Plastics Update – New Frontline Documentary
Plastic production, pollution and recycling — a new Frontline/NPR documentary Plastic Wars, that premiered March 31 on PBS stations and online — reveals the sordid truth about why we are […]
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Coming Soon: Books for the Holidays 2018
The books we’ve selected for the 2018 holiday season – to give or get — start with a thrilling mystery. Author Susan Orlean (who wrote the Orchid Thief), regales us […]
Cleaning up the Oceans: Coming
Are we facing an “Ocean Armageddon, “ with a trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans and 8 million tons added every year ? That’s what Erik Solheim, U.N. Environment […]
Oceans: The Perils of Plastic
Travelers, ecotourists, beach-goers, sports fans, consumers: It doesn’t matter where you live or travel, plastic pollution is invading our oceans—it is affecting you and your well-being, as well as animals, […]
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 […]
Open Letter to Leaders of the World
What’s the goal of COP21? For world leaders to create the strongest global agreement possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why people from many countries are speaking out to […]
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 […]
Great Barrier Reef: Attenborough’s New Quest
David Attenborough’s new 3-part BBC One series on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is set to debut in 2016. It will provide an estimated one billion people worldwide with the […]
Now Not Tomorrow!
Climate change is real and a threat to poor and vulnerable communities, say The Elders – an independent group of world leaders including Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Fernando Henrique […]
