My Earth Hero: “Canopy Meg” Lowman
“Canopy Meg” Lowman is a world-class scientist – and climber – who has spent years in the canopy of tropical forests, discovering new species and how to adapt to life […]
Category Archives: Biodiversity
Earth Heroes: Coming Up
Earth Heroes: They’ve traveled from Antarctica to the Amazon, they are activists, scientists, researchers, supremely talented writers and photographers, people who want to make a difference — and they are! […]
Climate Change: An Inconvenient Sequel
A sequel to An Inconvenient Truth – the 2006 documentary produced by former VP Al Gore and seen by a worldwide audience – premieres July 28 worldwide as An Inconvenient […]
Extinction Looms: Bee Grateful!
A gratifying moment came last week for the rusty patched bumblebee – a highly threatened species of native bee in the U.S. that is an essential pollinator in such crops […]
Trump Budget: Kill Arts, Media, Climate, Parks Funding
Funding for the arts, humanities, public broadcasting, climate change research, national parks, acquisition of public lands, and many social services are among the 50 programs that the Trump Administration intends […]
Extinction: Great Barrier Reef in Crisis
Extinction is looming in a place many of us may never see – 10,000 miles away, below the ocean surface—Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It’s one of the world’s great natural […]
Environmental Film Festival: March 14-26 2017
Coming up: The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital—March 14-26—presents over 150 films in Washington, DC area locations as wide-ranging as museums, embassies, universities and local theatres. Don’t miss […]
Birds Rock! The 2017 Bird Count
The 2017 Great Backyard Bird Count in February just set new records: it’s the best count ever conducted since the GBBC began in 1998. Here are the stats—as of March […]
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 […]
Great Backyard Bird Count Feb 17-20
Do you love birds? Love watching them? The Great Backyard Bird Count – now nearly 20 years old– is your chance, February 17-20, to help create the 2017 annual snapshot […]
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