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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
Surgical facility operated by MSF.

Earth Heroes: Doctors without Borders

April 22, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Doctors without Borders, known internationally as Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) kicks off our Earth Week series of “earth heroes.” Health and human well-being are guiding principles for a sustainable world. […]

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Africa, Asia, Disasters, Health, Heroes, Latin America, Sustainability

Notre Dame

April 15, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

A world monument, a symbol of France, a place for everyone, shattered by flames.  We mourn…

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Architecture, Disasters, France
A Hubble sky full of stars. Courtesy NASA

Books Spring 2019

March 19, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The Spring 2019 books we are recommending ask us — what is real, what is imagined, what is knowable? Is our own experience shared by others, or does it only […]

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Art & Design, Books, Cities, Climate change, Disasters, Europe, Science
Earth -our only home (GOES satellite)

Losing Earth: New York Times Special Feature

August 1, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Climate Change could have been stopped! The New York Times Magazine this week presents a two-part special feature  on the 10-year period (1979 to 1989) when“we came very close to […]

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Climate change, Disasters, Environment, Photography, Sustainability, Weather
People walk through flood waters of West Houston on Sunday August 27, 2017. Thomas B. Shea Getty Images

Houston Catastrophe: Prediction Becomes Fact

August 30, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Just a month before Hurricane Harvey – now a tropical storm — devastated the Houston/Galveston coastal region, moving on to Louisiana– the Union of Concerned Scientists issued When Rising Seas Hit […]

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Cities, Climate change, Disasters, Environment, Oceans, Rising Waters, Rivers, Sustainability, Weather
Rising Water U.S. Coast. Guard. Photo by Mark Olsen, US Coast Guard.

Climate Change: An Inconvenient Sequel

April 3, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Disasters, Documentary films, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Extinction, Film and television, Rising Waters, Science, Sustainability
Arno Flooding at the Ponte Vecchio, Florence Italy Nov 1956

Florence Reborn: 50th Anniversary after the Flood

November 9, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

  It’s been 50 years since the Arno River’s banks overflowed, bringing a raging torrent of water, mud,  abandoned vehicles, and dead animals rushing through the narrow streets of Florence’s […]

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Anniversaries, Architecture, Art & Design, Cities, Disasters, Europe, Museums, Photography, Travel
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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