Earth Heroes 2013-2015

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Photo Ark book

Photo Ark book by Joel Sartore

Green News Update has shared  an abundance of short pieces and articles about Earth heroes since 2013 – they make appearances throughout the year, not just during Earth Week.

Below you’ll find fearless filmmakers and photographers, journalists unmasking illegal practices, conservationists in a race to save species, scientists seeking answers. You’d be proud to know any of them.

Read the stories, watch the videos, listen to the interviews…touch the links

Racing Extinction event at the Empire State Building. Image by Joel Sartore (rights reserved)

Racing Extinction event Aug 1 2015 at the Empire State Building. Image by Joel Sartore (rights reserved)

YEAR 2015

Earth Day at 45: Who founded Earth Day and why ? Gaylord Nelson, Denis Hayes and others

Goldman Environmental Prize Winners 2015: including Berta Caceres (assassinated in March 2016)

Wildlife Killings Search for the Truth: Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Knudson

Next Generation: Thousands of students invest in the planet’s future

Gorilla Mother Love: Rangers from the Virunga National Park risk their lives to protect endangered lowland gorillas in their care

Sea Lion pups

Sea Lion pups

Saving Sea Lion Pups: Pacific Marine Mammal Center

Chasing Ice: Legendary photographer James Balog reveals a planetary train wreck with the Extreme Ice Survey

Sir David Attenborough’s New Quest: The Great Barrier Reef his 12th TV series)

Rhinos without Borders:  Great wildlife filmmakers  Derek and Beverly Joubert, relocate threatened rhinos

Oldest Living Things: Photographer Rachel Sussman spent 10 years researching and photographing the most ancient trees, plants and organisms on Earth

Louie Psihoyos Racing Extinction: A worldwide documentary and a mission

Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark:  A 20-year project to document 12,000 species

Photographer James Balog (courtesy of Getting the Picture)

Photographer James Balog (courtesy of Getting the Picture)

YEAR 2014

Cathedral in Christchurch New Zealand, made of paper tubes, was built after the earthquake and opened in 2013.

The “paper” Cathedral in Christchurch New Zealand, made of paper tubes, was built after the earthquake and opened in 2013. Shigeru Ban.

Goldman Environmental  Prize Winners of 2014

Osprey Thriving in DC Area: A conservation success story

Three Men, Their Legacy: Peter Matthiessen, Pete Seeger, Jonathan Schell

Shigeru Ban, Humanitarian Architect: designing temporary structures for disaster victims

Dr Dee Boersma: Magellenic Penguins, the sentinels of oceanic health and climatic change

Dr Dee Boersma with Magellenic chicks -- one of our Environmental Heroes of 2014

Dr Dee Boersma with Magellenic chicks — one of our Environmental Heroes of 2014

YEAR 2013

Derek and Beverly Joubert. Courtesy studentfilmakers.com

Filmmakers Derek and Beverly Joubert. Courtesy studentfilmakers.com

Earth Week Update in 2013  Among those we featured in this Earth Week article:

Goldman Environmental Prize winners of 2013

James Hansen: Life after NASA for a truth-teller

Peru’s Quelccaya Glacier meltdown (Lonnie Thompson & team)

Brazil’s monster dam: Indigenous people stand tall

Insect sounds as music: David Rothenberg’s book and CD

Sage advice for students from Dr. Edward O. Wilson

The Bristlecone Pine, White Mountains California, at 5,000+ years old, lives at the upper edge of the tree line (10,000 feet). It is older than the famed Methusaleh Tree, a superb bristlecone pine cut down by a field researcher in 1964.

The Bristlecone Pine, White Mountains California, at 5,000+ years old, lives at the upper edge of the tree line (10,000 feet). It is older than the famed Methusaleh Tree, a superb bristlecone pine cut down by a field researcher in 1964. Photograph by Rachel Sussman in The Oldest Living Things.