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Christoph and Barbara Promberger get ready to place wolf traps for radio collarinjg. They are fully suited up to avoid contaminated soil or radioactive hair from wolves.

War in Ukraine: Chernobyl Update

March 11, 2022by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

March 12 2022 UPDATE Thirty-five years ago the world’s worst nuclear crisis occurred at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear facility.   Today Chernobyl is back in Russian hands ! Russia’s incursion into the […]

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Animals at risk, Anniversaries, Biodiversity, Birds, Disasters, Documentary films, Energy, Environment, Film and television, Science, Toxics, Wildlife
Boy on bicycle. Photograph by Elliott Erwitt.

Upcoming Books: The Comfort of Food

March 19, 2020by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Food does more than feed us – it is essential to human development,  brain health, social interactions, and the joy of being alive. We’re assembling a compendium of the best […]

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Birds, Farming, Fish, Food, Green Practices, Health, Oceans
Now I Sit Me Down Witold Rybczynski

Summer Books: While You’re Waiting

July 11, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Our Summer 2017 books lineup has grown into three stories that we will unwrap over the next few weeks. While you wait, we are sharing a fabulous array of Summer […]

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Architecture, Art & Design, Biodiversity, Birds, Books, Discovery, Environment, Health
Hibernating Queen. Courtesy of Conservation Trust

Extinction Looms: Bee Grateful!

March 30, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Butterflies, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Farming, Food, Gardens, Green Practices, News, Science, Sustainability
Pair of pileated woodpeckers feeding on berries at Cacapon State Park (West VA) in May 2015 (Bobbie Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)

Birds Rock! The 2017 Bird Count

March 6, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, International, Sustainability, Wildlife
Snowy owl captured by photographer Francis Portman

Great Backyard Bird Count Feb 17-20

February 4, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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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Biodiversity, Birds, Climate change, Conservation, Extinction, International, Natural history
Big juicy burger. Courtesy of recipeshubs.com

Books Summer ’16: Ten More You’ll Like

August 15, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Award-winning journalists and experts – Sebastian Junger, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Ackerman– are  among the authors we’ve selected for Ten More Books you’ll like this summer. This selection of 10  looks […]

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Birds, Books, Health, History, Natural history, Research, Technology
Courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Friday Roundup Apr 29: Ches Bay, Space Colony, Hummingbirds, Feeding Africa

April 29, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Our stories this week: Chesapeake Bay’s good news,  Kaplana –a NASA space colony, Howard Buffett’s “brown revolution” to feed Africa, bison wins new status Chesapeake Bay’s Good News The Chesapeake […]

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Birds, Extinction, Farming, Food, Friday Roundup, News, Rivers, Science, Water, Whales, Wildlife
Christoph and Barbara Promberger get ready to place wolf traps for radio collarinjg. They are fully suited up to avoid contaminated soil or radioactive hair from wolves.

Chernobyl at 30

April 26, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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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Animals at risk, Anniversaries, Biodiversity, Birds, Disasters, Documentary films, Energy, Environment, Film and television, Science, Toxics, Wildlife
Dar Si Hmad Fog Harvester Morocco

Friday Roundup Apr 1: No foolin’!

April 1, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Friday Roundup April 1: Our stories — how cities and islands may disappear by the end of the century, making water from fog, a 65-year-old “mother” osprey, salmon spawn for […]

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Birds, Cities, Climate change, Environment, Fish, Friday Roundup, International, Oceans, Rising Waters, Science, Water

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