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Topic » Environmental Studies

Find citations for information on agricultural science and technology.

Preprint server for biology, contains articles that are unpublished but uploaded to this database to make their findings immediately available and receive feedback before submission to journals.

This search engine covers articles from many different topics, with a focus on scientific literature.

Near real-time land cover maps of the entire planet. Compare and contrast changes.

North American species occurrence data & maps.

"...an international network and research infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth."

U.S. Global Change Research Program: USGCRP conducts state-of-the-art research to understand the interactive processes that influence the total Earth system—which includes the atmosphere, oceans, land, ice, ecosystems, and people.

This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. Indexing and abstracts for more than 612,000 records.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

Search JSTOR for journal articles and book chapters on a sustainability topic.

Non-UWest users may go directly to: https://www.jstor.org/sustainability/

GRID-Geneva develops and maintains several live graphs linked to environmental issues. These graphs can be downloaded as images, pdf or vector files, and their data accessed as .csv or .xls files.

Education, conservation, and research about the Monarch butterfly.

Case studies on a variety of subjects, including conservation.

Find datasets on earth & environmental sciences.

This search engine can help you "home in on key publications, citation, and results..." on your topic. Once you hone in an article, there are automatic recommendations to other related citations, sorted by influence.

"...provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together."

An organization for protecting invertebrate habitats.

This database provides a variety of science and technology information in ten different languages. The database translates search keywords into multiple languages, and search through various data available worldwide, and then answers come back with the language of the search keywords. Full text articles available under the 'Public Access' tab after search.

An open access repository for research data, including journal articles, datasets, and software. Currently contains mostly scientific research data, but open to all subjects. Affiliated with CERN and OpenAIRE.