Biology: Encyclopedias

Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Earth, a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goals are to: Create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike; transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating virtually all known data about every living species; engage a wide audience of schoolchildren, educators, citizen scientists, academics and those who are just curious about Earth's species; and increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.