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 […]
Category Archives: Environment
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 […]
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 […]
Holiday Books 2016 Photography
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer, Arthur Lubow (Ecco). “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” It’s safe to say that Diane Arbus went places most of […]
Our Darkest Day: USA
Darkness has descended on us. Democracy is at risk.
Chernobyl at 30
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 […]
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 […]
Coming up: All of our earth heroes
To wrap up Earth Week 2016, we’ll be publishing a portal with story links to everyone who has been an Earth Hero on our site since 2013. Here are just […]
NOVA: Citizen Science at its best
NOVA, the 42- year- old PBS television series, is citizen science’s best friend – thoughtful, balanced, free of charge, and available to millions of people via several media platforms. That […]
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