Research Guides: Environmental Issues: Websites

Websites

International Organizations

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The United Nations Environment Programme
To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
Action Bioscience
Promoting bioscience literacy sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. The web site provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
A Canadian non-profit promoting change towards sustainable development. Many publications available by theme.
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
The purpose of the Tyndall Centre is to research, assess and communicate from a distinct trans-disciplinary perspective, the options to mitigate, and the necessities to adapt to, climate change, and to integrate these into the global, UK and local contexts of sustainable development.

National and State Organizations

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The mission of the NOAA is to understand and predict changes in Earth’s environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation’s economic, social, and environmental needs. Browse by 8 different sections on the environment or search their website directly.

California Department of Fish and Game: Page devoted to marine life research.
California Department of Fish & Wildlife Science Institute

NGOs & Associations

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Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
C2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, long recognized in the United States and abroad as an influential and pragmatic voice on climate issues.
Climate Institute
The Climate Institute informs key decision-makers, heightens international awareness of climate change, and identifies practical ways of achieving significant emissions reductions.
Climate Central
Climate Central surveys and conducts scientific research on climate change and informs the public of key findings. Our scientists publish and our journalists report on climate science, energy, sea level rise, wildfires, drought, and related topics.
Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists develop and implement innovative, practical solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems—from combating global warming and developing sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves, to fighting misinformation and reducing the threat of nuclear war.