Today is World Lion Day 2015
World Lion Day – what does it mean? People have revered, honored – and feared –lions for thousands of years. The lion in history, art, culture, and human affairs represents […]
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World Lion Day: Art, History, Culture, Nature
World Lion Day – what does it mean? People have revered, honored – and feared –lions for thousands of years, and proof of that can be found in the cave […]
Big Game Trophies: Airlines Say No!
The “Cecil the Lion” aftershock is being felt internationally, with airlines announcing they will not ship trophy hunters’ prizes. Delta Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Qatar, KLM, and Air France have […]
Racing Extinction Aug 1 NYC’s Empire State Bldg
International photographer- filmmaker Louie Psihoyos —National Geographic photog; director of The Cove—is the man behind a bold effort to show the world that the Sixth Animal Extinction is underway – […]
Summer Reading: Birds, Butterflies, Bees
Birds, butterflies and bees — what do they have in common ? This group of 20 books originally posted for Christmas 2014- resource guides, travelogues, memoirs and more — makes […]
Climate Change: New resources for readers
A new Green News Update resources page –– see our homepage for the link — will feature reports, studies, videos and op-eds in the runup to the COP 21 (Conference of the Parties) in […]
Sagebrush Sea: Watch it now!
Sagebrush Sea – The “Big Empty,” an area once 500,000 square miles across North America –is actually teeming with life, including the remarkable Greater Sage-Grouse, a bird that performs a […]
Monarchs: Save Them, Says NRDC
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking on Dow Chemicals –– and Monsanto too– to stop the toxic herbicides that threaten Monarch butterflies with extinction. A full-page ad in […]
Pope’s Home Run: Our Planet in Jeopardy
Pope Francis has hit a home run: Laudato Si´, his 197-page encyclical (treatise) released June 18 by the Vatican on environment and climate change, makes it clear that we are responsible […]
Monarch Butterflies Imperiled: No Joke!
The Washington Post calls it a “monarch massacre.” One billion, now down to 30 million. Our beloved monarch butterflies are proof that very little separates an endangered species from extinction. […]
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