Natural World

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

Umbra's Just Bee-Cause

Tweet for the bees 4
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day 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 1 month 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 1 month 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

On thinner ice

New photography project provides stark proof of melting glaciers on the roof of the world 1
Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago by Joseph Romm
Global warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers. Mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears has a new video comparing glacier images from the “roof of the world.” Read More
thanks for nothing

Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 3
Posted 2 days, 5 hours ago by Brad Johnson
Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global warming, caused $1.6 billion in agriculture damage in Louisiana alone. Now it appears that a Thanksgiving mainstay -- pumpkin pie -- is next on the global boiling hit list. Read More
What would Jacques do?

If Cousteau went to Copenhagen 0
Posted 2 days, 7 hours ago by Brad Matsen
If Jacques Cousteau, legendary undersea explorer, were alive today, what he would he tell the gaggle of international delegates heading to Copenhagen in December for those critical climate talks? Cousteau biographer Brad Matsen speculates. Read More
Life Magazine ad breaks my brain

Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers! 12
Posted 3 days, 8 hours ago by David Roberts
The greatest oil ad of all time, from 1962. Read More
things that go pumpkin the night

The most frightening story this Halloween is ... pumpkintop removal 1
Posted 3 weeks, 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 2
Posted 3 weeks, 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 4 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 1 week 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
Tipping toward disaster

At SEJ, doom and gloom without the sense of humor 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week 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
Meet your new national parks chief 7
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago by Jonathan Hiskes
Arctic Sea ice 101 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Gulf dead zone fix falls flat 6
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Erik Hoffner
Our parks in peril 6
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Mary Bruno
Sting sends a Rainforests SOS 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
If REDD can’t save this…. 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks 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, 3 weeks ago by Richard Heinberg
Scientists identify “safe operating space for humanity” in seminal Nature study 20
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago by David Roberts
Sen. Ben Cardin answers Grist’s questions on public transit and mountaintop removal mining 0
Posted 2 months ago by David Roberts
Plastic bags are the enemy of the ocean 2
Posted 2 months ago