Published on January 31st, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
You remember the spectacular rock climb at Half Dome a few weeks ago? In a more remote part of California’s Yosemite National Park, a motion-sensitive camera placed by Forest Service wildlife biologists has twice recorded another unusual ... Read More →
Published on January 29th, 2015 | by Derek Markham
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. If you’d like to help shape the direction of sustainable investments, without putting a dime of your own into the pot, here’s your chance. Oroeco, the company that believes that it should ... Read More →
Published on January 27th, 2015 | by Cynthia Shahan
1 commentA recent Floridians For Solar Choice news release relates a breakthrough for Florida and hopefully a bright note for diversity in a backwards state. A broad coalition of Floridians have put forward a ballot initiative for more renewable energy ... Read More →
Published on January 24th, 2015 | by James Ayre
Masdar City will soon be home to an ‘innovative’ new energy + agriculture pilot project that’ll seek to efficiently produce both food and biofuel feedstock, according to recent reports. The project will aim to transform desert land ... Read More →
Published on January 23rd, 2015 | by James Ayre
One of the most endangered primates, and the most endangered chimpanzee subspecies in the world — the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) — is likely to see its numbers plummet over the coming years, according to ... Read More →
Published on January 22nd, 2015 | by Derek Markham
Think plastic pollution in the ocean is somebody else’s problem? Think again. The “environmental abomination” of plastic pollution, and its effects on the world’s oceans, is a disaster in the making, and one that will affect ... Read More →
Published on January 21st, 2015 | by James Ayre
1 commentThe ongoing ‘gold rush’ occurring in the tropical forests of South America has led to extensive deforestation over the last few years, new research from the University of Puerto Rico has found. Gold-mining in the region ... Read More →
Published on January 21st, 2015 | by James Ayre
5 commentsNew research from the University of Arizona has shown us yet another example of the many ways in which GMO-crops (genetically modified organisms) fail to live up to the hype. In this case, the research found ... Read More →
Published on January 20th, 2015 | by Derek Markham
If you follow the science, climate change is a very real, and potentially very disruptive, influence on just about every human activity. And while climate change journalism has been making huge strides in continuing to bring ... Read More →
Published on January 19th, 2015 | by James Ayre
Another day, another batch of fascinating videos taken by camera-trap in the Bili Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rather than forest elephants this time, or leopards eating/destroying cameras, we’ve got a variety of ... Read More →
Published on January 17th, 2015 | by James Ayre
Human activity has pushed 4 out of 9 of the processes that the stability of life on the planet is dependent upon past the point-of-no-return, according to new research from an international consortium of scientists across ... Read More →
