LibGuides: Environmental Ethics: Web

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What do we recommend? These resources contain information on popular topics for environmental research.

Environmental Studies Websites

CDC - Environmental Health
Covers environmental health topics including air/water pollution, healthy places, and links to morbidity reports/statistics.
Convention on Biological Diversity
Includes information on all aspects of the Convention, Cartagena Protocol, Nagoya Protocol, and related programs. The CBD Secretariat maintains the site in its role of serving as an information clearinghouse and increasing "public education and awareness."
Environmental Literacy Council
Offers free lesson plans and evaluations of K-12 textbooks for scientific accuracy.
European Environment Agency
Contains information for casual readers as well as full text or abstracts from major reports.
Minnesota DNR - Ecological Services Division
Includes information on plants and animals, invasive species, Minnesota ecosystems, and more.
National Institute of Environmental Health Science
Provides facts about environment-related diseases and health risks, news and events, the National Toxicology Program, and much more.
NatureServe
Contains authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. NatureServe provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species as well as common plants and animals.
Red List
Provides the most up-do-date information about the status of threatened and endangered animals.
United Nations Environmental Programme
Highlights sites around the world undergoing dramatic environmental changes.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Science & Technology tab includes information on research programs, grants information, environmental databases, software download files, and technical documents.
The Institute for Bird Populations
What is the MAPS Program?
The MAPS program is a continent-wide collaborative effort among public agencies, non-governmental groups, and individuals to assist the conservation of birds and their habitats through standardized bird monitoring. --from website

Statistics

Statistics are often gathered by organizations or governmental entities and are freely available on their websites. Use sites like these to do targeted searches across these domains.

USA.gov
The U.S. government’s official search engine with about 50 million pages from federal, state, local, territorial and tribal websites.
United Nations Statistics Division: Environment
The Environment Statistics Section of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is engaged in the development of methodologies, data collection, technical cooperation, and coordination in the fields of environmental statistics and indicators.