About Encyclopedia of Earth NCSE's public education strategic
goal is to provide access to a comprehensive source of
understandable science-based information on the Internet. To
achieve this, NCSE catalyzed the creation and operation of the
Environmental Information Coalition (EIC) in 2003 for the many
organizations, agencies, institutions, and experts who can
contribute to achieving this goal. NCSE serves as the
secretariat to the EIC. The EIC launched the Encyclopedia of
Earth in 2006 as a free, fully searchable online resource on the
Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with
society. A global community of over 1,400 scholars, educators
and professionals from 60 countries collaborate to produce
quality and reliable environmental information for the web.
Information includes articles, books, reports and curriculum
resources that are written in non-technical language and
available in various media formats, which are accessible and
useful to students, educators, professionals, and policy make