Environmental Statistics

General Sources

Biological Indicators of Watershed Health. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Earthtrends: The Environmental Information Portal. World Resources Institute.
Envirofacts Warehouse. US Environmental Protection Agency. Access to a number of EPA databases, including Toxic Release Inventory, Superfund data, water and air releases, and others.
FAOstat: Online databases from the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
GEO Data Portal. United Nations Environment Programme. Online database with more than 400 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP.
HazDat (Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database). US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
World Resources. World Resources Institute. (non-governmental) Biennial report which includes information on global environmental and natural resource conditions and trends.

Earth Observatory. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Provides satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change.
Environmental Indicators from the Annual Energy Review. Energy Information Administration. Inclused an annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory, including historical data to 1980.
National Climatic Data Center Online Library. Provides access to climatological data formerly published in Climatological Data and Local Climatological Data.

Annual Energy Review. Energy Information Administration. Provides US data on energy production, consumption, and economics.
International Energy Annual. Energy Information Administration. Data on the world energy markets.

State of the World's Forests. (Biennial) FAO. Presents information on the current status of the world's forests, recent major developments and trends.
Data and Information Systems. US Forest Service. Access to a number of databases containing information about the national forest system in the United States.
Canadian Forest Service Home Page. Includes The State of Canada's Forests and other data about Canadian forests and forestry.

Water Resources of the United States. United States Geological Survey. Provides links to data on surface water, ground water, and water quality.
National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress. EPA. Gives data on water quality and identifies problems with the water supply in the United States.
USGS Water Data for the Nation. United States Geological Survey. Provides access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Maintained by: Ted D. Smith, tedsmith@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 09/30/2008