The exciting field of biology is a vast area of study that ranges from molecular biology to astrobiology.  It is likely that new discoveries and explanations for how life operates are being made just as you read this.   Regular review of the sources below help keep one on the “cutting edge” of biology where:  new and exciting discoveries are being made; heated debates rage within the scientific community; unknown far-out facts are made known; scientific knowledge is being applied to various social, environmental or political purposes; and, perhaps, THE secret of the universe is discovered!

National Academy of Sciences  http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer

National Science Digital Library  http://nsdl.org/

National Science Foundation News  http://www.nsf.gov/news/

Royal Society  http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/landing.asp

Third World Academy of Sciences   http://www.twas.org/

Union of Concerned Scientists   http://www.ucsusa.org/

American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science  http://www.aaas.org/

American Philosophical Society  http://www.amphilsoc.org

Blue Dolphin Alliance  http://www.bluedolphin.org/

Center for Bioethics  http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/

Environmental Careers Organization  http://www.eco.org/

International Society for Reef Studies  http://www.fit.edu/isrs

North American Native Fishes Association http://www.nanfa.org/

Ocean Futures  http://www.oceanfutures.org/

Society for the Study of Evolution  http://www.evolutionsociety.org

Wildlife Society  http://www.wildlife.org/

Discover: Science, Technology & the Future   (library holds January 1997 to present)

E: the environment magazine   (library holds January 1997 to present)

Natural History   (library holds January 1997 to present)

Nature Conservancy   (library holds November/December 1999 to present)

National Wildlife   (library holds January 1997 to present)

Orion   (library holds November/December 2006 to present)

Permaculture   (library holds Summer 2006 to present)

Popular Science   (library holds January 1997 to present)

Scientific American   (library holds January 1997 to present)

Yes   (library holds Spring 2005 to present)