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Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary: BP Disaster's Impact On Children

Posted by Angel on Friday, 20 April 2012 in Oil Spill

SOUTH PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. -- Julie Creppel raises six children here, steps away from the lapping waves of the Gulf of Mexico. Her modest mobile home, on a narrow peninsula roughly an hour and a half south of New Orleans, puts her about as close as anyone to where, two years ago today, ...

Tar Sand oil update

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 in Fossil Fuels

You might not know this, but Canada has oil reserves of 170 billion barrels, more than Iran and Nigeria combined. This fact is not widely known since much of that oil has been considered “not economically recoverable,”lying deep underground in a mixture of bitumen, a thick, tarry substance, sand and...

Earth Day 2012 - Protect the Earth

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 14 April 2012 in Sustainable Development

Earth Day is happening on On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Protect the Earth. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Together we will stand uni...

Less Lip, More Action: Time to Connect Kids With Nature

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 12 April 2012 in Agriculture

It's no surprise that conversations across the country continue on the need to advance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. By 2014, about 2 million STEM-related jobs will be created, and over the years this number will grow. Every week, discussions take place on Capi...

The Navy and Rare Whales

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 29 March 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Environmentalists asked a federal judge Thursday to decide whether the Navy must halt plans to build a $100 million offshore training range because of potential threats to endangered right whales. The Navy wants to install an undersea array of cables and sensors for training warships, sub...

Dolphins Dying in the Gulf

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Earth Violators

Over 675 wild dolphins have been stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since February 2010. Most of them were found dead, but 33 were alive and seven were taken to rehabilitation centers. The average number of dolphin strandings for the northern Gulf is 74 per year, according to NOAA. So...

Invader nears gate to Lake Erie

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

In the grassy belly of a wetland known as Eagle Marsh, Mother Nature decides what water she will send down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and which will end up in Lake Erie via the Maumee River. When one of those adjacent watersheds harbors a finned toxin such as the dreaded ...

As oceans grow more acidic, marine life suffers

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

If you drive, fertilize your lawn, or buy sushi, you could be contributing to the demise of coral reefs. Scientists call coral reefs the rainforests of the ocean, because these vibrant habitats support so much and such diverse life. But worldwide, coral reefs face serious threats. Paulo Maurin, e...

Can we keep discussions about ocean acidification honest?

Posted by Angel on Monday, 16 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

In his article, ‘Taking Fears of Acid Oceans with a Grain of Salt’, Matt Ridley recycles the standard arsenal of invalid climate ‘skeptic’ arguments and tactics, but applies them to ocean acidification, the lesser known global impact from rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The result is a...

Global Warming Could Delay Next Ice Age

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 in Climate Change

The next ice age could be delayed by tens of thousands of years due to excessive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which disrupts Earth’s natural cycle of warming and cooling, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. analyzed ice core and marine sediment data from one mil...

Can This Baby Polar Bear Save His Species?

Posted by Angel on Monday, 02 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Siku, a polar bear cub born in captivity in Denmark, has taken the Internet by storm. It's not a surprise, he's so cute! When Siku was born at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park November 22, 2011 his mother had not produced milk for three years. "Instead of leaving the cub to die we decided to try to ...

Chemistry as the language of life

Posted by Angel on Monday, 02 January 2012 in Sustainable Development

Mark Hay Monday, January 02, 2012 Functioning largely by sight and sound, humans are poorly equipped to understand the importance of chemical signals among organisms. We pay to go to museums and concerts where we see and hear; we rarely pay to go to "displays" of smell. In contrast, most organis...

Bullying the EU on Global Warming

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 in Climate Change

It's been obvious for some time now that the Obama administration's promises to fight global warming are in mothballs. But it's still shocking to see Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attack the 27 European countries that are actually trying to do something about the greatest environmental challeng...

How to have a GREEN Christmas

Posted by Angel on Friday, 23 December 2011 in Buy Local

The Christmas season is upon us and while it’s the happiest time of the year, it can also be the most wasteful. White Christmases are overrated — this year, make sure you, your family and your friends have a green Christmas! Here are a few tips to get you started: Your Christmas ...

Agony and Ivory - China's Hunt for Ivory

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 18 December 2011 in Earth Violators

Highly emotional and completely guileless, elephants mourn their dead—and across Africa, they are grieving daily as demand from China’s “suddenly wealthy” has driven the price of ivory to $700 a pound or more. With tens of thousands of elephants being slaughtered each year for their tusks, raising t...

The 2012 WWF Earth Hour Awards are now open!

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 18 December 2011 in Environmental Heroes

In 2011, the fifth year of the Earth Hour campaign, WWF-Australia introduced the WWF Earth Hour Awards to celebrate the grassroots efforts of everyday Australians going ‘beyond the hour’ for the planet. As we enter the second year of the Awards, we're pleased to re-launch last year's favourite ...

Earth Hour 2011: Hanan Hassan and Julia Lin, champions of EnviroKids – Young Panda Award Winners. / ©: WWF-Australia

Environmental Movement Plots Future

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 in Sustainable Development

The future of environmentalism in Connecticut just might be economic development. At the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters' 12th Annual Environmental Summit in Hartford Tuesday afternoon, it was growth, not blocking bulldozers, that got the old hands and activists chattering. Sure,...

Global warming: winners and losers

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 01 December 2011 in Climate Change

Global warming has brought a new normal to the Arctic, with warmer air and ocean temperatures, thinner and less expansive summer sea ice, and greener vegetation in coastal regions abutting the open water. In addition, longer periods of open water during the annual sea-ice melt season is allowing th...

Free Health Care Treats Occupy Wall Street

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 19 November 2011 in Human Health

Late last month, a group of physicians calling itself Doctors for the 99 Percent marched from Zuccotti Park to the now-shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests and call for universal health care. While the group's demand for free care for all has yet g...

Japan's Radioactive Farmland

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 in Agriculture

Nuclear fallout in farmland in eastern Japan is worse than expected. Now officials have a map of exactly where they should concentrate regulatory and clean-up efforts. In July the Japanese government expanded its Fukushima Evacuation Zone and banned shipments of beef that consumed radioactive hay f...