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See all the subtleties of light through a series of amazing photographs captured over nearly two yearsWhen photographer, filmmaker and travel-enthusiast Shawn Reeder became fascinated with timelapse cinematography, he immediately knew that he wanted to create a piece on California’s Yosemite National Park and Sierra Nevada Mountains. After winning a trip to Yosemite at 18 […]

Chris Christie Prevents a New Train Tunnel to Make a Political PointWhen New Jersey governor Chris Christie first planted his foot in the way of a proposed train tunnel project designed to relieve traffic congestion along the Hudson River, much of the nation’s attention was focused on the platform of government austerity championed by the […]

John Wood, owner of Portsmouth, Rhode Island health food store Green Grocer, no longer felt comfortable selling Kashi cereals after reading the report Cereal Crimes from non-profit family farm advocacy group Cornucopia Institute (CI), which investigated whether cereals labeled “organic” or “natural” contained genetically-modified (GMO) ingredients and/or the same presence of pesticide residues found on […]

Imagine a world where industrial manufacturing’s toxic solvents and chemicals were replaced with sugar, starch and sunlight. Imagine pure, clean water and air leaving factories, workplaces free of “hazmat” gear, polluted sources brought back to life and farmers transitioning away from highly toxic conventional chemical pesticides into an era of truly sustainable agriculture through the […]

In the warming Arctic Ocean, newly forming cracks in the sea ice are releasing surprising levels of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, according to a new study conducted with funding from NASA and other institutions. Scientists have long known that melting permafrost allows gas trapped in the soils and ocean sediments to be released into […]

It Might Be Closer than You ThinkIf every American family improved their household energy performance and installed solar panels, we’d go a long way toward zero carbon emissions. Solar panels on a majority of houses at one time seemed unattainable—it was simply too great an investment, with too long a payback time. But with new […]

Lawsuit Aims to Protect the Parrotfish, the Deep Sea Cleaning CrewRecently, conservation groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect coral reefs by allowing the overfishing of parrotfish, a colorful fish species that spends its days munching algae off of the underwater, polyp-covered structures. If you’ve ever owned a goldfish (and we […]

This week will mark the second anniversary of the explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, which led to the largest oil spill in US history. In the immediate aftermath of the spill, researchers marvelled at the ability of bacteria to consume the oil and natural gas that stretched across the gulf in a 22 […]

To inspire the general public to become more interested in and aware of their local redwoods, Save the Redwoods created this iPhone appResidents of the American Pacific Northwest walk among nature’s giants — the Coast redwood, Giant Sequoia and Dawn redwood trees. Coast redwoods are the tallest trees in the world with a height that […]