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Major Environmental News Services on the Internet

ENN One of the most comprehensive environmental news services on the Internet. Here you can also listen or watch environmental news in a multimedia format.
EMS Environmental Media Services: EMS is a nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues. We build relationships with top scientists, physicians, and other experts to bring journalists the latest and most credible information. EMS was founded in 1994 by former Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated journalist Arlie Schardt. Schardt also headed the Environmental Defense Fund in the 1970s. EMS is a nonprofit funded by foundations and individuals working to improve public understanding of environmental and public health issues.
MSNBC News Environment: Major daily reporting of environmental stories.
Yahoo! - Full Coverage: Top Stories I believe this to be one of the best online resources for getting environmental news because of the vast linking capabilities of Yahoo. Yahoo! Full Coverage - Environment and Nature News The ability to follow an environmental news thread completely to the major newspapers and organizations around the world should make this one of your first stops in gathering environmental news.
Rochester, New York's Environmental News All the environmental news for Rochester, New York. This site archives all stories on all the major environmental issues.
E-Wire Environmental Press Release Distribution E-Wire is the leading press release distribution service dedicated to environmental news, products and events. E-Wire uses a three-fold distribution to deliver your environment related news, research, services, and product information to major news organizations, publications, government agencies, databases and environmental professionals around the world.
The EnviroLink Network The EnviroLink Network links to news stories from leading publications and media sources around the world. We archive these stories for a limited time only.
The New York Times: Earth Science The science section of the New York Times online
Nature news highlights -news from Nature.com Nature magazine.

Capitol Reports, "Environmental Issues Report"
Environmental Yellow Pages - Local, National & International Environmental News
EarthJustice Press Releases. Earthjustice's flagship efforts to protect citizens and their environment have garnered substantial media coverage. Our expert litigators and policy analysts are frequently quoted in major newspapers and appear on television and radio news programs.
ENature.com and E Nature News. Bringing you important events, interesting facts and bizarre behavior from the natural world.
Planet Ark Welcome to Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. This service is brought to you courtesy of the Reuters news agency.
Environmental Working Group | Public Interest Watchdog Environmental investigations have been our specialty at the Environmental Working Group since 1993. Our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Our research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know. It shames and shakes up polluters and their lobbyists. It rattles politicians and shapes policy. It persuades bureaucracies to rethink science and strengthen regulation. It provides practical information you can use to protect your family and community.
Environment | csmonitor.com Christian Science Monitor, the environmental section.
EcoLinks The EcoLinks Program is one of several mechanisms that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) created to provide assistance in addressing environmental issues in the region of Europe and Eurasia (E&E). EcoLinks addresses solutions to environmental problems throughout the region by establishing lasting partnerships among environmental businesses, governments, and associations in the region, and between these organizations and their counterparts in the United States. The partners undertake projects that not only solve environmental problems but also help local participants adopt the best available environmental management practices and the most appropriate technologies.

3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress IUCN is a unique Union. Its members from some 140 countries include 77 States, 114 government agencies, and 800-plus NGOs. More than 10,000 internationally-recognised scientists and experts from more than 180 countries volunteer their services to its six global commissions. Its 1000 staff members in offices around the world are working on some 500 projects. For more than 50 years this ‘Green Web’ of partnerships has generated environmental conventions, global standards, scientific knowledge and innovative leadership.
Environmental Health News: Compiled by Environmental Health Sciences www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org is published daily by Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. EHS publishes 3 websites: www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org www.OurStolenFuture.org www.ProtectingOurHealth.org (in partnership with the Collaborative for Health and the Environment)

