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World Bank - Climate Change Data
The World Bank provides free and open data on development indicators. This is their page aggregating climate change data. Includes links to other resources and data on an array of climate indicators.
IPCC: Data Distribution Centre
The DDC provides climate, socio-economic and environmental data, both from the past and also in scenarios projected into the future. Technical guidelines on the selection and use of different types of data and scenarios in research and assessment are also provided.
Climate Change Knowledge Portal
The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) Beta is a central hub of information, data and reports about climate change around the world. Here you can query, map, compare, chart and summarize key climate and climate-related information.

Science Database This link opens in a new window
STEM articles from 1986 to present, from hundreds of journals in both the applied and general sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary subject searching of scholarly articles in the social sciences (1898-present) physical & life sciences (1899 to present), and arts & humanities (1975 to present). Search for articles that cite known journal articles or books.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search engine for scholarly literature in all disciplines; link to fulltext articles in Wellesley-licensed databases.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Offers citations and abstracts of political science literature, including international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public administration/policy.
Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of public policy topics, linking to reports and papers from think tanks, NGOs, and research organizations, 1990 to present.
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
US and foreign newspapers, 1980s to present (dates of coverage vary). Also includes legal encyclopedias & legal analysis, federal and state court cases and statutes, and law reviews, 1789 to present.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the international body for assessing
the science related to climate change. It publishes reports on the state of the science, predictions, ways to mitigate climate change, etc.
World Bank - Climate Change
The World Bank topic page on Climate Change.
UN Sustainable Development Goal on Climate Change
A site covering some basics around the SDG on Climate Change.
Union of Concerned Scientists
Our scientists and engineers develop and implement innovative, practical solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems—from combating global warming and developing sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves, to fighting misinformation, advancing racial equity, and reducing the threat of nuclear war.
Center for Climate Systems Research
This is the official administrative vehicle for the cooperative relationship between Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. GISS/CCSR was established with the objective of providing an enhanced understanding of the Earth’s climate sensitivity and variability, as well as the forcing and feedback mechanisms that control them.

UN Climate Change Newsroom
Stories on the Newsroom are written by UNFCCC staff.
Global Newsstream
Enables users to search the most recent global news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980s – from over 2,500 news sources. Large collection of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
One of the largest collections of US newspapers, many in full text, as well as news sites, blogs, and newswires from the 1980s to the present (dates vary by title). Includes The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses, 1960 to present.
Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new window
Articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press, 1995 to present.