Open Educational Resources: Environmental Studies, Science, & Sustainability

NRCS helps America’s farmers, ranchers and forest landowners conserve the nation’s soil, water, air and other natural resources.

The E.P.A.'s mission is to protect human health and the environment.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established by Presidential Initiative in 1989 and mandated by Congress in the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990 to “assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.”

The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The Park Service cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country and the world.

A free and open access database accessible anywhere you have Internet access.

"The National Agricultural Library is one of four national libraries of the United States. It houses one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural information collections and serves as the nexus for a national network of state land-grant and U.S. Department of Agriculture field libraries.

Contains energy and energy‑related scientific and technical information collected by the US Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies.

If you navigate to the right hand side of the page; NASA has a drop down menu of popular topics as well as directories to other related agencies.

NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Their reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them.

Try their Maps and Data tab. NOAA Climate.gov is a source of timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate. The goal of this site is to promote public understanding of climate science and climate-related events, to make our data products and services easy to access and use, to provide climate-related support to the private sector and the Nation’s economy, and to serve people making climate-related decisions with tools and resources that help them answer specific questions.

From their website: The USGS is a science organization that provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, the natural hazards that threaten us, the natural resources we rely on, the impacts of climate and land-use change, and the core science systems that help us provide timely, relevant, and usable information.