reference resources
| Compendium of Common Pesticide Names | Alan Wood. Arranged by ISO, CAS, and IUPAC assigned names, molecular formulae, etc. |
| Earth Trends | World Resources Institute. Information portal for ten different subject arears. Search on a subject, look at data tables, maps, country profiles, or see features. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Online Version. |
| Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment | ARIC, Manchester Metropolitan University. Information about acid raid, air quality, climate change, ozone, sustainable development, etc. |
| Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia | National Park Service. Current and historical information on 118 chemicals or mixtures. |
| Environmental History of Latin America | Stanford University. Annotated bibliography of English, Spanish, and Portuguese books, articles, videos, and Web sites. |
| Environmental Studies | Pacific Bell. Listing of websites dealing with ecology and the environment. |
| Environmental Sustainability Index | World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). A measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 122 countries. |
| Global System for Sustainable Development | MIT. >2,500 abstracted, indexed, and cross-referenced online resources on sustainable development. Search by text and three graphical browsers. Small number of full-text reports on scientific developments and/or policy deliberations. |
| Nature Serve | An online encyclopedia of life with information on over 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities. |
| Pesticide Database | Pesticide Action Network. Information about active ingredients in >5,400 pesticides. Search by product or chemical. Regulatory status, ecotoxicity, chemical identification, transformation products, and type of use are given. |
| US Environmental Protection Agency | EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts. This site will inform you about environmental issues and help you protect the environment. |
| World Conservation Monitoring Centre: Conservation Databases | Databases, maps, and statistics concerning species, protected areas, forests, marine habitats, biological diversity, etc. The Tree Conservation Database includes over 8000 tree species which are threatened with extinction at a global level. Species information is provided in the and includes the "IUCN red list category, information on distribution, uses, ecology, threats and conservation measures." Search by family, genus, species, country, red list category, or assessor. Species in Trade contains a list of forty species and a report on sustainable use of trees. |