Natural World

What�s going on with the birds, bees, flowers, and trees

Umbra's Just Bee-Cause

Tweet for the bees 0
Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago by Umbra Fisk
Find out how you can support honeybee research, the lazy way -- plus, a second chance to drink in Umbra's incredible bee hugs video! Read More
Octopus(sy) Galore

James Bond calls for more marine protected areas 5
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago by Erik Hoffner
The feds and the fishing industry aren't interested in new marine protected areas, but ocean advocates sure are. They get the message out with a new PSA starring Pierce Brosnan and a few other familiar faces. Read More
Trouble with chicks

Where the Sahara meets the Atlantic 0
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Tim Bromfield
The Banc d'Arguin, where the Sahara meets the Atlantic in Mauritania, is a staging post for over two million exhausted migratory birds from Europe and Siberia. This vital geographic point is threatened by climate change. Read More

More Natural World

things that go pumpkin the night

The most frightening story this Halloween is ... pumpkintop removal 1
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago by Ashley Braun
I want to draw attention to one of the gravest -- but least publicized -- environmental crimes of our times. It is one of brutal violence, utter waste, and total disregard for the earth's resources. Yes, I'm referring to ... pumpkintop removal. Read More
Open Letter from a Coal River resident

Dear Mr. President: We face a national security threat on Coal River Mountain 1
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago by Bo Webb
I write to you in a moment of urgency. In your address at MIT last week, you told students that the “Pentagon has declared our dependence on fossil fuels to be a security threat.” Here in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, our mountain communities face a security threat that calls for immediate federal intervention. Read More
Oil spill a ‘massive’ risk to Australian marine species 3
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Agence France-Presse
A massive oil and gas leak off Australia's northwest coast was killing seabirds and threatening thousands of marine animals, conservationists warned Friday. Read More
Will Manchin Defend Coalfield Residents or Absentee Big Coal?

Coalfield uprising leads to arrests at W.Va. gov’s office 6
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Jeff Biggers
As a supportive crowd sang, "This land is your land, this land is my land," seven peaceful sit-in activists were arrested in Governor Joe Manchin's office at the West Virginia state capitol Monday evening. The act of civil disobedience was made in protest of current mountaintop removal coal mining practices. Read More
Why Branson and SuperFreakonomics are wrong, in pictures 33
Posted 3 weeks ago by David Roberts
Sir Richard Branson believes that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would create a more sustainable society. The authors of SuperFreakonomics agree. But these pictures tell a very different story. Read More
Brazil’s Lula vows to slow rate of Amazon deforestation 0
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago by Agence France-Presse
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday he will offer to reduce the pace of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest by 80 percent by 2020 when he attends December's global climate talks in Copenhagen. Read More
A poke in the eye for corporate control

Nobel Prize in economics a big boost to commons and blow to corporate control 1
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago by Daniel Moss
You'll be hearing a lot about the "commons" for the next few days. It's about time. There are celebrations taking place around the world -- and not just by people, but maybe in the plant and animal kingdoms as well -- for Oslo's award of the Nobel Prize for Economics to Elinor Ostrom. Read More
Nobel economics prize goes to woman who studies natural resources 2
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago by Agence France-Presse
Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research seen as highly topical in the wake of the economic crisis and amid efforts to tackle climate change. Read More
Tipping toward disaster

At SEJ, doom and gloom without the sense of humor 0
Posted 4 weeks ago by Robert McClure
Climate change panels at the annual Society for Environmental Journalists meeting are rarely cheerful events. But this afternoon's session on global warming as a national security issue was an even darker affair than usual. Read More
this land is his land

Meet your new national parks chief 7
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago by Jonathan Hiskes
National Parks are not going down without a fight, says newly confirmed park service director Jonathan Jarvis. Read More
Arctic Sea ice 101 0
Posted 1 month ago
NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner gives us a look at the state of the Arctic Sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA’s role in monitoring the cryosphere. Read More
Bioreactor reaction

Gulf dead zone fix falls flat 6
Posted 1 month ago by Erik Hoffner
It's good to see a big Midwest "land grant" agricultural program that's concerned about the Gulf Dead Zone, and upper Midwest farms' large contribution to it. Read More
Our parks in peril 6
Posted 1 month ago by Mary Bruno
Sting sends a Rainforests SOS 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
If REDD can’t save this…. 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago by Margaret Swink
Is the global oil tank half-full, is it half-empty … or are we running on fumes? 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago by Richard Heinberg
Scientists identify “safe operating space for humanity” in seminal Nature study 20
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by David Roberts
Sen. Ben Cardin answers Grist’s questions on public transit and mountaintop removal mining 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by David Roberts
Greenland icesheet could melt faster than thought, study says 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Agence France-Presse
Plastic bags are the enemy of the ocean 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The end of welfare water and the drying of the West 7
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Chip Ward
Activists drape Niagara Falls with banner to protest tar-sands oil 6
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Joshua Kahn Russell