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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.

The chemicals used to clean up the Gulf oil spill have left a devastating impact.

Cleaning House without Sending It All to the LandfillIt’s that time of year when we start delving into overstuffed closets and pulling out miscellaneous goods to be separated into piles: storage, trash, donations. When I get into cleaning mode, I’m determined to clear out space and rid myself of clothes and old items I never […]