Environmental Statistics

General Sources

Biological Indicators of Watershed Health. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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.
Environmental Data Explorer. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 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.
FAOstat: Online databases from the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Statistics Canada - Environment
World Resources Institute -- Publications and datasets.

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 U.S. Energy Information Administration. Includes an annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory, including historical data to 1980.
National Climatic Data Center, Data Access Tools. Provides access to climatological data formerly published in Climatological Data and Local Climatological Data.

Annual Energy Outlook. Energy Information Administration. Presents projections and analysis of US energy supply, demand, and prices for future years.
Annual Energy Review Energy Information Administration. Provides US data on energy production, consumption, and economics.
International Energy Data. Energy Information Administration. Data on the world energy markets.

FAO Forestry Statistics
State of the World's Forests. (Biennial) FAO. Presents information on the current status of the world's forests, recent major developments and trends.
US Forest Service. Research & Development - Information/Publications Center. Access to 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.

National Toxic Substance Incidents Program From the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, NTSIP "collects and combines information from many resources to protect people from harm caused by spills and leaks of toxic substances."
Superfund Site Information (CERCLIS) Database. EPA. Contains information on hazardous waste sites, potentially hazardous waste sites and remedial activities across the nation, including sites that are on the National Priorities List (NPL) or being considered for the NPL

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: Victoria Mitchell, vmitch@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 04/23/2012