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A new program helps veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to find a future in organic growing.

Folk Music, Family Fun, and Environmental Awareness at the Clearwater FestivalAs a college student, I overhear a lot of conversations regarding music festivals. Talk mostly centers around the big names (Lollapalooza in Chicago, Coachella in California, Bonnaroo in Tennessee) and related music activities (I don’t think I need to elaborate here). But there are a […]

Watch the phenomenon of midnight sun, when the sun shines for 24 hours in the summer. Shot by Joe Capra, this film is a time lapse of Iceland’s landscape bathed in the golden light from the sun that never fully sets during the summer. With only a car and his equipment, Capra traveled the country […]

Nature lovers can now identify their favorite trees just by taking a picture of their leaves. Created by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, Columbia University and the University of Maryland, Leafsnap allows users to find the common name, scientific name and pictures of trees they identify. It is the first collaborative app by the three […]

Last week, Los Angeles became the largest city in the U.S. to ban disposable plastic bags from supermarket checkouts.

Bluefin tuna from the Sea of Japan are coming to California’s coast contaminated with radioactive waste.

A Touching Memoir About Finding Love, and Saving Animals, in AfricaBeing at home in nature has never been a problem for Dame Daphne Sheldrick. In her new book, Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), she recounts her life in Kenya surrounded by the African wilderness and its creatures. Central […]

Part of a glacier cracks and falls into the Arctic Ocean, as captured by the group One World One Ocean. Members of One World One Ocean shot this video while traveling to the Arctic. The organization, created by filmmaker Greg MacGillivray and his family, works to educate people about ocean problems using multimedia. The organization […]

For those interested in climate change, NASA has a new app to see how and why climate data is not the same as it used to be. The updated 1.4 version of the Earth Now app was developed by the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in order to give users a way to track global climate […]

The charismatic leader of Sea Shepherd and star of Whale Wars faces extradition to Costa Rica.