This list of environmental websites includes
websites, blogs, podcasts and other web-based
platforms associated with environmental issues.
== General ==
=== Blogs ===
Chinadialogue—based in London, Beijing,
and San Francisco, "China and the world discuss
the environment"
Dot Earth—environmental blog by Andrew Revkin
at NYTimes.com
Earther—environmental blog published by
Gizmodo Media Group.
HuffPost Green—section of the Huffington
Post news website, content aggregator and
blogs site
Inhabitat—founded in 2004 by New York City
designer and architecture graduate Jill Fehrenbacher—weblog
about trends toward environmental sustainability
TreeHugger—acquired by Discovery Communications
on August 1, 2007—rated the top sustainability
blog of 2007 by Nielsen Netratings
=== 
Encyclopedias ===
Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE)—a component
of the Digital Universe project—about the
Earth, its natural environments, and their
interaction with society
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)—sponsored
by UNESCO—an interdisciplinary encyclopedia,
inspired by the sustainable development movement
=== 
Geographical information ===
Geo-wiki—founded in 2009 by the project
partners the International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis, University of Applied Sciences
Wiener Neustadt and University of Freiburg—to
help improve the quality of global land cover
maps
Global Change Master Directory—part of NASA's
Earth Observing System Data and Information
System (EOSDIS) and NASA's contribution to
the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
(CEOS)—a directory of Earth Science data
sets and related tools/services
Global Earth Observation System of Systems
(GEOSS)—being built by the Group on Earth
Observations—to provide near-real-time environmental
data, information and analyses
Google Earth Engine—developed by Google,
in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University
and the United States Geological Survey—providing
satellite images of environmental change
GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support
System)—whose development has involved a
large number of federal US agencies, universities,
and private companies—used in academic and
commercial settings around the world, as well
as many governmental agencies and many environmental
consulting companies
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)—using
two satellites launched from Russia; overall
mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in California—to study climate and oceanography
and geology
Green Map—based in New York City—enabling
local mapmakers to make environmentally themed
maps
OneGeology—launched on August 6, 2008 at
the 33rd International Geological Congress
(IGC) in Oslo, Norway—to enable online access
to dynamic digital geological map of the world
for everyone
Semantic Sensor Web—using standardization
efforts of the Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC) and Semantic Web Activity of the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C)—managing data
about the global environment
UNEP GEO Data Portal—the authoritative source
for data sets used by the UNEP and its partners—covering
themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests,
Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and
GDP
=== News and analysis ===
A\J: Alternatives Journal—based in Ontario,
Canada, "Canada's Environmental Voice," website
and bimonthly magazine
Earth Negotiations Bulletin—published by
the Reporting Services arm of the International
Institute for Sustainable Development—covering
negotiations, workshops and conferences on
a variety of subjects in environmental policy
and international law
Ecology Law Currents—produced by students
at the UC Berkeley School of Law—an online
publication containing "short-form commentary
and analysis on timely environmental law and
policy issues"
Environment and Energy Publishing—based
in Washington, D.C.—covering environmental
and energy policy and marketsAnnual Oregon
Coast Cleanup And Awareness Day-based in Corvallis,
Oregon -covering environmental websites that
save the ocean and cleans beaches.
Environment News Service—environmental news
agency and website—based in Lincoln City,
Oregon
Environmental Research Letters (ERL)—based
in California—publishing peer-reviewed research
across the whole of environmental science
The Environmentalist—public interest news
site covering politics, business, climate,
history, lifestyle, world news, science, editorial,
links and resources.
Carried by major wire services (Reuters, USAToday,
Sun-Times Group...).
Environmentmagazine.org—hybrid, peer-reviewed
magazine and website on "Science and Policy
for Sustainable Development," based in Philadelphia
Green Builder Media—based in Eastsound,
W.A.—publishes the North American monthly
business-to-business sustainability and green
construction magazine Green Builder Magazine.
Grist—online, non-profit environmental magazine
and blog(s)—based in Seattle, Washington—"A
beacon in the smog"
The Oil Drum—published by the Institute
for the Study of Energy and Our Future—analysis
and discussion of energy and its impact on
society
Our World 2.0—online magazine created by
the United Nations University—based in Tokyo,
Japan—focuses on climate change, peak oil,
biodiversity and food security
Sarawak Report—online investigative journalism
news site focusing on deforestation and corruption
in Sarawak, Malaysia
Yahoo!
