The World Health Organization's Web site has a number of sections that might be of value to environmental reporters. The first is the Library database (WHOLIS), which indexes all WHO publications from 1948 and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present. The advanced search options allow searches by word or phrase, author, title, subject, series, periodic title, or ISBN-ISSN. It also gives a choice of 19 languages, various formats, and publication years. Typing in a keyword brings up a list of publications which gives the option of keeping a selection or viewing more details, and in some cases, linking directly to the full text.

The second tool is the Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) for health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information. This includes an organization-wide compilation of the most recent estimates for almost 50 world health indicators for 192 countries, as recent as 2005. The statistics as available by country or region, by topic, disease or condition, including HIV/AIDS, drug information, immunization, health personnel, population, micronutrients, alcohol, maternal mortality, etc. It has statistical measures relating to the burden of disease, including Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE); Life Expectancy; Discussion Papers.

A third tool is the Geographic Information Tools, including communicable disease surveillance and response and public health mapping, evidence and information for health policy, global atlas of infectious diseases, PAHO/AMRO SIG-Epi, and vaccines and biologicals. Recognizing that epidemics and newly-emerging infections are more mobile than ever, this tool is intended to help nations detect, verify, and respond rapidly.

The fourth tool is the Media Center. WHO produces a variety of photo, video, audio, and Flash animation files that are available for use. WHO multimedia is sorted by the following criteria: health topics, WHO events, and Inside WHO.