Environment - Government Information - Selected Resources by Subject

Regional-focused Resources

New England Water Science Center (USGS)
Provide timely and reliable information to Federal, State, Tribal, and local stakeholders on the water resources of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Interdisciplinary research on human interactions in the environment including populations, sustainability, use of spatial data, climates, etc. From Columbia University.
Envirofacts
Multisystem (location-based) or topic searches for environmental information.
EnviroMapper
A single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
How's My Waterway (US EPA)
Water quality information is displayed on 3 scales: community, state and national. Information ranges from local watershed water quality and restorations and protection efforts to national drinking water information and metrics.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Information, data, and maps on biomass, solar, geothermal, wind energy, and more.

National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) This link opens in a new window
NSCEP is the site for a wide variety of free EPA print and digital documents, including everything from pamphlets to research reports. For a narrower search of EPA-supported research, go to EPA Science Inventory.

Natural Resources Conservation Service
Provides information and tools related to conservation of land and resources.
NOAA Collections (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Includes CoRIS: Coral Reef Information System, VOICES Oral History Archives, NOAA Ocean Exploration Video Portal, Coast Survey's Historical Maps and Charts, and National Weather Service Heritage
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Writes and enforces regulations relating to human health and the environment. Sets national standards that states and tribes enforce through their own regulations.
USFWS National Digital Library (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
Includes images, videos, documents, audio, and maps

Data Resources (UN Environment Programme)
Portal to range of online data resources including the UNEP Document Respository, UNEP Open Data, Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer, and more.
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
Focuses on human interactions in the environment. SEDAC is one of the Distributed Active Archive Centers in NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).