This summary of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was compiled to describe the current state of understanding of the climate system as it was when the document was written in 2001. It provides estimates of the climate system's projected future evolution and the uncertainties associated with these projections. The report includes information on expected changes ... Full description.

These Congressional Research Service reports from the National Library for the Environment concern water quality and other water policy issues. The reports span the period from late 1993 to the present, summarize congressional amendents regarding water legislation, and provide information on how national agencies and states are implementing these changes. Full description.

Visitors can access information on a variety of water issues in Arizona, including the Colorado River, riparian areas, water conservation, water rights, and recreation. The Arizona Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) provides a glossary of water terms, a stream gauge map and a directory of water-related agencies and organizations, especially Arizona Project WET (Water Education for Teachers). Other ... Full description.

This website provides information on international water law and policy. The International Water Law Project offers full text of many international and regional agreements, declarations and resolutions. Regional documents are organized by continent and then in many cases by waterway to reflect agreements for a particular river basin. The case law section provides examples from the Permanent Court ... Full description.

This website explores the research of Dr. Kim Holland's shark and elasmobranch lab in Hawaii. The lab studies organismic and supraorganismic biology of fish, with a specific focus on sharks and their relatives. The lab makes use of its island location to combine field experiments with lab work. Dr. Holland's lab is a part of the Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology. The site contains numerous research ... Full description.

Life Without Light presents material describing the unique animal communities surrounding deep-sea methane seep habitats in the Gulf of Mexico. Visitors can study numerous photographs and brief text descriptions of tubeworms, mussels, ice worms, and other organisms that inhabit an ecosystem that exists in total darkness. Other materials include an article on deep-sea submersibles, videos of sea life ... Full description.

This non-profit organization provides technical tools and services to community groups, local governments and others to protect streams, lakes, and rivers. The web site features publications related to watershed planning and management and provides summaries of community projects. Technical tools available include Vulnerability Analysis, Watershed Assessment, Rapid Stream Assessment Technique, Retrofit ... Full description.

The Deep Biosphere Laboratory at Goteborg University consists of about 10 people whose unifying interest is in microbial life in underground and sub-seafloor environments. Visitors to the site can access summaries of research projects, personnel information, and links to publications on the topic of underground and sub-seafloor microbes. Research topics include microbes in deep Swedish and Finnish ... Full description.

This database provides access to discharge data from the original UNESCO river archive in a digital format for use by researchers and planners in the water sciences community. While this is a very good global resource, it does not present information on rivers in the United States. Full description.

This site is a US Global Change Research Program Seminar, dated 23 November 1998. It consists of a series or reports that help students to understand how water has been used to transform desert regions into productive and livable environments. Full description.