an online publication that is a single, comprehensive and authoritative source of information on the effects of climate change and man's activities on the biosphere

NASA provides a comprehensive directory about Earth science and global change data; containing descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research

scientific effort to predict the effects of changes in climate, atmospheric composition, and land use on terrestrial ecosystems, and resultant feedbacks to the atmosphere and climate system

a worldwide scientific community that advances, through unselfish cooperation in research, the understanding of Earth and space for the benefit of humanity

global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs - men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems

carries out interdisciplinary research and education related to the role of the Arctic in the Earth system, and to stimulate and facilitate global change research; at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Columbia University's, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences

a global think tank bringing together global leaders to act as a global catalyst of change on the complex set of the most crucial problems – political, social, economic, technological, environmental, psychological and cultural - facing humanity

organizes and promotes collaborative interdisciplinary research on the nature, causes and impacts of environmental change and contributes to management strategies for future environmental change

a UNEP program that provides a scientifically based communication tool for mapping, at large scale, the likelihood of human impacts on the biosphere resulting from increasing growth in resource utilization

conducts basic research in space and Earth sciences, addressing changes in our environment that affect the habitability of our planet

seeks to understand the Earth system better to enhance human health, safety and welfare, alleviate human suffering including poverty, protect the global environment, reduce disaster losses, and achieve sustainable development

a comprehensive map of the world, showing how human beings directly influence more than three quarters of the earth's landmass

an interdisciplinary organization that conducts research, independent policy analysis, and public communication on issues of global environmental change

describing and predicting changes in the Earth's environment, and conserving and wisely managing the Nation's coastal and marine resources

promotes research that contributes to an improved understanding of global change, how this effects different resources (human, natural, economic), and societal responses

devoted to multi-disciplinary research and education on human-induced environmental change that is either global in nature or pervasive across the world

conducts inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change

GreenFacts provides current scientific information on ecosytem change, structured in 3 levels of increasing detail

provides access to data and information on global environmental change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change related educational resources

seeks a whole-system understanding of the interrelationships among earth surface processes, ecological systems, and human activities so that future environmental changes and impacts can be anticipated