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- 1996 World Food Summit and Plan of Action
The UN FAO maintains this site to provide information on the 1996 World Food Summit and the Plan of Action that came from that meeting. Follow-up information is also available here.
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- Air Data
The AirData Web site gives you access to air pollution data for the entire United States.
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- Air Pollution Emissions Overview
The amounts and types of emissions change every year. These changes are caused by changes in the nation‚s economy, industrial activity, technology improvements, traffic, and by many other factors. Air pollution regulations and emission controls also have an effect. The National Air Pollutant Emission Trends report summarizes long-term trends in emissions of air pollutants and gives in-depth analysis of emissions for the current year. The report also discusses emission evaluation and prediction methodologies.
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- Alliance for Global Sustainability
The Alliance for Global Sustainability brings together research teams from 4 of the world’s foremost research universities to study large-scale, multidisciplinary environmental problems that are faced by the world’s ecosystems, economies, and societies.
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- American Farmland Trust
American Farmland Trust works to protect our nation‚s best, most productive farmland while encouraging farmers to improve the stewardship of their land.
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- American Water Works Association
The American Water Works Association is an international nonprofit scientific and educational society dedicated to the improvement of drinking water quality and supply.
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
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- Clean Air Act
Find the text of this important law on this well-organized page.
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- Desalination
This is the Australian Government’s document regarding desalination, its future, and its impacts.
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- Effects of the Clean Air Act
Effects of Title 4 of the Clean Air Act of 1990 on the electric utility industry are constantly updated on this site.
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- Environmental Protection Agency
This site provides information about current trends for air, land and water protection. It has a large variety of resources.
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- EPA’s National Priorities List (NPL)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List (NPL), searchable by state. Information includes the area that is contaminated, how it became contaminated and who is responsible for causing the problem, what the contamination problem is, and how they plan to clean it up or how they have performed the cleanup.
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- Famine Early Warning Systems Network
USAID‚s Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) is an information system designed to help decision-makers prevent famine in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using satellite and ground-based data, specialists assess crop and meteorological data and disseminate the information to governments in the area.
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- Food Chains and Food Webs
This web site contains a description of the food chain, food web, and an ecological pyramids in an ecosystem.
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- Freedom From Hunger
Freedom from Hunger is committed to having a major long-term impact on hunger by promoting self-help for a hungry world.
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- Indoor Air Quality
This USEPA provides this Web page on a variety of indoor air pollutants.
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- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. It supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world and brings governments, non-government organizations, United Nations agencies, companies and local communities together to develop and implement policy, laws and best practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network.
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- NOAA
This site provides links to information about the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the continuing efforts to restore Prince William Sound
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- Sustainable Development Information Service
Home page for the Sustainable Development Information Service (SDIS). The Sustainable Development Information Service provides global and country-level data about sustainable development and the environment. SDIS helps users identify and locate the best available information and in many cases provides direct access to online resources.
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- Zero Emission Now
This page gives data on contribution to greenhouse gas by some modes of transportation.
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