Friends of the Earth is a national environmental organization dedicated to preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future generations. As the largest international environmental network in the world with affiliates in 63 countries, Friends of the Earth empowers citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting their environment.
GreenBiz.com The nonprofit, nonpartisan GreenBiz.com works to harness the power of technology to bring environmental information, resources, and tools to the mainstream business community. Its principal mission is:" To provide clear, concise, accurate, and balanced information, resources, and learning opportunities to help companies of all sizes and sectors integrate environmental responsibility into their operations in a manner that combines ecological sustainability with profitable business practices." The Resource Center on the Environment, Business, and the bottom line. For complete environmental news, go to the News Center.
Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal Life on earth is imperiled by human degradation of the biosphere. Earth Island Institute develops and supports projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustain the environment. Through education and activism, these projects promote the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the Earth. Earth Island Institute (EII), founded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David Brower, fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. EII provides activists the freedom to develop program ideas, supported by services to help them pursue those ideas, with a minimum of bureaucracy (see our Staff Directory to contact members of our network services team).
Bureau of Land Management NEWS RELEASES ---U.S. Department of the Interior News Releases
NRDC: News from NRDC: The Earth's Best Defense
The Nation's Prevention Agency, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) In The News. Many of the diseases monitored by the CDC are from environmental factors.
Earth Vision--Great environmental news source with the top environmental news. This site includes a search engine for archived environmental news stories.
Earth Times This is a very comprehensive online magazine with many environmental news stories.
Environmental News from http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/4636/news.html
Basel Convention - http://www.ban.org/ban_news/ban_news.html, from Basel Action Network (BAN), an international network of activists seeking to put an end to the globalization of the toxic crisis. Our first goal is to end the export and dumping of hazardous wastes from rich industrialized countries to poorer, less-industrialized countries. (see Exporting Anguish, a photographic gallery of global dumping grounds.
Latest EPA News & EPA News & Events-- United States Environmental Protection Agency. Get the environmental news from the main U.S. agency that sets environmental policy.
National News Releases--U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
UniScience News Net, Inc. This is a major site for getting environmental news and should be one of your first stops. You can also Search UniSci Archives
Quickly Approaching over 1,000 Articles.
Space Science News from NASA. Mostly science and space here, but also some very excellent articles and links to daily environmental matters. And be sure to check out Nasa Climate News and Research.
Science News Online Science News is an award-winning weekly newsmagazine covering the most important research in all fields of science. Its 16 pages are packed with short, accurate articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists. Published since 1922, the magazine now reaches about 160,000 subscribers and more than 1 million readers.
Audubon News
Press Releases: Media Center: Greenpeace USA
Discovery Online, Discovery News Brief Get a full range of environmental news (including audio) from Discovery. Also, Earth Alert
Track natural disasters around the globe.
NEWS DIGEST From Capitol Reports, news links environmental.
NewsReal Industry Watch Click on environmental news and get the latest environmental news from the industry side.
NRDC Worldview Menu From EARTH ACTION The Bulletin for Environmental Activists
Bama Environmental News Welcome to Alabama's resource for environmental and statewide news. This site contains archived editions of the Bama Environmental News (BEN), and links to most of Alabama's newspapers, radios and TV stations.
The State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) The State PIRGs are a national, non-profit, non-partisan network of state-based, member-supported public interest watchdogs.
Environmental Working Group The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a leading content provider for public interest groups and concerned citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment.
EnviroLink News Service
Green Energy News: Green Energy News is a free access information source for news relating to clean, efficient and renewable energy, its applications, technology and relevant issues.
WWF - News from the World Wildlife Federation.
Daily Science News from Academic Press and Science Magazine "INSCiGHT is a joint project of AAAS' Science Magazine, the most important scientific weekly, and ACADEMIC PRESS, one of the world's foremost STM publishers. The Science newsroom will produce daily news stories from the world of scientific research that will be marked up and published by ACADEMIC PRESS on its APnet website." Along with each story are extensive resources for them.
Environment, business, health: The Earth Times Daily Web Edition "Environment. Business. Health. Population. Human Rights. Worldwide News and Social Issues Daily on the Web" Get the environmental news here: The Earth Times/Environment/Current-news on the environment, development, population and current affairs from Africa, The America's, Asia and Europe
Discovery Online, Earth Alert Get your fix of natural and man-made disasters right here, along with the background you need to put news of our evolving planet in perspective.
News on NRDC Online World view news, from Natural Resources Defense Council.
The Earth Times Daily Web Edition: Environment, business, health
Environmental Services News From Yahoo, plus a search news engine.
DAILY ECO UPDATES - Environmental News From SIERRA CLUB.
NEWS DIGEST from Capitol Reports / Environmental News Link
LEGISLATIVE WATCH: the Bulletin on Environmental Legislation from NRDC The Bulletin on Environmental Legislation.
IGC: EcoNet EcoNet™: working to support ecological sustainability and environmental justice. EcoNet is the largest and oldest online environmental organization.
PlanetDiary PlanetDiary records the events and phenomena that affect Earth and its residents. Every week, this site presents geological, astronomical, meteorological, biological, and environmental news from around the globe.
New Scientist News
Wilderness Society News. --from the Wilderness Society.
Environmental Background Reports. --Online NewsHour
Tide.Pool News for the Rain Forest Coast.
News from ISyndicate:
Welcome to Stateline.org The mission of stateline.org is to bring about greater public awareness of what's happening in the states. If you are a journalist, we invite you to register for free access to the Press Center. Doing so will allow you to view Web pages displaying a range of services designed to assist your reporting including telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of experts willing to be interviewed and other state government reporters looking to exchange ideas.
CorpWatch.org CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization--a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Co-op America Newsroom Co-op America's mission is to harness economic power -- the strength of consumers, businesses and the marketplace -- to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Reason
Co-op America focuses on economic and business strategies because, in our industrial age, the economic sector dominates public and private life. Business is its primary player. If we want a society that respects people and the planet, we need to change the way society does business

