Following last month’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake, Chinese officials originally reported that all 86 of the giant pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve were safe. They were wrong.
Thousands of new species were discovered and described in 2007, highlighting how little is known about the breathtaking variety of life on Earth. Ten of the newly-described species were highlighted …
Last week, the president of Kiribati (pronounced “Kiribass”) — a nation of 33 atolls, scattered across two million square miles of the central Pacific Ocean — warned that rising sea levels have doomed his country of 92,000 people.
Over the weekend, the Midwest suffered some of the largest flooding ever recorded in the region. Some officials worry that this week’s deluge could rival the floods of 1993, which caused about $20 billion in damage.
Last year, in the wake of massive honeybee die-outs, the Senate passed Resolution 580, “recognizing the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture in the United States and the value of partnership efforts to increase awareness about pollinators and support for protecting and sustaining pollinators.”
The NJ State Department of Environmental Protection is catching flack for the decision to cut protection for more than 200 miles of streams that provide key drinking water supplies around the state.
The African Environmental Film Foundation is working on a documentary about a man on a quest to save sea turtles.
Before Big Brown’s heartbreaking last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes last weekend, Charlie Rose visited the contender’s barn and spoke to his trainer, owner, and jockey about the horse’s chance to become the first thoroughbred to capture the Triple Crown since 1978.
The horseshoe crab, a crustacean that resembles an armored vehicle patrolling the beach, is one of the most useful creatures in the sea — a trait that could doom it to extinction.
Now that it’s hot as, well, Africa here in New York City, the gorillas at the Bronx Zoo’s Gorilla Forest will be out and about their leafy habitats.
