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.
A new study recently released by the non-profit National Audubon Society found that since 1967, the average population of many common bird species has fallen by 68 percent, with some individual species declining as much as 80 percent.
Google Inc., the California-based Internet monolith, announced last week that it is pledging a cool $10 million of its profits to help spur the development of plug-in hybrid cars.
The majority of egg operations in the U.S. subject hens to stacked, battery cages, too small for them to even flap their wings. But consumer momentum is building for cage-free eggs, which offer a better life for hens, but one that’s still not as cruelty-free as organic operations.
While international relief agencies struggle to protect people displaced by ware, drought and civil unrest, they often neglect the environmental devastation that follows in the world’s overcrowded refugee camps.
