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In Pele’s Shadow Iron Oxide Comes to Life
Rust Villages of the Deep: In Pele’s Shadow, Iron Oxide, or Rust, Comes to Life Elaborate Hawaiian seamount structures built by iron-oxidizing microbes Loihi Seamount and its “rust villages”:...
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Gorilla Tourism
Seeing the Mountain Gorillas Up Close By Sarah Abdelrahim Courtesy of Voices of Biodiversity I was originally doubtful about going to see the mountain gorillas. After living in Kenya for some time, I...
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How Water Intensive Food Choices Impact California’s Drought
By Ian Creelman As the record setting California drought continues, people across the state are applying the rule of thumb, “If it’s brown, flush it down; if it’s yellow, let it mellow,” taking shorter...
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Does Organic Make Food Better For You?
By Danielle Nierenberg and Maia Reed Courtesy of Food Tank Organic and agroecological farming methods typically build healthier soils, produce less pollution, and protect ecosystems better than...
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The Ecology of Peace
By David Nostbakken PhD, Chair, EVP International Development, Ecology Global Network and Abdul Khan PhD, COO,EDTRIN; former Assistant Director General UNESCO Information and Communication We accept...
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California Governor Jerry Brown Signs Nation’s First Statewide Plastic Bag...
By Californians Against Waste California Governor Jerry Brown today signed legislation enacting the nation’s first statewide ban of single-use plastic shopping bags. “Forty years ago there were no...
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Environment, Health and Wellbeing: a Systemic Approach
Courtesy of the European Environment Agency The natural environment can benefit our health and quality of life, while environmental pollution has significant costs. Unfortunately, such links between...
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Kalahari’s Sleeping Sands Awaken
Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, as overgrazing leaves desert’s red dunes blowing in the African wind Without grasses to anchor the dunes in place, their sand grains...
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Drone Provides Stunning Images of Killer Whales
For the first time, scientists have used an unmanned aerial vehicle to photograph killer whales from above. This gives scientists a new way to monitor killer whale health and reproduction while giving...
View ArticleOrigami Inspires 21st Century Engineering
21st century engineering applications for this ancient art form continue to unfold Most people who know of origami think of it as the Japanese art of paper folding. Though it began centuries ago,...
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Learn to Live with Wildfires
By Tim Radford As climate change and population growth increase the risks from wildfires, researchers warn that we must co-exist and deal with the danger as we do with earthquakes, hurricanes or...
View ArticleGlobal Fishing Watch is Eye on the Ocean
Close to 90 percent of the world’s oceans are over-fished or fully exploited, according to 2014 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Fishing fleets operate way out to sea,...
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Homegrown Ingenuity Brings Nature to the City
By David Suzuki Photo courtesy DavidSuzuki.org Canada’s newest “national park” is a vibrant patchwork of green space meandering through dynamic downtown neighbourhoods in one of Canada’s densest...
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New Generation: Growing Up Reading Rachel Carson, Scientists Unravel Risks of...
By Alanna Mitchell Courtesy of Environmental Health News Christy Morrissey is driving her white pickup truck along Canada’s endless prairie highway, windows open, listening for birds. She points to the...
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In Canada, More Jobs in Green Energy than Tar Sands
By Deirdre Fulton Courtesy of Common Dreams ‘The global clean energy revolution isn’t a future scenario—it is underway right now,’ declares Clean Energy Canada The Greenstone Government of Canada...
View ArticleBiocultural Diversity Combats Climate Change
Courtesy of Food Tank Biocultural diversity creates holistic systems of culture and nature that have been shaped by human management over long periods of time. They maintain ecosystem health, utilize...
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Eco-Friendly Disposable Tableware Hits Mainstream
Disposable tableware is a huge market, $7.5 billion in 2012 in the US alone. That’s a lot of plastic cups, forks, spoons and Styrofoam hot cups pouring into our waste stream every day. “This is such a...
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Looking for Leaders on Climate? Follow the Women Farmers
By Jon Queally Common Dreams Across the globe, countless women are standing up to the ravages of climate change – and to the governments and big businesses who are allowing it to destroy the world....
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New Insight on Ground Shaking from Man-Made Earthquakes
U.S. Geological Survey Significant strides in science have been made to better understand potential ground shaking from induced earthquakes, which are earthquakes triggered by man-made practices....
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Link Forests into Food Security Efforts, UN Told
By SciDevNet International efforts to address food insecurity must pay more attention to the role forests play in food production, say a panel of scientists. A report issued on 6 May (see video) by the...
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