Environmental Management
Data Sources

• Animal Info: Information on rare, threatened and endangered mammals
• Biodiversity Conservation Information System--"joint initiative of eleven programmes and partners of IUCN-The World Conservation Union, the Biodiversity Conservation Information System (BCIS) seeks to support environmentally sound decision-making and actions affecting the status of biodiversity and landscapes at the local, national, regional and global levels through cooperative provision of data, information, advice and related services."
• Chemical Scorecard--a wonderful interactive source from the Environmental Defense Fund allows you to type in your zip code and find out what companies are dumping how much of what chemical contaminants, what health effects, if known, these chamicals have, and how your county compares with other counties in the state. It also includes a form for faxing your questions or complaints directly to the companies.
• Conservation Database--an "online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats."
• Dept. of Energy Research Areas --the old searchable index and full text database of all research done by and for the Department of Energy since 1996, with projects in biology, environment, physics, chemistry, and engineering has now been discontinued and research made a little harder to get. However, this site will direct you to areas that you can then see a listing of papers and reports. I guess we should be thankful they are there at all these days.
• Ecosystem Management Analysis Center--from the Forest Service, offers assistance, data, and training.
• The Environment: Understanding the Issue -- The Understanding the Issue section lays out the facts and policy alternatives, while the Public Opinion section offers a detailed profile of public thinking about the issue.
• Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia
• Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE)--a service that delivers more to registered users nonetheless contains research reports, news, a job service, training information, etc.
• Environmental Protection Agency--enormous quantities of both data and legal information here. Your basic starting point.
• Global Forest Watch -- maps covering close to half of the world's forests and their decline.
• GREENfile -- a free database, GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. 
• Hazardous Materials Safety--particularly useful links for anyone dealing with spills, cleanup, environmental pollutants.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- excellent.
• National Center for Environmental Health--facts sheets and brochures on environmental health problems.
• National Geophysical Data Center--basic climate, geophysical and environmental data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• National Interagency Fire Center--NIFC is the nation's support center for wildland firefighting. It is an excellent site which includes statistics, articles and numerous, authoritative links.
• Urban Environmental Management --includes full text documents and articles, statistics, glossary of terms, practical "how to" case studies.
• Western Waters: Digital Library -- excellent, with images
• World's Water -- provides information and data about global freshwater problems and solutions.  Includes a Water Conflict Chronology.