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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lapland Dream Trip
A Dutch fan of Green News Update, long-time Amsterdam resident Aik Meeuse shares his story of a week-long trip he took to Lapland (in Finland) also known as the “European […]
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 […]
Travel with Us: A Year-End Wish 2016
Art and culture, books, travel, unique places, creatures great and small, and a safer, greener world. We care about the planet — sustainability is our cause. Thank you – to readers […]
Bakers Dozen: 13 Books for the Holidays
From serious to serendipitous — 13 books for the holiday season — to give or receive. You’ll find travel, natural history, children’s classics, urban design, the digital world and more. […]
Preview: Baker’s Dozen Books for Christmas
We’re giving you a preview of the 13 books — from travel to urban design –we are releasing this week as our “baker’s dozen” books to give or get for this […]
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