World’s “Happiest” Countries
The world’s happiest countries are bright and sunny, tropical and temperate. Right ? Wrong! Finland tops the list of the “happiest” in the 2018 World Happiness Report, which ranks 156 […]
Category Archives: News
Solar Eclipse Aug 21 2017
It’s showtime! The sun and moon are putting on a spectacle today with an audience of hundreds of millions live viewers – and millions more online and watching the solar […]
Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep
U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]
Remembering John Glenn! Godspeed
Astronaut John Glenn was buried this week in Arlington National Cemetery. I had a glorious brief encounter with Astronaut-U.S. Sen. John Glenn when I staged the National Air & Space Museum’s […]
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 […]
Remembering John Glenn!
Remembering Astronaut John Glenn today — one day after his death at age 95. I had a glorious brief encounter with Astronaut-U.S. Sen. John Glenn when I staged the National […]
Experience the World: Our 4th Anniversary
Green News Update is celebrating – four years as an online blog in a web-style format. That’s over 270 posts – more than once a week, on average – on […]
Friday Roundup Apr 29: Ches Bay, Space Colony, Hummingbirds, Feeding Africa
Our stories this week: Chesapeake Bay’s good news, Kaplana –a NASA space colony, Howard Buffett’s “brown revolution” to feed Africa, bison wins new status Chesapeake Bay’s Good News The Chesapeake […]
Whalehunting: The latest Japanese caper
Japan has just returned from a 3-month whale-hunting “expedition” in the Antarctic, killing 333 minke whales – some 230 were females, 90% of them pregnant – as part of its […]
Berta Caceres: Enviro Activist Murdered
This is heartbreaking news! Environmental activist Berta Cáceres – who defied the government of Honduras for the land rights of indigenous people—was laid to rest on March 7 after being […]
