This site provides information about efforts to keep the lakes clean for the people, animals, and plants that depend on them.

The Great Lakes Commission is an interstate compact agency that promotes the orderly, integrated and comprehensive development, use and conservation of the water and related natural resources of the Great Lakes basin and St. Lawrence River. Its members include the eight Great Lakes states with associate member status for the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec.

Provides access to the government's scientific and technological information.

Try going to the "Learn the Issues" tab on this site to learn more about water, air, climate, wastes & pollution, green living, human health, and ecosystems.

This site provides information about efforts to keep the lakes clean for the people, animals, and plants that depend on them.

The USGS is a science organization that provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, the natural hazards that threaten us, the natural resources we rely on, [and] the impacts of climate and land-use change.

"We provide science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods; the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on; the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Our scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes."

Greenpeace takes action for ground-breaking change to protect the environment. We take our message direct to the polluters and politicians. We are steadfast in our principles and put action behind our words.

The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Our mission is to conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource using policy, education and local efforts, ensuring a healthy Great Lakes and clean water for generations of people and wildlife.

Goals are to promote, preserve and protect the natural and historical environments of the Buffalo Niagara waterways for the benefit of the local community.

Established on November 3, 2006 by a group of about 40 Western New York residents who saw first-hand the devastation done to our beautiful Western New York living resource -- our trees -- and decided to take action to re-forest every public area that was destroyed by the freak October 12-13 snowstorm.