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The Prince's Farm: How Prince Charles Is Championing the Organic Movement
We were lost for twenty beautiful minutes in Tetbury, trying to find HRH's driveway. A lovely one, though. By guest blogger Peter Moore, VP/editor of Men's Health Very early on in my stroll through the...
View ArticleProgress for Sharks
In case you haven't heard, it's Shark Week. This week-long shark extravaganza on the Discovery Channel is the highlight of many TV viewers' summer calendar. Because who doesn't love sharks? Aside from...
View ArticleUnited States Moves to End Puppy Mill Imports
As a result of an announcement today from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, other nations will no longer be able to raise tens of thousands of dogs in puppy mills and flood the U.S. market with them....
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My Pit Bull Turned Me into a Superhero
Frankie, I'm a lover not a fighter (left) went from being rescued in a dog-fighting bust in FL to a certified therapy dog and breed ambassador. Photo credit: Dirty Paw Photography. Saved from a high...
View Article5 Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Improving Indoor Air Quality
"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath." ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation As humans, we take our air and breathing for granted. Each time we breathe,...
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What Is a Digital Ocean Country?
Shark week got me thinking... Do you really care about the ocean? What's beyond the shoreline may never cross your mind. Could an ocean country change that? I always wanted to be a journalist, hoping...
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Students Host an International Undergraduate Summit on Global Climate Change...
Seventeen thousand scientists, engineers, representatives from business & industry, students, and others gathered in San Francisco during the week of August 10-14 for an American Chemical Society...
View ArticleIs Your Local Park Well-Funded? If You Live in a Latino Neighborhood, Odds...
Roughly three decades ago, the U.S. Justice Department brought national attention to one of Chicago's open secrets. Park district officials lavished money on parks in white neighborhoods at the expense...
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Shining a Light on Shelter Myths
Originally published at ASPCA.org With somewhere between 5 and 7 million homeless animals entering U.S. animal shelters, it's unconscionable to suggest, as one writer did in the Washington Post, that...
View ArticleChanneling the Colorado River Delta Back From the Dead
As a matter of geographic trivia, did you ever wonder where the Colorado River drains into the ocean? That's actually kind of a trick question: it doesn't. Like too many of the world's great rivers...
View ArticleStarfish, Giant Crystals and the Amazing Tenacity of Life
Last week I returned from an annual Retreat at Indralaya on Orcas Island having experienced something unique and eye opening. I've been going up to Orcas since 1986 where I am awe struck by the...
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Wind Farm Health Impacts Dismissed in Court
Wind health impacts have been dismissed over and over again in court as opponents of wind farms attempt to prove that wind turbines harm human health. A report released by the Energy and Policy...
View ArticleDo We Really Need Another Walmart More Than We Need Wildlife?
It doesn't get much more David versus Goliath than this: In South Florida endangered butterflies and bats are clinging to the last remaining pine rockland forest habitat where a developer wants to...
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Celebrating Check the Chip Day With Happy Pet Reunion Stories
Realizing a beloved animal is missing is every pet parent's nightmare. I've had a few scares with my dog, Rio, and am always grateful that he has a microchip (and he's always grateful for the extra...
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Barbuda Sets a New Standard for Marine Protection in the Caribbean
Imagine an aqua-blue ocean vista and a salty breeze blowing as you arrive in Barbuda. Barbuda is an incredible island, strung in a larger chain of the Leeward Islands in the northeastern Caribbean....
View Article'No Blue, No Green' -- New Sylvia Earle Film Shows Power of Protecting Our...
In a beautiful new film released this Friday on Netflix, oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle describes her underwater adventures. She also explains why she is driven to protect wild oceans the way...
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The Right to Know Reader: Our Current Laws Do Not Protect You From Toxic...
Every day, just in the course of normal activities, we are exposed to an unbelievable range of toxic chemicals that we may not know about. Of the 80,000-plus chemicals that have been approved to be on...
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What Can a 19th Century Arctic Shipwreck Tell Us About the 21st Century's...
Hampton Sides has written one hell of an Arctic adventure story. In the Kingdom of Ice is the tale of Lieutenant George Washington De Long and his crew aboard the USS Jeannette who, in 1879, attempted...
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Climate Change This Week: Stormy Constipation, Solar Utility Comeback, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, Jan 16 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleInvestor Call: Enbridge's Keystone XL Clone Opens in October, Rail Facility...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogIn a recent quarter two call for investors, Enbridge Inc executives said the company's "Keystone XL" clone -- the combination of the Flanagan South and Seaway Twin pipelines...
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