A collaboration among the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) "is a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 122 countries." The...

Created in 1999 by non-governmental organizations seeking to implement the Principles of the Aarhus Convention (described on-site), the Interactive Health Ecology Access Links (IHEAL) metasite is "an international service network dedicated to improving the presentation of information about health and the environment to the general public and non-governmental communities." The IHEAL Website offers...

The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America have announced online availability of this journal, in conjunction with Stanford University's HighWire Press. Online full-text content for the Journal of Environmental Quality begins with the January-February 2001 issue and will expand with each month's new issues. Note that the free trial period...

Developed by the Scholarly Communication Center of Rutgers University Libraries, this site offers access to an impressive array of materials related to the New Jersey environment. The scope of the collection is quite broad, including citizen information, technical reports, photographic tours, and even some full-length videos. In addition, many of the items in the digital library are ephemeral or...

The Ambient Air Monitoring System: Near Real Time Data Web site is presented by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The collected data includes pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, and methane among others, as well as all common meteorological data. Records are collected and reported hourly, and can be viewed by parameter or by station, which are...

Developed by the Scottish Executive Development Department Environment Statistics Branch, the Scottish Environment Statistics Online (SESO) Web site provides those users interested in Scotland's environment with valuable information that spans a wide range of years. Especially heavy with data in the last ten years, SESO covers numerous topics: Climate Change and the Ozone Layer, Air Quality,...