Web-based tool that provides land owners, managers, and planners with the most current climate change science available * compiles climate change projections, literature-based impacts and management options, and Forest Service land and resource management plans in an online database; * synthesizes these inputs based on user-defined criteria; and * creates an optional customized report to aid forest planning and management. "

"virtual data repository", providing a gateway to information from a variety of data centers and web sites, including those of federal and state governments, academia, private industry, and wind energy-related trade associations. The tools and interfaces on this site have been designed to facilitate the discovery, visualization, subsetting, and downloading of this information.

Nearly 20% of all people-more than a billion-now live within biodiversity hotspots, and their growth rate is faster than the human population at large. This article presents nine steps to reduce biodiversity loss, with a goal of relegating human-caused extinctions to the wrongs of the past.

New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or in your area of interest. Users may choose a county, town, or watershed, or they may specify their own location on a map. They will then receive a list of the animals, plants, and significant natural communities that have been found there, as documented in databases maintained by NYS DEC.

The strategy provides recommendations for developing effective biosphere reserves and a framework for the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. It introduces the history of the Biosphere Reserves and the concept before outlining the vision and strategy as developed from the conference in Seville. Organization: UNESCO: MAB programme Sourced from: Report based on International Conference on Biosphere reserve

# Many Planets, One Earth # Atmosphere # Oceans # Ecosystems # Human Population Dynamics # Risk, Exposure, and Health # Agriculture # Water Resources # Biodiversity Decline # Energy Challenges # Atmospheric Pollution # Earth's Changing Climate # Looking Forward: Our Global Experiment

Naturalists who capture their observations on videotape (or other digital media) are invited to publish their work online in short video-annotated stories.

Naturalists who capture their observations on videotape (or other digital media) are invited to publish their work online in short video-annotated stories.

New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or area of interest. As a gateway to biodiversity information, it is intended for landowners, land managers, citizens, municipal officials, planners, consultants, project developers, researchers, students, and anyone else interested in the natural world. Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.

Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.

US ecoregions and impacts of climate change

fact sheet on how climate change affects birds