Feeding Plastic Waste to Fungi
[/caption] by Giles Crosse Mushrooms are one of the planet’s most effective natural recycling systems. Can they help us fix our landfill problem? In 2008, a group of Yale undergraduates went on a trip to the Amazon to study bioremediation – a natural waste »
Protecting Oscar: “Chimpanzee” Highlights the Human Likeness of Chimpanzees
Chimps are extinct in 4 of their 25 range countries, with the total number of chimps living in the wild estimated at about 172,000-300,000, where they had numbered 1 »
The End of an Era: Canadian Government Cuts Funding for World-Renowned Experimental Lakes Area
In 1973, in one of the most famous ecological studies to date, an experiment was conducted where David Schindler and colleagues divided an entire lake in half, leaving »
Iceberg the White Orca: the Only One of His Kind?
And the excitement was shared by millions of other people around the world. FEROP estimates that more than 300 million people in at least 50 different countries have so far read about Iceberg on online news portals. »
Conservation Conversation
A profound insight into the dire status of Earth’s ecosystems, land and sea. Is this the most important conversation on our planet today?
Iceberg the White Orca: the Only One of His Kind?
Three weeks ago, scientists from the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP) released photos and videos of Iceberg, an all-white bull killer whale (Orcinus orca) which the researchers have spotted while they were studying »
The End of an Era: Canadian Government Cuts Funding for World-Renowned Experimental Lakes Area
In 1973, in one of the most famous ecological studies to date, an experiment was conducted where David Schindler and colleagues divided an entire lake in half, leaving »
Protecting Oscar: “Chimpanzee” Highlights the Human Likeness of Chimpanzees
“Chimpanzee,” the latest film produced by Disneynature, tells the touching tale of Oscar, a young chimp who loses his mother and is taken in by the most unlikely of »
Feeding Plastic Waste to Fungi
Mushrooms are one of the planet’s most effective natural recycling systems. Can they help us fix our landfill problem? »
What Canadian Mining Companies are Getting Away With
The Goldman Environmental Prize was recently awarded to Father Edwin Gariguez, a Catholic priest from the Philippines, for his activist work against a Norwegian-owned Nickel mine (the company is called Index) on »
Earth Day: Take Action
This Sunday, April 22nd marks the 42nd annual Earth Day – a day in which events are held worldwide in appreciation and celebration of our planet’s wondrous natural environment. The day was first organized in 1970 by a Wisconsin (USA) senator by the name of Gaylord »
EU and China: Sustainable Water Use Scheme
Statistics about China confirm the explosive pace at which the country has been developing in different areas over recent years. The whole world is keeping a close watch on the emerging super-power and its impact on the »
Of Disability and Conservation
Let’s be honest, we tend overuse the words ‘inspiration’ and ‘awesome‘. It can be a case of hype over content. But, when the human spirit does transform the ordinary, inspiration and awesome are totally apt. If anyone is in need of a good »
Seahorses: Animal or Antibiotic?
Everyone loves seahorses. It is often touted that they mate for life, the males carrying the babies during the gestation period. Ranging from 2-8 inches long, they swim in pairs linked by their tails. But not all is perfect in the underwater world of these tiny »
A Conversation About Water: To Spin a Turbine
A three-part article of the Conservation Conversation series, tentatively extrapolating the seemingly simple and straightforward idea of water conservation. The first part, “Resource Philosophy“, discusses »