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Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites

Lists current hazardous waste sites by state, city, and company with brief event, financial, and enforcement information
National Priorities List provides extensive summaries of targeted cleanup sites, new and deleted sites, and statistics
A separate web page provides professionals and the public with risk assessment calculators

Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 2,000 Years (National Academy of Sciences)

U.S. Climate Change Science Program

Federal interagency organization which integrates research on global and U.S. climate change as well as environmental, human, and economic factors
Its first report, Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere was released on May 2, 2006
- Resolves discrepancy between changes in the upper and lower atmostphere
- Global warming in part caused by human influences in the atmosphere

United Nations Division for Sustainable Development

Social, economic, natural resource, and institutional (patents, newspapers, broadcasting) statistics for individual countries
Country plans specifically outlining how will monitor sustainable development in those four areas
Some reports in the language of the country

University of Michigan Digital Spatial Data Catalog

Provides metadata for online and CD-ROM resources at the University of Michigan for GIS
Indexes datasets from the National Atlas, ESRI, Michigan Geographic Data Library, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, and University of Michigan Library
Use specific subjects (e.g. population, cancer, butterflies) with broader geographies (states, counties) to identify datasets

Urban Environmental Management

Numerous worldwide reports on managing the urban environment (population, air pollution, disease, pests)
Brief statistics on megacity population projections, current world population, ecological capacity of nations

Water Resources in the United States

Statistics on water supply, water use, and acid rain found as tables in the text of its reports
Search engine also available

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

World Resources Institute

Conference papers, working papers, and statistics on sustainable development worldwide
Numerous statistical tables in Adobe Acrobat format with country data on the environment, fisheries, forestry, water, weather, and pesticide use
Earth Trends database and its Agricultural Database are the richest sources of statistics

World Wildlife Federation