Astronomy

• The Aurora Page: "information, links and images about 'the Northern Lights."
• 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
• The Hoover Dam
• 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
• 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 Biodiversity
• Cheshire County Council: Environment Links
• Earthday Network: includes Ecological Footprint Quiz
• 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
• Global Climate Change Student Information Guide
• 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
• Biodiversity: from Naturegrid: Canterbury Environmental Education Centre
• 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: includes many useful links
• The Complete Morris's British Birds 1891
• Know your Birds
• Life of Birds
• Minsmere: R.S.P.B. Reserve
• Naturegrid: Canterbury Environmental Education Centre
• Nature Picture Library
• Nature sounds from the BBC
• RSPCA
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: includes audio and video clips
• Rutland Water Wildlife Reserve
• BirdLife International: State of the World's Birds
• Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital
• Wild West Yorkshire

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