Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field. <a href="/issue16">issue16</a> July 1998 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/500/author-info">phil cross</a>