Astronomy

• The Aurora Page: "information, links and images about 'the Northern Lights."

• Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

• Royal Observatory Greenwich

Science and Technology

• The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress

• Antique Spectacles & Other Vision Aids

• Ask a Scientist!

• Bad Science: an attempt by Professor Alistair Fraser to debunk the misconceptions of well-understood phenomena perpetuated by teachers and writers.

• The Chymistry of Isaac Newton

• The Cloud Appreciation Society

• DNA Interactive

• Einstein Archives Online

• Encyclopedia of Life

• Exploring Leonardo

• Extreme Science

• Eye of Science: scientific photographs

• Flights of Inspiration

• Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS)

• Great Idea Finder

• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century

• How Stuff Works

• Improbable Research: awarder of the Ig Nobel Prizes

• Ingenious:  brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into science and culture

• Last word: science questions and answers from New Statesman

• Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation

• Nature: subscription service with limited  free access

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics

• Royal Society: now includes Trailblazing: three and a half centuries of Royal Society publishing [unavailable at last check]

• Scientific American

• Sense about Science: promoting good science and evidence for the public

• Thomas A. Edison Papers

• Tsunami!

• Victorian Science

• Your Amazing Brain

Environment and Conservation

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

• Air Pollution Bulletins (UK)

• ARKive: images and sounds of threatened wildlife

• Ashton Hayes: Going Carbon Neutral Project: a Cheshire community aims to be England's first carbon neutral village

• Avibase-The World Bird Database

• Bat Conservation International

• Bat Conservation Trust

• Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture

• Cheshire County Council: Environment Links

• Earthday Network

• European Environment Agency

• Environment Agency of England and Wales: includes flood maps

• Enviropedia: more than 300 pages of information about the environment.

• Food Future: balancing the debate on genetic modification in food and farming

• Friends of the Earth (FOE)

• Genetically Modified Food: UK and World News

• Genewatch UK: monitors developments in genetic technologies from a public interest, environmental protection and animal welfare perspective.

• Global Warming: Early Warning Signs

• Homecheck: check your address for possible environmental risks

• International Union for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN)

• Letsrecycle.com

• National Resources Defense Council (US)

• Natural England: aims to to conserve and enhance the natural environment for its intrinsic value, the wellbeing and enjoyment of people and the economic prosperity that it brings

• Scottish Natural Heritage

• UK Air Quality Archive

• UK Air Pollution Bulletin

• US Environmental Protection Agency: includes National Environmental Publications Information System

Nature

• Animal Sounds

• Arkive: images of life on earth

• BBC Natural History

• Beautiful Britain: includes plans for bird boxes

• Birds of Britain : online journal

• Birdwatching guide to the Dee Estuary

• British Garden Birds

• British Library: Listen to Nature

• British Trust for Ornithology

• British Hedgehog Preservation Society

• Cheshire Wildlife Trust

• The Complete Morris's British Birds 1891

• Know your Birds

• Life of Birds

• Minsmere: R.S.P.B. Reserve

• RSPCA

• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: includes audio and video clips

• Rutland Water Wildlife Reserve

• Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital

• Wild West Yorkshire

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