Extinction Looming: Series Coming Up
EXTINCTION. The very word suggests long ago and far away. Dinosaurs, mastodons, woolly mammoth, saber tooth tigers, aurochs, the dodo, fossils or remains preserved deep in the earth – the […]
Category Archives: Animals at risk
2016: Our Stories of the Year!
Green News Update took readers on a whirlwind tour in 2016 – Cuba, the Iron Curtain Trail, Chernobyl on its 30th anniversary, the oceans, environmental heroes on several continents, and […]
Preview: Baker’s Dozen Books for Christmas
We’re giving you a preview of the 13 books — from travel to urban design –we are releasing this week as our “baker’s dozen” books to give or get for this […]
Elephants: Do they have souls?
Don’t miss the opportunity to read Caitrin Nicol’s Do Elephants Have Souls? in The New Atlantis. It’s a lengthy but beautiful read about elephant life and behavior. Nicol says, “One […]
DiCaprio’s Before the Flood: See It Nov 5
The National Geographic has released Before the Flood, a documentary by Oscar Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio for free on You Tube and other venues. See it now — it will […]
Ban All Ivory Sales Worldwide: End It Now!
BAN ALL IVORY SALES WORLDWIDE! A complete worldwide ban on ALL ivory sales –including so-called “legal” ivory –is what former Secretary of State James A. Baker III calls for in […]
Washed Ashore: Sea-Saving Art
How do you delight and educate about the oceans’ worst predator – plastic waste – to encourage people to change their buying habits, and how they handle their plastic waste? […]
Coming: Books of Summer 2016
Our summer book lineup comes in two parts, in June and July – with titles like Tasty, Touch, Gene, Too Much of a Good Thing, Thunder and Lightning, and Architecture’s […]
World Oceans Day: The Sea & Its Abundance
Today is World Oceans Day-– We honor the oceans by reprising our earlier selection of books of the seas and their creatures. These writers explore species that have prevailed for millions of […]
Chernobyl at 30
Today is Chernobyl ‘s 30th anniversary– and the impacts of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster (yes, they say, worse than Fukushima in 2011) are still being felt in […]
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