Environment

• Colorado Environment A to Z This web site links to resources on environmental issues in Colorado.
• The Congressional Research Service (CRS) CU, the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to members of Congress. Search these CRS Reports CU through LexisNexis. Enter "air pollution", "environmental pollution and control", "environmental regulation", "hazardous substances", "hazardous waste disposal", "marine resources", "natural resources", "public lands", "sewage and wastewater", or "water pollution" as search terms.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides comprehensive information on laws, regulations, links to EPA environmental databases.
• QuickFinder This is the topics page for the EPA, you can use this list to go directly to resources on your topic.
• Where You Live This page links to resources to find out about the environment in your local community.
• Laws and Regulations This page links to sources of environmental law.
• International Nuclear Safety Center Database: from the U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory. Provides information on nuclear plants (including maps),research reactors and fuel facilities from around the world. Also includes a database of material properties, and bibliographies.
• National Library of Medicine has several databases on environmental releases and their effect on health, such as:
• Haz-Map database on hazardous chemicals and occupational diseases.
• TOXMAP provides a "geographic representation of Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data."
• TOXNET this database searches across numerous databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
• Regulations.gov This web site allows you to comment on federal regulations and search the comments on regulations.
• United States Energy Information Administration provides Country Analysis Briefs on energy issues for selected countries.

• ECOLEX--a gateway to international environmental law. "Users can search using subject area, keyword, country, or date. The list of subjects includes, for example: climate/atmosphere; fresh water; marine environment; soils; forests; biodiversity; energy; protected areas; hazardous substances; and wastes. ECOLEX includes information on multilateral treaties; national legislation; European Union instruments; international "soft law" and related documents; law and policy literature; and judicial decisions."
• Eldis: the Electronic Development and Environment Information System "ELDIS is a Gateway to Information Sources on Development and the Environment" and directory of electronic information sources.
• European Environment Agency (EEA) "aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public."
• Reports and publications about Europe's environment.
• Indicators on Europe's environment.
• Data sets used in preparing the EEA's reports
• State of the Environment Reporting Information System (SERIS) SERIS is an inventory of national state of the environment reports. The database contains brief publications details for recent (1997 onwards) reports for countries included in the EEA's third assessment report. SERIS contains links to the reports and to the main organisation involved in the report. Reports can be identified by their geographic coverage or the year of publication. National and multi-national reports are included in the database.
• European Union
• Activities of the European Union - Environment
  Includes links to current statistics, documents, legal summaries and legal texts.
• European Environment Agency
• European Union and the Environment
  This page examines reports, programmes, and resources from the European Union in regards to environment.
• European Parliament - Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
• Nuclear Energy Agency, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Information about nuclear safety, radioactive waste management, radiation protection, nuclear law and other topics.
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Environment Online publications and initiatives of the OECD in the area of environment. Current areas: State of the Environment, Climate Change, Pollution Prevention and Control, Environmental Health and Safety, Environmental Economics. Currently under development, the page will contain statistics and data in the future.
• SourceOECD CU  This database from the OECD contains full-text books, periodicals and statistics.
• United Nations
• Global Issues on the UN Agenda - Environment
  Includes links to resources by UN offices and affiliated agencies, documents, speeches, and more
• Greenhouse Gas Inventory This is the data from the greenhouse gas inventory from the United Nations.
• United Nations Environment Programme Information on international activities in relation to global climate change, desertification, biological diversity, endangered species, hazardous wastes, migratory species, ozone, trade and the environment, and other information. Full text of international conventions and many reports, press releases, and other materials available online.
• State of the Environment Reports (UNEP)
• GEO: Global Environment Outlook The complete report includes global overview, regional status and trends, regional policy responses, forecasts for the environmental future of the earth in the absence of significant change, and summaries of actions which should be taken to alleviate environmental degradation.
• World Bank Environment page
• World Bank's Environment Strategy
• Operations Evaluation Department Publications contain country, region and other reports on environmental issues.
• New Ideas in Pollution Regulation An international consortium which hopes to answer the question "how can governments, communities, and industry better understand and deal with the problems of pollution?" Site includes working papers and data sets.
• World Bank e-Library CU This database provides access to all the publications of the World Bank, including those environmental issues.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides extensive information on all aspects of conservation, including habitats, regions, protected areas, climate change and individual species.

• Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) CIESIN is "dedicated to furthering the interdisciplinary study of global environmental change." The CIESIN site features population data, environmental treaties and "thematic guides" on topics such as agriculture, human health, land use, ozone depletion, political institutions, remote sensing, and other topics. Each of the thematic guides is a small hypertext library on the topic, integrating synthesis of current research with full text of articles appearing in scientific journals which have granted permission to publish electronic versions of print articles. CIESIN also offers interactive data retrieval and mapping.
• Environmental Resources on the Web--a joint project of the Center for Environmental Journalism and University Libraries. Annotated links to resources.
• European Partners for the Environment includes publications on sustainable development, global statistics on environmental indicators, links to related organizations, and other information.
• Scorecard provides information on pollution and the sources of pollution from the Environmental Defense Action Fund.
• Trade and Environment Database case studies on the effects of trade on the environment.
• World Environmental Library "contains 400 publications (45,000 pages) of ideas and solutions in the fields of Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Energy, Health, Natural Resources, Policy, Sustainable Development,Waste Management and Water." From the New Zealand Digital Library, a site with several important collections of digital materials from intergovernmental and international organizations.
• World Resources Institute provides the complete texts of over 300 reports, papers, and books on environmental issues.
• EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal provides a wide array of environmental data and information. The material is grouped into broad topics: coastal and marine ecosystems; water resources and freshwater ecosystems; climate and atmosphere; population, health and human well-being; economics, business and the environment; energy and resources; biodiversity and protected areas; agriculture and food; forests and grasslands; and environmental institutions and governance. After selecting a broad topic, the user has access to databases, datatables, country profiles, maps, and feature articles.
• Available online publications, this is the list of available online publications, including the World Resources.

Resources in the Catalog

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on the environment available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  environment* and statistics	environment* and statistics
  air pollution	air pollution
  environment* and histor*	environment* and histor*
  environment* and law (government publications only)	environment* and law (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Climate Change
• Endangered Species
• Energy and Alternative Fuels
• Water