Facing Extinction but Not Endangered
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can declare animals to be at risk of extinction, but doesn’t have the resources to make them be officially endangered.
Not to be a Pest, but Save the Bats!
The best insect-control in the U.S. is worth nearly $4 billion a year to farmers, but costs nothing to run. It uses no sprays, chemicals or machinery.
A Forest of Blue
They call it the Forest of Blue, and the world’s water keeper – the greatest single storehouse of unfrozen fresh water in the world. It’s not a lake, or a river. It’s the boreal forest of Canada.
When the Earth Twitches
Instead of taking up a way of living that’s in harmony with the Earth, we’re always busy trying to take dominion over it. We want to be masters of the universe, but we’re not even masters of our own neighborhoods.
40 Years of Dumping Nets $9 Billion Fine
Texaco dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic materials into directly into Amazon basin rivers. Animals died, people got cancer, and crops were damaged.
Moon and Venus over Switzerland
Sometimes a morning sky can be both serene and surreal. Such a sky perhaps existed before sunrise as viewed from a snowy slope in Switzerland
Paradise Bay, Antarctica
On a fine midsummer day – January 14th, 2011 – at the edge of Antarctica, a glaciated mountain casts its reflection in the calm but icy waters of Paradise Bay
What’s Happening to Our Bats?
A disease that has wiped out more than a million bats in the eastern United States is now rapidly spreading west. Experts say the little brown bat is a keystone species that we have to save
Cyclone Yasi and Snowstorm America
As the biggest summer storm on record slams into Australia, the U.S. is battered by a huge winter storm with record amounts of snow across the continent
Yosemite in Winter
A park webcam captures light and shade on El Capitan, the great granitic monolith at left, and on Half Dome at center, two of the world’s best known rock formations
Polar Bear’s Longest Swim
A polar bear swims 426 miles non-stop for nine consecutive days in search of food – a record beyond anything ever seen or imagined. Why won’t the federal government list polar bears as endangered?
It’s Cold. It’s Hot. Weathering Heights
It’s been snowing in at least 49 states. What’s up? More headline stories about the environment in “This Week in Green”
Face to Face
Hungarian photographer Bence Máté was one of the winners in the 2010 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year photo contest with this photo of a hummingbird having a “face to face” meeting with a green snake
Australia Flood Called Disaster of Biblical Proportions
Floods could last for at least another month. Water continues to rise in parts of the state, and the city of Rockhampton is almost entirely cut off, with roads impassable and the airport under water. Animals are stranded. The worst may yet be to come
Animals in the Australia Floods
People who care about animals in the flood-ravaged Australian city of Rockhampton are being asked to take in pets left behind by those who are fleeing…
Environmental Civil War over Art
A massive and controversial new art project … plastic trash in the Mediterranean … four states launch new recycling efforts … and how old Christmas trees and other plants could be a good new kind of green power. All the latest from This Week in Green.
Hyena at Sunrise
The Earth in pics – Dec. 27 By Grégoire Bouguereau French photographer Grégoire Bouguereau watched a herd of hyenas for days at this water hole in…
Coming In from Cold on Climate Change
With winter storms making headlines, did global warming take a holiday? Is the science confused? In fact, it’s so cold and so piled high with snow in parts of the globe precisely because of global warming. An expert explains the paradox.
Unwelcome Sequel to “Erin Brockovich”
We’ve seen this movie before. It was a sad story 10 years ago, and in this dark and sobering real-life sequel, the activist warns us that our water supply is in danger
Leaked Documents May Explain Bee Crisis
Did the EPA allow the widespread use of a pesticide that’s poisonous to bees despite warnings from the agency’s own scientists? And is this the cause…