Natural Science: Websites

Official energy statistics from the U.S. government.

EURACTIV is a leader among online media specialised in EU policy. Their website collects news articles, official reports, policy briefs.

Official data source from Food and Agriculture Organization.

AO's Global Information System on Water and Agriculture.

NASA's directory gives access to Earth science data sets and services relevant to global change and Earth science research.

A Sankey diagram of oil production and consumption provided by the International Energy Agency.

International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, a comprehensive source of information on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species.

AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services.

The E-Print Network is a free service of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). It provides links to thousands of scientific web sites and databases.

A consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access.

A list of open access journals prepared by Science Library Association.

Research guide prepared by the Library of Congress.

An online encyclopedia focused on life-forms and biodiversity.

A wiki focused on environment and sustainability issues

An open-access resource, sponsored by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), with nearly 9,000 multimedia files.

A tool, provide by UN, to calculate carbon and carbon-related personal consumption.

Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr stream, with images from the BHL's collections.

Online agricultural trade magazine (in Italian).

The preprint server for biology, hoste by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

News and information portal on climate change by EURACTIV Media Network, gathering media organisations in more than 12 European capitals, each publishing in their own languages.

International multilateral treaty on biological diversity from the UN Environment Programme.

News and information from the 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals.

The ENB is a balanced, timely and independent reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations. It is the flagship publication of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Elementa is a trans-disciplinary, open-access journal committed to the facilitation of collaborative, peer-reviewed research. Its main focus is on accelerating scientific solutions to the challenges presented by the current era of human impact.

A leading Open Access publisher and Open Science platform.

Endangered species database by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

IISD is an independent think tank championing solutions to the planet’s greatest sustainability challenges.

PNAS, the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is global in scope and submission is open to all researchers worldwide.

The leading and only national agriculture publication in Canada.

The full reference list from the book River Planet by Martin Gibling

Science Europe is the European association representing the interests of major public research performing and research funding organisations.

A comprehensive library of resources from Science Europe, including the most recent publications, briefings, and position statements.

Subject Collections provide a look at articles published by Science since 1996 that have been classed within a particular discipline or topic.

Oceanography portal by Smithsonian.

Topic pages and articles from Smithsonian.