Environmental Links

originally created for the course
C/I 101D: The Environment: Issues and Choices

 

Particularly Useful Links
Environmental News Network World Population Counter Google Textbook Web Link Austin College Virtual Library

 

News on the Environment:

Environmental News Network
http://www.enn.com/


Assorted Environmental Links:

Earth Share’s Earth Saving Tips
http://www.earthshare.org/get_involved/earth_saving_tips.html

The Tree of Life (Information about relationships of all living organisms)
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

United Nations Environment Program
http://www.unep.ch/

World Population Counter
http://metalab.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop


Selected Environmental/Conservation Organizations:

Conservation International
http://www.conservation.org/

Defenders of Wildlife
http://www.defenders.org/index.html

Earth Share (including an Environmental Resource Guide and Earth Saving Tips)
http://www.earthshare.org/

National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/

Rain Forest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/

National Parks Trust
http://www.parktrust.org./

National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/

Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/

Nature Conservancy
http://www.tnc.org/

Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/

World Conservation Union
http://www.iucn.org/

Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldwatch.org

World Wildlife Fund
http://www.worldwildlife.org/

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/index.html


Biodiversity Materials:


Biodiversity
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server (Lots of good links)
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/

Biodiversity and Conservation
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/Titlpage.htm

Convention on Biological Diversity
http://www.biodiv.org/

Nature Serve
http://www.natureserve.org

Species 2000: Indexing the world’s known species
http://www.sp2000.org/

World Species Lists
http://www.envirolink.org/species/


Utilities and General Links:

Austin College Virtual Library (links to all types of information)
http://abell.austincollege.edu/Abell/Elinfor/virtlib.html

Online Thesaurus and Dictionaries
http://www.dictionary.com/
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
http://www.thesaurus.com/

CIA World Factbook (maps and other information about various countries)
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Famous Quotes
http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html

Currency Converter (Universal)
http://www.xe.net/ucc/

Language Translator:
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/translate.dyn

Texas Weather:
http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/SouthCentral/Texas/

Dallas Weather
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Dallas_TX_US_f.html

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/evaluating.html

How to cite Internet/electronic sources
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Metric Conversion
http://www.admiralmetals.com/metric_conv.htm

Austin College Environmental Projects and Materials on the Web:

Austin College Center for Environmental Studies

Austin College Weather Station -- http://weather.austincollege.edu/

East Texast Flora Project -- www.easttexasflora.org

Illustrated Texas Floras Project --

Vegetation Map of Texas

Vegetation map of North Central Texas

An online literature cited for information on Texas Plants