Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Searchable database of all federal regulations

Environmental laws and regulations from the EPA

While you can search EPA information through the US Federal Science Publications database, you can also dive right in to EPA-only publications through this database.

"free access to NCDC's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information. These data include quality controlled daily, monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days as well as radar data and 30-year Climate Normals. "

A portal to U.S. government science information, Science.gov provides access to scientific information from science divisions in13 federal agencies including: USDA; USFS; USDOT; EPA; NASA; NSF; US Department of Energy and more.

A searchable database of USFS reports and articles, including over 300,000 resources.

Each annual volume has a theme. State of the World 2011 is " Innovations that Nourish the Planet"

Each report has a separate theme on global sustainable development.

The IPCC is a panel whose role is to report on the impacts of climate change. It does not produce its own data but studies and summarizes scientific literature. It produces a "Summary for Policymakers" full assessment approximately every 5 years.

Search for publications and resources from the UN via this topics page within the UN's Sustainable Development site.