Gearing Up For Eco-Friendly Gardening
Now that spring has sprung, it’s time to get that eco-friendly garden into shape by battling bugs with bugs, using recycled pots, encouraging birds, composting with coffee grounds, an installing a rain barrel.
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Natural Pest Control: Protecting Without Harmful Poisons
How to rid your home of annoying pests without compromising the health and safety of your indoor and backyard environments…
Lord God Bird Redux: Is the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Really Back?
Birders are keeping hope alive that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker will re-appear “on the wing” somewhere in the swamps of the Southeastern U.S.
6 Eco-Friendly Ways to Recycle Pumpkins
Once Halloween has come and gone, what are the most environmentally responsible ways to get rid of my droopy old pumpkins?
Saving Alaska
The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska boasts not only the country’s largest tract of undeveloped land but also hosts migratory birds, caribou, wolverines
Jane Alexander: For the Birds
Award-winning actress Jane Alexander has teamed up with leading non-profits like Audubon to raise awareness about the plight of America’s birds…
Protecting Migratory Birds
What are the major issues with protecting migratory birds that groups like the Nature Conservancy are working on?
Does Human Population Impact Migratory Birds’ Routing?
How does growing human population, and its resultant landscape changes, affect the flight paths of migratory birds that might carry diseases?
Do Wind Turbines Kill Lots Of Birds?
I have heard that wind power turbines kill a lot of birds, including migrating flocks, and that some people oppose wind power for that reason. If this is true, to what degree do they harm birds and what is being done about it?
Pests or Pets?
The marshlands on the Connecticut coast are alive with
parakeets? Yes, green monk parakeets from South America have found there way to more than a dozen states, and in some places they’ve run afoul of utility power lines.