Currents

A grassroots coalition of environmental, religious, and activist groups launched a campaign last week targeting the Fox News Network for spreading misinformation about global warming.

Live Earth likely inspired many concertgoers and viewers at home to making individual lifestyle changes to slow global warming. But the operations of the New Jersey concert I attended were unbelievably wasteful and retroactive to the day’s overall message, and the focus on saving the human race as opposed to saving important ecosystems and animal species missed the mark completely.

A recent study in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems shows that organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming in both developed and developing countries.

Forget about listening into the conch shell to hear the sounds of the ocean, right now one of the best ways to learn about current news in the marine world is by tuning into Blue Frontier Campaign’s Blue Notes.

Conservationists from two nonprofits, the World Wide Fund for Nature and Conservation International, announced last week the recent discovery of a population of at least 116 highly endangered gray-shanked douc monkeys in a remote part of Vietnam.

A study released last week in the peer-reviewed journal Science shows that humans have domesticated the planet to such an extent that little true wilderness remains.

I was thirteen, growing up in Akron, Ohio, when I saw the California coastline for the first time. It was a full-page color photograph in a magazine. Jagged rock stacks seemed to rise out of the ocean. Steep craggy cliffs that I thought were mountains towered over the beach. And a person was walking there! A person could walk between mountains and sea!

In a move that mortified many American environmentalists, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) last week removed Florida’s Everglades from its list of World Heritage Sites in Danger.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made it official last week: the bald eagle is no longer listed as threatened under the nation’s landmark Endangered Species Act (ESA).

The movement to promote bicycle commuting in conjunction with train travel is growing all over the nation, but fighting for bicycles remains a guerrilla action in car-crazy America. While the U.S. has the highest per-capita bicycle ownership in the world, according to the League of American Bicyclists, automobiles are used for more than 95 percent of our trips.