Get Out Your Biggest Umbrella!
For anyone who still has their ostrich head buried in the snow, here’s yet another study saying that the climate is changing and even more wacky weather is on the way.
How Seven Billion Humans Leads to Mass Extinction
This week, the world population reached 7 billion people eking out a living. By the end of the century, it will top 10 billion. Overpopulation and overconsumption are the root causes of the environmental destruction of our planet.
New Study Confirms Climate Change
A new study, funded and supervised in part by climate skeptics, confirms what most scientists have been concluding for a long time: the planet is heating up.
Situation Worsens at New Zealand Oil Spill
Oil continues to spill from the cargo ship that ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand two weeks ago. The ship continues to list and fears are that it may break in two.
World’s Largest Shark Sanctuary
The Marshall Islands are now home to the world’s largest shark sanctuary, an area of the central Pacific Ocean four times the size of California.
Twenty-Four Hours of Reality
The disaster that is climate change knows no party lines. September 14-15, the Climate Reality Project is broadcasting “24 Hours of Reality” on its website.
The Moon’s North Pole
This photo, by NASA, is actually a composite of 983 individual photos taken at close range by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and carefully stitched together.
Too Many for Noah’s Ark!
If they were heading two by two into his legendary ark, Noah would have needed space for more than 17 million animals, less than 2 million of them have ever been seen.
Yet Another Billion-Dollar Climate Disaster
So far this year, there have been 10 billion-dollar disasters – more than in any previous year in U.S. history. Hurricane Irene could top the charts.
Perry: No Man-Made Global Warming
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who just threw his hat in the ring as a GOP presidential candidate, told voters he does not believe in man-made global warming.
The Secret World of Life in the Forest
The Global Camera Trap Mammal Study took nearly 52,000 photos of 105 species from protected areas in Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Laos, Suriname, Tanzania and Uganda.
Skip the Plastic, Save the Turtles
A new study from Earthwatch in Queensland looked at the guts of over 120 dead turtles found in Moreton Bay. Dr. Kathy Townsend found plastic rubbish in over 30 per cent of them.
Clean Your Boat but Save the Ocean
People cleaning their boatsinvolves chemical products that drain off into the ocean and are highly toxic to the fish and other animals.
Rescuers Defy Authorities at Nuclear Plant
Japanese family calls themselves animal rescue guerrillas The Hoshi family on one of their rescue raids at the dead zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant Hiroshi…
Climate Change: Scientists Certain, Public Not Much
Why is it, when 97 percent of American scientists (and most of their peers worldwide) have no doubt that the Earth’s climate is changing and largely because of us humans, that only about half of us are “very sure” that it’s happening?
Wikileaks Reveals Arctic Land Grab
Most think of Arctic melting as an unfolding disaster, many governments and corporations see it as a great opportunity to drill for oil and mine for resources.
Better than Soda Cans & Plastic Bottles
We’ve all seen the photos of birds caught up in plastic trash in the ocean. Over 80 percent of plastic water and soda bottles in the US are still not recycled.
Hope for the Little Brown Bat
With bats facing disaster, and agriculture in danger as a result, some of the world’s top bat experts have been meeting this week to come up with a rescue plan.
Exploding Melons Are No Joke
It sounds almost comic: Fields full of watermelons blowing up … seeds flying like shrapnel. In fact, it’s just the latest serious example of dangerous farming in China.
Flying High
Deep in red rock country, just to the north of the Grand Canyon, an egg has just hatched, and today a California condor chick is 1 week old. It’s cause for celebration.