ENVI 40 - Critical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning for the Environment (Martin, Fall 2025): Energy and Environment Data

The DOE Data Explorer manages and consolidates the Department of Energy's data projects, collections, and datasets. It ensures important data is properly stored, processed, and made available for reuse. Centers may be physical or only online, like the Alternative Fuels Data Center. They typically maintain raw, original scientific data and make it accessible through customized databases, toolkits, or statistics, usually free of charge

The United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects, analyzes, and shares independent energy information to support sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its effects on the economy and environment.

The IEA is the world’s most authoritative and comprehensive source of energy data, supporting decision makers around the world, including government officials, the private sector, civil society and beyond.

EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 18,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.[/no-glossary]

The Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) is the Department of Energy's (DOE) electronic database comprised of health studies of DOE contract workers and environmental studies of areas surrounding DOE facilities. DOE recognizes the benefits of data sharing and supports the public's right to know about worker and community health risks. CEDR provides independent researchers and the public with access to de-identified data collected since the Department's early production years. Current CEDR holdings include more than 76 studies of over 1 million workers at 31 DOE sites. Access to these data is at no cost to the user.

Large repository of datasets for the sciences. Search for data by keyword, subject area (agriculture, climate indicator, etc.), instrument, platform, location, or provider.

Resources include the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, the World Environment Situation Room, Open Data, and Strata: Custom Climate Security Analytics.

NSIDC archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data and also maintains information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores.

The EDG is a gateway which facilitates discovery of geospatial and non-geospatial data resources made available by EPA's Program Offices, Regions, and Laboratories.