and “guides to capitol hill” about communicating with Congress and the legislative process.

Environmental Science & Technology links via ACS

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The American Chemical Society through its journal, Environmental Science & Technology Online has collected links with — and without — descriptions for the following topics: Air, Bioaccumulative & Toxic Chemicals, Biotechnology, Career, Climate Change, Energy, Green Chemistry, Groundwater, Land & Forests, Policy, Remediation, Risk Assessment, Sustainable Development, Technology, and Water.

Saving the world’s natural wonders from climate change

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The World Wildlife Fund has issued this press release:

Saving the world’s natural wonders from climate change
“From the Amazon to the Himalayas, ten of the world’s greatest natural wonders face destruction if the climate continues to warm at the current rate, warns WWF.

Released ahead of the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Second Working Group Report, a WWF briefing — Saving the world’s natural wonders from climate change — reports on how the devastating impacts of global warming are damaging some of the world’s greatest natural wonders.

They include the: Amazon; Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs; Chihuahua Desert in Mexico and the US; hawksbill turtles in the Caribbean; Valdivian temperate rainforests in Chile; tigers and people in the Indian Sundarbans; Upper Yangtze River in China; wild salmon in the Bering Sea; melting glaciers in the Himalayas; and East African coastal forests.”

Environmental Health & Toxicology Portal

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The U.S. government, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Specialized Information Services more specifically, has set up an Environmental Health & Toxicology portal to web-based information about Chemicals and Drugs, Diseases and the Environment, Environmental Health, Occupational Safety and Health, Poisoning, Risk Asessment and Regulations, Toxicology and Pesticide Exposure.

Information geared to researchers and students may be specified…as well as the public or schools.

Science & Technology for Sustainability — STS at NAS

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The National Academy of Sciences has created a program, STS, Science & Technology for Sustainability, in the division of Policy and Global Affairs “to encourage the use of science and technology to achieve long term sustainable development.” Their various projects are linked and there are also links under the Sustainability Gateway:
Sustainability – The Issue
People and Their Communities
Life Support Systems-Air & Water
Life Support Systems – Food
Economy, Business & Industry
Natural Systems
Institutions and Indicators
Global Change

World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision

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World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision
In the next 43 years, world population is expected to increase by our total population statistic in 1950, 2.5 billion.

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Population Division provides this direct link to tables.

“The world population continues its path towards population ageing and is on track to surpass 9 billion persons by 2050, as revealed by the newly released 2006 Revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections.” (From the press release).