Provides news about the Earth, environment, ecosytems, climate, environmental science, and earth scioence research.

NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.

Great news, images, and movies of the aurora borealis (northern lights) and the aurora australis (southern lights)

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world's frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth's cryosphere. NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere.

The Encyclopedia of Earth is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The scope of the Encyclopedia of Earth is the environment of the Earth broadly defined, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth. It offers articles on a variety of topics related to the Earth, its ecosystems and their relationship with society. It includes articles about specific geographic sites around the world, and biographies, which are short articles about individuals who have made significant contributions to our knowledge about the Earth’s environments and how they function. Also included are: definitions of some of the most common and important concepts related to the Earth’s environments, speeches by well-known individuals on topics related to the physical, social and economic aspects of the environment, significant reports by international bodies, such as the United Nations, or other government or non-governmental agencies, ebooks of interest that are either already in the public domain or for whom the EoE has received permission from the publisher to post here. Copyright rules may apply. images, videos and sound files.

Explore the causes and effects of climatic and environmental change through the use of real satellite data. Included are: (Earth) Image of the Day, Global Maps, Natural Hazards, and Biomes (Coniferous Forest - Shrubland - Tundra - Rainforest - Desert)

The award winning Sea and Sky website, created by amateur astronomer and marine aquarium hobbyist J.D. Knight, is your one-stop source for all things related to the oceans, aquariums, astronomy, and space. It includes selected links to hundreds of quality sea related websites, as well as hundreds of images and some flash and java interactives related to the subject matter.

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Remembered in this article from the USGS.

Compiled by tsunami researcher Dr George Pararas-Carayannis, this resource provides announcements, full-text papers and links to related sites covering tsunamis and other natural hazards. Topics covered include: background information on tsunamis; tsunami warning systems; tsunami prediction and risk assessment; historical tsunamis; major tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean; tsunamis of volcanic origin; other tsunami sites; earthquakes; volcanoes; hurricanes; and other natural disasters. To complete these comprehensive Disaster Pages, the additional major categories of Climate Change, Ocean Governance, Ocean Sustainability, and Disaster Archaeology have been added.

This site, from the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)at the University of Memphis, USA, provides the user with a range of earthquake related information, including recent earthquake information, earthquakes facts and fiction, how to survive an earthquake, earthquakes as a hazard (available in long and short versions) and series of myths about earthquakes.

Includes information from each area of the U.S. about major earthquakes. Includes a Seismicity Map and Seismic Hazard Map of the region, Quaternary Fault and Fold Information, and information about historic earthquakes.

This United States Geological Survey (USGS) webpage provides many resources for learning about the science of earthquakes.

Our geology links include images of all sorts (land, sea and air), plate tectonics, maps, geological time, a mineralogy database, meteorology, and much more.

Geology.com offers a dictionary geology and earth science terms, news related to geology and eaerth science, as well as articles and images related to : astronomy, careers, climate change, diamonds, earthquakes, energy, fossils, gemstones, geologic hazards, geology tools, geothermal, gold, historical geology, hurricanes, igneous rocks, impact events, landslides, metals, metamorphic rocks, meteorites, minerals, oceanography, oil and gas, plate tectonics, rare earth elements, rocks, rock tumblers, satellite images, sedimentary rocks, subsidence, tsunamis, U.S.A maps, volcanoes, water, and world maps.

The National Wetlands Research Center, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, addresses emerging issues that are of concern to natural resource partners and the scientific community in thematic, geographic, and scientific areas where decision critical information is needed by the Nation’s environmental and water managers. featured topics include: wetlands, Louisiana land change, hurricane science, Lower Mississippi Valley, USGS Gulf of Mexico science, DRAGON partnership, invasive species, amphibians, South Central ARMI, and wildlife mortality events.

Links to information about what is groundwater, aquifers, artesian water, rivers contain groundwater, water wells, land subsidence, sinkholes, groundwater quality, pesticides in groundwater, water well contamination, groundwater use, groundwater depletion, water-level decline, drought and groundwater, how hydrologists find groundwater, the water cycle, groundwater storage, groundwater discharge, infiltration, and springs.

The Water Cycle (also known as the hydrologic cycle) is the journey water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again.

NWS Lightning Safety and Awareness, videos, handouts, indoor safety and outdoor risk reduction tips, medical facts, history, survivor stories, photos, teacher tools, kids page, statistics, toolkits, posters, signs, myths, and more.

Introduces high, middle and low level clouds, vertically developed clouds, plus lifting mechanisms and processes responsible for producing clouds and precipitation. Includes: cirrus, cirrostratus, altocumulus, convective clouds, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, fair weather cumulus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, contrails, billow clouds, mammatus, pileus, orographic, lee wave clouds, convection, thermals, convergence, frontal lifting, orographic lifting,cloud development, and relative humidity.

Scientists at NSIDC study ways to map global snow cover from satellite and ways to determine the contribution of melting snow to regional water supplies. NSIDC's All About Snow provides general information about snow, as well as links to resources for learning more about all aspects of snow. Research themes include: Advanced Modeling and Observing Systems - Characterizing and predicting the state of the Earth system on all scales using direct observations and techniques for projecting outcomes mathematically, Geodynamics - Gaining a better understanding of convection within the Earth's mantle, and of how convection affects the surface of our planet, Regional Processes - Understanding the role of climate information used in regional decisions concerning natural resources, Climate System Variability, Planetary Metabolism - The complex web of biochemical and ecological processes that occur within the biosphere, and the interaction of these processes with the lithosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere.

From dinosaurs to mastodons, discover the rich fossil history of our region. In this major exhibition, created by the Museum, ponder a mystery, examine the strong fossil evidence from the Museum's collection, and use scientific tools to discover answers. Traveling through a 75-million-year timeline, from the age of dinosaurs to the Ice Ages, experience an unfolding of the prehistory of southern California and Baja California, Mexico.

This site is all about fossils. If you want to know some basics like what a fossil is or how fossils are formed you will find it here. It is especially for kids, teachers, students, and homeschoolers who want to put some fun into their earth science classes. It is also for more advanced collectors who want to learn more about their specimens. Also includes a section related to Geologic gtime.

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, (FEOW) provides a new global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. Covering virtually all freshwater habitats on Earth, this first-ever ecoregion map, together with associated species data, is a useful tool for underpinning global and regional conservation planning efforts, particularly to identify outstanding and imperiled freshwater systems; for serving as a logical framework for large-scale conservation strategies; and for providing a global-scale knowledge base for increasing freshwater biogeographic literacy. Includes large river deltas, montane freshwaters, oceanic islands, tropical and subtropical coastal rivers, xeric freshwaters and endorheic (closed) basins, large lakes, temperate upland rivers, temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands, temperate coastal rivers, polar freshwaters, and more.