Frans de Waal: Primates are us!
“What could be more dignified than primates who use their natural gifts to build a humane society?” ( Frans de Waal) Frans de Waal is a celebrated primatologist who manages to […]
Category Archives: Animals at risk
Ray Dearlove: Saving the Rhinos
A half dozen white rhinos – the first of an eventual herd of 80 animals of breeding age – will be airlifted shortly to Australia from South Africa, in an […]
Whalehunting: The latest Japanese caper
Japan has just returned from a 3-month whale-hunting “expedition” in the Antarctic, killing 333 minke whales – some 230 were females, 90% of them pregnant – as part of its […]
Coming up: Week of March 14
Here’s what we are following this week for Green News Update. Come back and get the whole story. The Environmental Film Festival continues in Washington DC through March 26 Buy, eat, […]
Friday Roundup Mar. 4: NYC, DC, Russia, Rio
This week’s Friday Roundup features: Illegal logging and loss of forest habitat, two important film festivals (Rio and Washington DC), opening of the Met Breuer in NYC, and a critique of […]
Our coming lineup: art, science, nature
Our planet is a complex place — ancient places and traditions imperiled by war, land grabs, urbanization, changing values, changing climate. Our upcoming articles this winter and spring demonstrate how much […]
Birds: Count ’em Feb 12-15
A worldwide bird census takes place Feb 12-15 – and you can be part of it! The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)— made up of Audubon, Cornell (University) Lab of […]
New Year’s Blessings
Wherever you are in the world — and our readers are in 118 countries — we wish the best for you in 2016. Peace, the love of family and friends, […]
Racing Extinction! Watch it Dec. 2 on Discovery
Don’t miss Racing Extinction — airs worldwide on Discovery December 2 (US, 9 pm ET/PT, 8pm Central). Academy-Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos is a man on a mission to keep thousands of species […]
Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark: Coming Up
Joel Sartore is a man on a mission – to photograph 12,000 species of mammals, amphibians, birds, insects and other species before they go extinct, through a project he calls […]
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