Geographical: Global Environmental Links
- European Environment Agency
Includes news and announcements, databases and portals to individual country information. - ILEC World Lakes Database
Basic statistics on major lakes throughout world. Searchable by name of lake or by regional map. Contains details of environmental issues affecting individual lakes. - NASA Earth Observatory
Create animations over time from datasets relating to sea temperature, cloud cover, heat radiation, vegetation etc and compare patterns of data against one another. - National Climatic Data Center
Official U.S. site with worldwide coverage.Includes climatic summaries, maps and databases, details of extreme events. Satellite, climate and radar data. - National Geophysical Data Center
The Center aims to link global environmental data from satellites and other sources. Links to World Data Centers for Glaciology, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Palaeoclimatology, Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Solid Earth Geophysics. - National Oceanographic Data Center
Includes Oceanographic Profile Database and World Ocean Atlas. Site allows download of data and online plotting of graphs and charts. - The Economist's Country Briefings
Includes key economic and political data, news and links to official and media sites in individual countries. - U.S. National Transportation Library
Resources are chiefly technical, research and policy documents from federal, state, local and other government agencies. Links to other significant websites and documents. - World Wildlife Fund
Includes news updates and downloadable factsheets and other publications.
Disclaimer: Links to reference sites are for guidance only. While Clackmannanshire Libraries attempts to maintain and monitor the currency and accuracy of linked reference sites it does not accept responsibility for their content, which may be subject to change.
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