Earth & Environmental Science: Internet Sources

Ecosystems includes many programs from USGS. Topics include Invasive Species, Fisheries, Wildlife, Marine, Freshwater, and Terrestrial Ecosystem Projects and much more.

Provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Access multilateral environmental treaty data.

Provides both historical and current Earth science data, information, and products from satellite, airborne, and surface-based instruments.

Topics include environmental research and policy. From Chemical & Engineering News.

OBIS is part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.

From the World Resources Institute. Data on climate , greenhouse gas emissions, and other climate-relevant indicators. Search multiple datasets and create visualizations.

Climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Retrieve information about hazardous waste, toxic and air releases, Superfund sites, and water discharge permits. Search by topic or location.

Access government datasets on climate, energy, biodiversity, and many other environmental science topics.

Provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.

Comprehensive energy production and consumption information for most countries.

Paleoclimatology data are derived from natural sources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, stalagmites, and ocean and lake sediments. These proxy climate data extend the weather and climate information archive by hundreds to millions of years. The data include geophysical or biological measurement time series and some reconstructed climate variables such as temperature and precipitation.

Global information system for coral reefs.

From the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center.
Many data sets that focus on human interactions in the environment.

Data cover forests, biodiversity, emissions, and pollution. Other indicators relevant to the environment are found under data pages for Agriculture & Rural Development, Energy & Mining, Infrastructure, and Urban Development.