News from the National Academies of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Bruce Alberts is the president of the National Academy of Sciences.
New Scientist.com - The World's No. 1 Science and Technology News Service NewScientist.com is your ultimate science and technology website.
Environmental Journalism Center RTNDF's Environmental Journalism Center offers some of the timeliest and most relevant industry research and information available on environmental science and health issues.
National Geographic News: Environment
Naturalist News - Late-breaking environmental news from around the world. --from naturalist.com guide to environment
Earth Island Institute: News Room Earth Island Institute (EII), founded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David Brower, fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. EII provides activists the freedom to develop program ideas, supported by services to help them pursue those ideas, with a minimum of bureaucracy (see our Staff Directory to contact members of our network services team). Earth Island's Project Network consists of more than 30 projects worldwide (see our Project Directory for program and contact information). Through innovative education and activist campaigns, we are addressing many of the most pressing social and environmental issues:

Multimedia and alternate ways to get Environmental News through the Internet

Welcome to FWS Online Video Welcome to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's multimedia portal offering a wide variety of video and audio products.
Earthjustice: Video News Releases Earthjustice now has video footage available for reporters on topics including salmon, ancient forests, environmental racism, red wolves, grizzly bears, Steller sea lions, monk seals, and others. Contact our media department for more information
Listen to the latest 'Pulse of the Planet' radio broadcast. This needs RealPlayer G2 available via Planet Ark - listen to the show in mono 28kbps or stereo 56kbps formats:
GreenWorks.tv GreenWorks' mission is to spread one simple message: real people are making a difference to protect our environment-and you can, too! Through a combination of new and old media technologies, we share informative and entertaining stories that explain the many roles that individuals play in caring for our world. By doing so, GreenWorks inspires people every day to take part in the effort to make our planet a cleaner, healthier and happier place for everyone
FutureWatch is a radio and television program that focuses on issues related to science, technology, and the environment; FutureWatch also publishes a bi-weekly newspaper column.
GLRC The Great Lakes Radio Consortium is a news service committed to revealing the relationship between the natural world and the everyday lives of people in the Great Lakes region. This is accomplished by thoughtful and provocative explorations of the environment in a way that reaches the widest possible audience.
ECOVISION Listen to and watch some of the leading environmental news programs.
Living On Earth Tune into this great environmental program on WXXI's 1370 AM radio each Saturday at 4PM (EST). Or, get the entire audio program from the Internet.
From Enn.com, ENN Multimedia a top environmental site's multimedia branch.
E-Town - weekly public radio program, heard throughout the USA
Earth & Sky - daily science radio series heard on over 950 commercial and public stations
Earth News - environmental facts heard on public and commercial stations throughout the USA
Man and the Environment - weekly English-language environment program of Radio Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcasting service. The programm takes a global perspective and has a special focus on the environment in Germany
NatureWatch - 90 second daily feature on public radio
Quicks and Quarks - weekly radio show from Canada
Allegheny Front - weekly public radio program dealing with environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania
Earth Advocate - global environmental news for the central California coast