Green—based in California—gathering news,
ideas, and discussion
=== Videos ===
Green.tv—supported by UNEP—broadband TV
channel for films about environmental issues
How to Boil a Frog—managed by Jon Cooksey—a
humor-oriented website with free short videos
The Mother Nature Network—founded by Chuck
Leavell and Joel Babbitt—eight channels:
Earth Matters, Transportation, Business, Technology,
Food, Home, Lifestyle, and Family
Terra: The Nature of Our World—video podcast
produced in conjunction with the MFA program
in Science & Natural History Filmmaking at
Montana State University, Filmmakers for Conservation,
and PBS—weekly video show about science
and natural history
=== 
Other ===
BlueLink Information Network—based in Bulgaria—offering
services (in Bulgarian and English) related
to the environment
Ecojesuit—published by the Global Ignatian
Advocacy Network-Ecology (GIAN-Ecology) of
the Society of Jesus in Brussels and Manila
EnviroLink Network—based in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA—a clearinghouse for environmental
information on the Internet, with chat rooms,
bulletin boards, electronic mailing lists,
and a worldwide forum
GEOLibrary—materials posted from various
governmental and non-profit institutions—occupational
safety and health and environmental health
information
GLOBE Program—operated by the University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
out of Boulder, Colorado—a worldwide, hands-on,
primary and secondary school-based education
and science program
Greenlifestyle—originally a mailing list
in June 2007—with an ongoing focus on the
exchange of practical and cost-effective green
living tips and information that can be applied
in Indonesia
MyEnvironment—built by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency—providing
information about local land, air and water
National Environmental Information Exchange
Network—managed by states, tribes, and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—exchanging
environmental data
National Institute for Environmental eScience
(NIEeS)—was a collaboration between Natural
Environment Research Council (NERC) and the
University of Cambridge—promoting and supporting
the use of e-Science and grid technologies
within the field of environmental research
(not updated since August 2008)
Wiser.org—user-generated online community
space for the social and environmental movement—maps
and connects non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), businesses, governments, and individuals
addressing global issues
== 
Topical ==
=== 
Climate change ===
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST)—managed
by a team of scientists—an effort to resolve
criticism of the current records of the Earth's
surface temperatures by preparing an open
database and analysis of these temperatures
and temperature trends
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
(CDIAC)—organization within the United States
Department of Energy—providing global warming
data and analysis as it pertains to energy
issues
Carbonfund.org—based in Silver Spring, Maryland—providing
carbon offsetting and greenhouse gas reduction
products to individuals, businesses, and organizations
Climate Change TV—funded by companies, governments
and organisations, and produced by the magazine
Responding to Climate Change—the world’s
first web channel specific to climate change
videos
Climateprediction.net—maintained primarily
by Oxford University in England—a distributed
computing project
CLIWOC (climatological database for the world's
oceans)—funded by the European Union—drawing
on British, Dutch, French and Spanish ships'
logbook records for the immediate pre-instrumental
period, 1750 to 1850
CoolCalifornia.org—created by a team of
California State agencies, universities and
a nonprofit organization—a website for Californians
with resources to help them reduce their impact
on the environment and combat climate change
DeSmogBlog—co-founded by Jim Hoggan, president
of a public relations firm based in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada—providing information
about global warming
Earth System Grid (ESG)—funded mainly by
the United States Department of Energy—distributing
data for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
and the 2014 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW)—established
by the World Meteorological Organization—monitoring
trends in the Earth's atmosphere
Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)—managed
by the National Climatic Data Center, Arizona
State University and the Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center, a database of temperature,
precipitation and pressure records
How Global Warming Works—developed by Michael
Ranney, a professor of cognitive psychology
at the University of California, Berkeley—to
educate the public on the mechanisms of global
warming
HURDAT—accessible from the website of the
National Hurricane Center—database for all
tropical cyclone's in the Atlantic Ocean,
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, since 1851
InsideClimate News—based in Brooklyn, New
York—online magazine that "covers clean
energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and
environmental science"
OneClimate—part of Internet portal uk.OneWorld.net—climate
news, social activism and social networking
site
PRECIS (Providing Regional Climates for Impacts
Studies)—required by the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change—enabling
