Endangered Species Day May 19
Today is Endangered Species Day: What better way to recognize the web of life and the habitats imperiled worldwide than with a selection of 25 images from National Geographic photographer […]
Category Archives: Extinction
My Earth Hero: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Listen Up!
One of the world’s smartest and most popular scientists — check him out (below) on Twitter — Neil DeGrasse Tyson has issued a four-minute video to Americans about the future […]
March for Science Photo Gallery (Wash DC)
Earth Day 2017
Happy Earth Day 2017 Are you Marching for Science today ? Wherever you are (London, New York, DC, Berlin) Find a venue, go to the Facebook page, get active locally. (click […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
