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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
Below the waterline. Copyright Caroline Power Photography.

Oceans: The Perils of Plastic Part 2

November 21, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Plastics are ubiquitous — raw materials, packaging and post-consumer waste are spewing into streams, rivers, oceans, and landfills around the world.  Look down at your feet in parking lots, shopping […]

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Animals at risk, Biodiversity, Conservation, Fish, Oceans, Plastic, Rivers, Sustainability, Toxics, Travel, Waste and Recycling, Water
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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Animals at risk, Anniversaries, Biodiversity, Birds, Disasters, Documentary films, Energy, Environment, Film and television, Science, Toxics, Wildlife
A monarch perches on a sunflower in Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota. Courtesy Tom KoernerUSFWS

Monarchs: Save Them, Says NRDC

July 8, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Butterflies, Endangered species, Extinction, Farming, Food, Toxics
Geologist Jim Kilburn, now retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, collects soil from Kansas in 2008. Courtesy of USGS

Earth Week Heroes 2014: Dirt is Good!

May 2, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

It took an army of students and volunteers, thousands of bags, and travel to all of the lower 48 states, but the mission is, more or less, complete. “It” is […]

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Climate change, Farming, Research, Science, Toxics

Earth Week Heroes: Osprey Thriving in Wash DC

April 23, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

This is a success story that involves two continents, youths in troubled neighborhoods, a raft of community volunteers, good science and a cleaned up river in Washington DC. But it […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Rivers, Toxics, Water
A.M. rush hour in DC region

Roundup: Tsunami Trash, Traffic, Cats, Birds, Culture

February 6, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Feb 15-18: Count Birds, It’s Free:  Wherever you are worldwide, you can participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) if you have Internet access.  You just need to watch birds […]

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Art & Design, Cities, International, Museums, Toxics
Abraham Lincoln as he looked 11 days before he gave the Gettysburg Address on Nov 19, 1843. Courtesy of the USAHMI.

Books Galore: Heroes & Heroines

December 21, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Dickens’s bicentennial, the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. All these are reason enough for updated biographies, groundbreaking research and new works that interpret history and […]

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Books, History, Toxics

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: 50th Anniversary

October 5, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Rachel Carson’s landmark book Silent Spring marks its 50th anniversary this year with the new biography On a Farther Shore : The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder, (Crown, 512 […]

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Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, Ecology, Toxics

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