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 […]
Category Archives: Conservation
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 […]
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 […]
Coming Up: The Iron CurtainTrail
For the bike ride – or hike – of a lifetime, it’s the 10,000 kilometer Iron Curtain Trail that takes you through 20 countries, from the Barents Sea to the […]
Earth Heroes 2013-2015
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 […]
Goldman Environmental Prize 2016
The 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize awards announced April 18 in San Francisco were tinged with the sadness that 2015 award winner Berta Cáceres had been assassinated only weeks before in Honduras. This […]
Earth Heroes: Today we remember…those absent
Today we remember women and men, who risked everything to protect their land, forests, waters, wildlife, children, cultural ways. Their values transcended ownership, money, status and personal gain. They are […]
Earth Heroes
Every day for the next two weeks, we are going to introduce you to men, women, indigenous groups, doctors, scientists, broadcasters, rangers and fearless activists who stand for the planet. […]
Earth Week Heroes Coming Up
Being an environmental hero can mean putting your life on the line, taking risks that most of us fear (but admire) and getting things accomplished against the odds. Next week, […]
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