EarthWatch Radio - 5 programs per week, a production of the Sea Grant Institute and the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Emerald Radio - radio station run by students at the Springwell Community School in England
Florida Environment - daily radio feature on Florida public radio stations, produced at Florida Gulf Coast University
High Plains News Service - weekly public radio program dealing with environmental issues in the Plains' states
Arctic Refuge Video from PIRG
Earth Cafe Television for a Sustainable Future - A series of thirty-minute programs designed to present environmental information in an entertaining format
National Public Radio Including search their archives.
Pacifica Network News
Public Broadcasting Service
Pulse of the Planet - 2 minute sound portraits of planet Earth
The Green Scene
Media Main - Press Room - Sierra Club Audio/Video Ads and Press Releases
GreenWave.com - Adventures in Natural Capitalism GreenWave.com is your site for information on The Next Industrial Revolution. This revolution is about investing in our natural capital, increasing resource efficiency, and designing a future that produces no waste or pollution, while maximizing profits. GreenWave Radio, hosted by Carey and Chandler, is the voice for The Next Industrial Revolution.
Breaking Environmental Stories Green Media Toolshed is a nonprofit project of the Tides Center, established in 2000. Our mission is to provide media-related tools and information to our members - environmental nonprofits - so that they can more effectively project their messages to the public and decision-makers. Green Media Toolshed is dependent on funding from members and foundations to support our activities.
WWF Tip of the Day The World Wide Fund For Nature site provides a environmental tip each day.
Earth Vision: environmental resources, inform... Visit the Sustainability Neighborhood, or the Business and Technology Neighborhood, and learn more about the environment, the latest government policies, get the top news stories, and even do an environmental crossword puzzle.
Read about environmental ideas, solutions, discussions, ask questions and respond in sci.environment newsgroup. This has been a good resource for much of the information I have gathered for this web site. I thank all those who responded to my calls for help in this newsgroup.
REC EnviroNews Home Page Environmental news from around the world.
The Earth Times/News Sections Directory from EarthTimes Daily on the web. This is a good place to find environmental news around the world.
Ecotopics: An international, editorial news publication covering ecology, environmental concerns, human rights, and agriculture
Earth First! Online Publications From Earth First!, a list of places around the world to gather environmental news.
NET News "Each week, the National Environmental Trust (formerly Environmental Information Center) and WebActive bring you NET News, the latest in environmental news and policy. You'll stay on top of developments both inside the DC Beltway and beyond."

Major Newspapers & Services with Environmental News

BBC Online go to BBC News | Sci/Tech. --Also The Green Room
CNN - Science - Technology At this site, CNN has articles on all kinds of news on environmentalism. CNN - Science - Technology Earth, environment, ecology, nature, etc.
Business Journal - Environmental Issues
The Christian Science Monitor Using this great paper's archives, and using the text version, you can look for articles going back to 1980. If you type in "environment" you get 9930 articles.
USA TODAY - Search Go here and choose "life" and type: Earth, environment, ecology, nature...
Los Angeles Times Environment News. Every major digital newspaper should have a section like this.
GSENET Home There lots environmental news at Garden State EnviroNews for each day of the week, action alerts, EPA news briefs, and more.
Telegraph newspaper online -- Earth - Telegraph

Major Environmental News E-mail Services (Have environmental news sent to your e-mail)

