Ego | Eco: The Fall From Disgrace
In the wake of Earth day, we invite you to add a caption to this image in the comments below to add your own flavor to the process it describes. Author's caption: The Fall From Disgrace. »
Food is the New Oil, Land is the New Gold
“Food is the new oil,” declares Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, in an interview just published in Handshake. With tightening world food supplies, Brown discusses how food security has become one of »
Singapore's Giant 'Supertrees' at Gardens by the Bay
Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, featuring giant vertical gardens known as Supertrees, is nearing completion and preparing for its grand opening on 29th June. The Gardens by the Bay were designed by Grant Associates »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Wildlife and Nature Photography
PREVIOUS: The Invention of Photography Our surrounding environment, nature and wildlife are all compelling photography subjects. To get up close to wild animals, plants and be a part of the landscape is very compelling. You soon learn about animal behaviour as well as »
The Man Who Planted Trees – Book Review
Moving beyond his interesting past and connection in his mission to save the world’s forests, David Milarch is engaging in an innovative and potentially groundbreaking grassroots effort to ensure that our lack of »
Green Groups to Black-out Websites in Protest of Canadian Government Policies
Major environmental groups in Canada are going to shut down their websites on June 4 in order to protest a bill that would supersede National Energy Board decisions and »
10 Playful Panda Photos From Chengdu
Pandas, otherwise jokingly and lovingly referred to by me in Chinese as ‘又胖又大’ [yòu pàng yòu dà] – literally translated as both chubby and big – are probably my favorite animal. »
10 Awesome Reminders of Nature’s Elegance
Every once in a while we need to remind ourselves that the Earth’s beauty doesn’t just rely on human beings and human creations and that Mother Nature produces things that go above and beyond what we can »
Behind the Scenes at Alden Laboratory
Alden Laboratory specializes in solving water flow-related engineering and environmental problems. The firm provides physical and computational air, gas, and hydraulic modeling along with environmental »
Taking Out the Trash in United By Blue
While the Green Movement has been steadily gaining speed over the last few years, there is another similar idea that has yet to see its name in lights: the Blue Movement, AKA, the fight to save our world’s oceansand »
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 »