Environmental Links

originally created for the course
C/I 11D: The Environment: Issues and Choices

George M. Diggs, Jr.
Department of Biology and Center for Environmental Studies
Austin College, Sherman, Texas
& Research Associate, Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Fort Worth

 

Particularly Useful Links
Environmental News Network Searching the Internet World Population Counter Citing Internet Sources Textbook Web Link Austin College Virtual Library

 

News on the Environment:

Environmental News Network
http://209.19.141.66/
http://www.enn.com/


Assorted Environmental Links:

Center for Conservation Biology Network
http://conbio.bio.uci.edu/

Climate Change Policy
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/Climate_Change_Policy/

Conservation Action Network
http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/about.htm

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

Internet Environmental Resources
http://www.muohio.edu/~zoocwis/zoo_121b/ecolenv.htmlx

Environmental Conservation Hotlinks
http://ice.ucdavis.edu/echo/

EnviroLink Network
http://envirolink.netforchange.com/

EE-Link Environmental Education on the Internet mission is to spread information and ideas that will help educators explore the environment and investigate current issues with students
http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/

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/iuc/

Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity and the Environment
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl

WWW Virtual Library - Environment
http://earthsystems.org/Environment.shtml

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


Selected Environmental/Conservation Organizations:

Center for Plant Conservation
http://www.iucn.org/

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/nwf/

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

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 Natural Resource Conservation Commission
http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us


Biodiversity Materials:

Association for Biodiversity Information
http://www.abi.org/

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

Biodiversity and its value
http://kaos.erin.gov.au/life/general_info/op1.html

Biodiversity Related Web Sites--A directory of about 300 links to other sites designed for use by professionals and college students. Maintained by The Nature Conservancy and The Natural Heritage Network.
http://www.heritage.tnc.org/oth_svrs.html

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

Ecology and Biodiversity
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/browse/

Internet Biodiversity Service
http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/ibs/

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 Encyclopedia
http://www.brittanica.com/

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://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html

How to cite Internet/electronic sources
http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/mla.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Discount College Bookstore (to order books)
http://www.ecampus.com/

Comparison of Book Prices (very helpful for finding lowest price)
http://www.addall.com/


Classical Works Online:

Biological Classics on the Internet
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/e00/classics.htm

Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/d36_beag/beagle.htm

Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/d36_orig/origin.htm

Mendel Web (including copy of Mendel’s original paper)
http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb

Austin College Environmental Projects and Materials on the Web:

Austin College Center for Environmental Studies

Illustrated Texas Floras Project --

Vegetation Map of Texas

Vegetation map of North Central Texas

An online literature cited for information on Texas Plants

 

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