Grist Magazine | Grist By Email Grist is an online environmental magazine. Our credo: Pull no punches, take no prisoners, eschew the wealth and fame that so often seduce online environmental journalists. And try to have a better sense of humor than a pack of fur protesters.
Environmental Health News: Compiled by Environmental Health Sciences www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org is published daily by Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. EHS publishes 3 websites: www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org www.OurStolenFuture.org www.ProtectingOurHealth.org (in partnership with the Collaborative for Health and the Environment)
Grist One of my favorite ways to get a daily synopsis of the major environmental stories. Although they attempt humor on the most important issues of our day, they do provide a very pithy and comprehensive daily environmental news service.
Environmental Journalism Tip Sheet: TipSheet provides biweekly news tips to notify journalists of potential environmental stories
and sources.
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA): News and Updates EIA runs a comprehensive news service for journalists.
Enviro-NewsBrief, from the EPA.
Join up and receive E-mail Updates from The National Environmental Trust -- The Environmental Action Network for the 21st Century
Zero Emissions Research Initiative - http://www.zeri.org/news.htm
Enviro-Newsbrief is a daily update providing summaries of news articles pertaining to EPA and general governmental issues. It includes information from current news sources: newspapers, newsletters, and other publications.
Campaign for Food Safety/Organic Consumers Association 860 Hwy 61Little Marais, Mn. 55614 Tel. 218-226-4164 Fax 218-226-4157 email alliance@mr.net http://www.purefood.org Affiliated with the Center for Food Safety (Washington, D.C.) www.icta.org To subscribe to the free electronic newsletter, Food Bytes, send an email to: majordomo@mr.net with the simple message: subscribe pure-food-action
From EDF -- Environmental Defense Fund WorldWide, start receiving your own copy of EDF DISPATCH and at the same time win a Free Calendar, just fill in this simple form on the web: http://www.edf.org/Join4Free/
How to subscribe to GREENLines Receive environmental news each day here. This site also has an extensive archive of Defenders of Wildlife's daily postings.
Lycos Environment News You can read the postings above from ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS) or have them sent directly to your E-mail address.
ENN Environment News Network is about the largest and best. Get the news directly to your e-mail.
RACHEL HOME PAGE Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly. Find the latest about insecticides and other poisons in our environment. This site on the Internet is become a major source of breaking environmental news. Go to Peter Montegue’s Rachel’s Environment and Health Weekly - http://www.monitor.net/rachel/
Contact the WWF Press Office: is a place where you can get news reports sent to your e-mail.
Welcome to the Environmental Science Supersite Get the latest environmental news through your e-mail, or read the latest news online.
Planet Ark Home Page is a place you can check everyday for environmental news. At this site you can also registered for environmental news that comes straight to your e-mail. Listen, if you have RealPlayer Plus to Pulse of the Planet. Go to the main menu to see all the service this site provides.
Edie.net Welcome to Edie's state-of-the-art reference library for professionals in the environment and water sectors. All library services are free of charge, but visitors must register as edie users to gain access to all facilities.

Environmental Podcasts

GLRC A weekly roundup of environmental news from the Great Lakes Radio Consortium. To have each week's Environment Report automatically downloaded to your mp3 player, see our podcasting help page.
Earthwatch Radio Podcast Earthwatch Radio is produced by staff and students at the Sea Grant Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We cover a wide range of subjects that concern science and the environment and give special attention to global climate change, the Great Lakes and the oceans. We produce five programs every week and distribute them to more than 125 radio stations and other broadcast outlets, mostly in North America. For more information about the program, contact:
Renewable Energy Access - Source For Renewable Energy News and Information - Renewable Energy Access Podcasts
Living on Earth: Sound Journalism for the Whole Planet Living on Earth offers a podcast feed of the current show. The url is: http://www.loe.org/podcast.rss
NET.org >> The National Environmental Trust The National Environmental Trust is a non-profit, non-partisan organization established in 1994 to inform citizens about environmental problems and how they affect our health and quality of life. Check out our campaigns and special reports (links to the left) to learn about the issues on which we currently focus. http://www.net.org/newsroom/audiovideo.vtml
NPR : National Public Radio : News, Arts, World, US. - NPR: Environment [NPR] Environmental science and reporting on issues from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning NPR programs.
Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive - Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive - Audio and Podcasting
Sierra Club Radio Main - Sierra Club Saving the planet starts at home -- so many Americans are looking for ways to make their own lives more "green." That's why we're launching Sierra Club Radio. Our mission is to offer tips and tell stories we all can use as consumers, as citizens, as neighbors, and as parents to make responsible choices, to connect to the growing environmental community. Sierra Club Radio Main - Sierra Club
NOAA Home Page - Podcasts These are short reports on NOAA science and research. They are in mp3 files for easy downloads to desktop and laptops, as well as mobile devices capable of playing these files. You also can listen to these programs by simply clicking on the link.
Greenpeace Podcasts | Greenpeace International Here's the complete contents of the Greenpeace Audio & Video podcast. To subscribe to the Greenpeace Podcast via iTunes and your iPod device, just open iTunes

Environmental Blogs