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Plastic baled for recycling. Courtesy National Public Radio

Plastics Update – New Frontline Documentary

April 3, 2020by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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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Endangered species, Environment, Fish, Oceans, Plastic, Waste and Recycling, Water

Coming Soon: Books for the Holidays 2018

November 26, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Books, Discovery, Food, Health, Photography
Enlarged microbeads banned by President Barack Obama. Photo by 5 gyres Oregon State University

Cleaning up the Oceans: Coming

October 16, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Environment, Fish, Oceans, Rivers, Sustainability, Waste and Recycling, Water
Ocean plastics. Courtesy of doyourpart.com

Oceans: The Perils of Plastic

July 22, 2018by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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, […]

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Endangered species, Environment, Fish, Oceans, Plastic, Rivers, Sustainability, Travel, Waste and Recycling, Water, Whales
Free diving on the Great Barrier Reef. The corals are deeply threatened.

Extinction: Great Barrier Reef in Crisis

March 15, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Animals at risk, Australia, Biodiversity, Climate change, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Fish, Natural history, Oceans
Earth -our only home (GOES satellite)

Open Letter to Leaders of the World

October 6, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Animals at risk, Climate change, Conservation, Endangered species, Energy, Environment, Extinction, Science, Sustainability, Wildlife

Climate Change: New resources for readers

July 23, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Climate change, Ecology, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Opinions, Rising Waters, Science
Greater Sage-Grouse Copyright Gerrit Vyn

Sagebrush Sea: Watch it now!

July 13, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Birds, Ecology, Extinction, Film and television, Photography, Wildlife
Oceangoing turtle at the Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef: Attenborough’s New Quest

June 4, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Animals at risk, Discovery, Documentary films, Film and television, Fish, Natural history, Oceans, Travel

Now Not Tomorrow!

September 23, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Animals at risk, Climate change, Rising Waters

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