News & More
The Matter of One Meadow: Yosemite’s New Addition
Yosemite National Park is growing. Here, now, in 2016, that’s a statement I never thought I would be able to make.
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News & More
No More Warnings: the Results of Climate Change Are Here
Close your eyes and picture a world with no more dire warnings about climate change and what will happen if we do nothing to stem its tide. Envision seeing no more graphs of the projected spread of CO2 emissions, illustrated by neon swirls.
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Videos
Video: Old Photos Allow Us to Watch Greenland Melt
Thanks to some newly discovered aerial photographs from the 1930s, we can now see the retreat of some Greenland glaciers through time. Watch!
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News & More
Memorial to Loss: the Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory
We’re currently living in the midst of what scientists call the sixth mass extinction, the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years.
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Conservation
Renewables Energize a Sustainable Future for the Galapagos Islands
This is the summer of exciting initiatives and new, hopeful directions for the future of the Galapagos Islands. In March, Ecuadorian President signed a decree to create a protected marine sanctuary of 15,000 square miles around the islands. Following the incredible accomplishment of protecting marine ecosystems, the Galapagos National Park will be managed by the newly appointed Africa Besones.
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News & More
Dead Bees on Washington: Does the Environmental “Now” Ever Come?
Just two weeks ago, June 20-26, 2016, we celebrated the annual National Pollinator Week—or you may have observed it if you knew it was National Pollinator Week. Most likely, you didn’t. Some beekeepers would like to change that. One, in particular.
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Nature & Wildlife
Nature is worth protecting
Remember when you were young? Did you play outside? Did you explore? World Wildlife Fund and Natural Habitat Adventures have teamed up with Maser Films, Pongo Media and King Tide Motion Pictures to ask these and many other questions we tend to forget as time and life’s responsibilities loom over us.
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News & More
Family Politics: Ranking Climate Change
My sister and I, like most sisters, share a lot in common. But we don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to politics. Yesterday, she told me that in this election year, environmental issues rank third on her list of concerns, behind that of building a strong nation and public safety.
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News & More
President Talks about Climate Change in Yosemite National Park: Is It Too Late?
On the day before Father’s Day 2016, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park.
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News & More
Plants and People: Moving to Antarctica for Good—or Bad?
With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?
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Conservation
Bhutan: The World’s First Carbon-negative Country
Bhutan is famously known for replacing the traditional economic concept of GDP (gross domestic product) with the Gross National Happiness index, an objective measure of the well being of its environment, communities, culture, health and wisdom, among others.
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News & More
What Size Wilderness?
Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest in November 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed the death just two weeks ago, on April 25, 2016.