Environmental Studies Research Guide: Find Websites

Photographs and descriptions of biological control agents of insect, disease, and weed pests in North America.

Identification, images, & information for insects, spiders & their kin in the United States & Canada.

A 10-year international effort undertaken to assess the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life—a task never before attempted on this scale.

A nonprofit organization that combines science and journalism in an effort to inform the public and decision makers about the effects of climate change.

From the American Museum of Natural History. Includes digitized versions of Darwin's manuscripts.

Brings together trusted information from resources across the world such as museums, learned societies, expert scientists, and others into one massive database and a single, online portal.

Provides a new global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity.

Free online textbook for post-secondary students studying introductory physical geography.

A scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change.

International public policy research institute.

A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes.

A free science library and personal learning tool, currently concentrating on genetics and cell biology, brought to you by Nature Publishing Group.

News, information and documents related to species at risk in Canada.

A collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct.

The largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency.

A centre for policy research and analysis addressed to global resource and environmental issues.

At the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs.