Coming Up: The Iron CurtainTrail
For the bike ride – or hike – of a lifetime, it’s the 10,000 kilometer Iron Curtain Trail that takes you through 20 countries, from the Barents Sea to the […]
Books Summer ’16: Ten You’ll Like
Welcome Summer –– and the books that beckon us to sit in a comfortable chair, dream, explore other places and other worlds. This month’s selection is the first of several […]
Coming: Books of Summer 2016
Our summer book lineup comes in two parts, in June and July – with titles like Tasty, Touch, Gene, Too Much of a Good Thing, Thunder and Lightning, and Architecture’s […]
World Oceans Day: The Sea & Its Abundance
Today is World Oceans Day-– We honor the oceans by reprising our earlier selection of books of the seas and their creatures. These writers explore species that have prevailed for millions of […]
Summer: Time for Art, Museums, Travel
Whether you are traveling – or enjoying your favorite armchair – we’re sending you around the world with a round-up of beautiful art installations, major exhibitions, new museums and World Heritage […]
Coming this summer: books, museums, cities
Looting the ancient world – cities, sites and tombs are being robbed to fund militants and deliberately destroyed to erase our history Solar projects – follow Impulse 2 (solar […]
Cuba: Update and Portal to the Island
Havana: The first cruise ship in decades docked May 2 – with on shore dancers, bands and crowds waving flags. The city’s restaurant scene is flourishing, even with shortages of […]
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 […]
Chernobyl at 30
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 […]
Earth Heroes 2013-2015
Green News Update has shared an abundance of short pieces and articles about Earth heroes since 2013 – they make appearances throughout the year, not just during Earth Week. Below […]
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