Biological & Environmental Sciences: Specialist Websites

Gateway to reliable and accurate information on Scotland’s environment. This site is steered by a partnership chaired by the Scottish Government.

Index of books, journal articles and reports on the topic of environmental ethics. Check the Library Catalogue to see whether the book, journal or report you have found is available from our Library.

Launched to celebrate the UN decade for water. Provides free access to UN and associated bodies (FAO, WHO, etc) full text reports, guidelines and multimedia. Topics include: gender and water, climate change, water and food security, sanitation, water quality.

Gives open access to United Nations Environment Programme’s publications, technical and assessment reports, guidelines, newsletters, journal articles and other types of information material

A digital 'Noah's Ark' - an online library of video, sound and text information about endangered species.

Information about life on earth (animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria).

Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world

An important resource from the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland. See other resources at https://bsbi.org/resources.

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