scientists from the around the globe to run
a regional climate model towards carrying
our research into climate change
RealClimate—hosted by Environmental Media
Services—a commentary site by working climate
scientists
Skeptical Science—created in 2007 by Australian
blogger and author John Cook—publishing
articles on current events relating to climate
science and climate policy, and maintaining
a large database of articles analyzing the
merit of arguments commonly put forth by those
who are skeptical of the mainstream scientific
opinion on climate change
TerraPass—based in San Francisco—a social
enterprise that funds greenhouse gas reduction
projects in the United States, and offers
carbon offsets to individuals and businesses
who wish to reduce their carbon footprints
Watts Up With That?—created in 2006 by California
meteorologist Anthony Watts—arguing for
climate change denial
=== Earthquakes ===
Quake-Catcher Network—operated by Stanford
University and UC Riverside—a distributed
computing project using computer-based accelerometers
to detect earthquakes
=== Ecosystems ===
ARKive—launched in the UK by Sir David Attenborough—a
global initiative to locate and gather films,
photographs and audio recordings of the world's
species into one centralised digital library,
for increased environmental awareness
Biosafety Clearing-House—established by
the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety—to facilitate
sharing of information on living modified
organisms (also known as GMOs)
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)—whose
Secretariat office is hosted by the University
of Copenhagen—publishing data provided by
many institutions from around the world
Global Invasive Species Information Network
(GISIN)—global network of organizations—for
sharing information about invasive species
=== 
Environmental art ===
Greenmuseum.org—nonprofit online museum
of environmental art, with a forum, a toolbox,
and event listings
=== 
Nuclear energy ===
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues—part
of the United States’ National Science Digital
Library (NSDL)—a searchable collection of
vetted annotations and bibliographic information
for resources including books, articles, films,
CD-ROMs, and websites pertaining to nuclear
topics
=== 
Oceanography ===
Global Fishing Watch—initiated by Google
in partnership with Oceana and Skytruth—a
project to enable citizens to monitor fishing
activities globally
Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and
Rescue Project (GODAR Project)—initiated
by the National Oceanographic Data Center
(NODC) and the World Data Center system (WDC)—to
provide oceanographic data to climate change
and other researchers
Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program
(GTSPP)—a cooperative international project—to
develop and maintain a global ocean Temperature-Salinity
resource
World Ocean Database Project (WOD)—established
by the World Data Center system (WDC) and
the U.S. government's National Oceanographic
Data Center (NODC)—intended to centrally
store oceanographic data
=== Public relations ===
PR Watch—project of the Center for Media
and Democracy—having a stated mission to
expose deceptive and misleading public relations
campaigns, especially about US environmental
issues
=== Radiation ===
GLOBE at Night—initially a NASA educational
program—crowdsourcing measurements of light
pollution in the night sky
Microwave News—independent and not aligned
with any industry or government agency—reporting
on the health and environmental impacts of
electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and other types
of non-ionizing radiation
=== Renewable energy ===
Clean Energy Project—by the Department of
Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard
University—a distributed computing project
researching organic compounds for solar cells,
polymeric membranes for fuel cells, and molecule
assembly
Global Energy Network Institute (GENI)—non-profit
research and education organization—with
focus on the interconnection of electric power
transmission networks between nations and
continents, emphasizing tapping abundant renewable
energy resources
Wind ENergy Data & Information (WENDI) Gateway—launched
by the Environmental Sciences Division of
Oak Ridge National Laboratory—providing
access to wind energy-related data and information
from a wide spectrum of sources
=== Resource management ===
Downsizer—set up in October 2004 by the
founder members— "a resource for people
who want to live more sustainably"
India Water Portal—initiative of Arghyam,
a foundation set up by Rohini Nilekani—for
sharing water management knowledge amongst
practitioners and the general 
public
=== Sustainability ===
Sustainable Development Online—managed by
the European Union—an international reference
database, specializing in sustainable development
Worldchanging (2003-2011)—was an online
magazine about sustainability and social innovation
=== 
Toxicology ===
EcoCyc—bioinformatics database for the bacterium
Escherichia coli K-12
Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances
(RTECS)—until 2001 maintained by US National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH)—database of toxicity information
== See also ==
.eco
.green
List of biodiversity databases
List of environmental books
List of environmental law reviews and journals
List of environmental periodicals
List of environmental reports
Lists of environmental publications
Lists of websites
