Of course the best article (or close to, anyway) I’ve ever read about climate change would come from a fake newspaper. The Onion… Read the rest‘s recent “We Need to Do More When it Comes to Having Brief, Panicked Thoughts About Climate Change,” is likely the most accurate piece on the climate
While we Americans basked in our holiday weekend and enjoyed some barbecue, a crocodile hunter and some local villagers in the Philippines caught a beast of a crocodile. Weighing in at 2,375 pounds and measuring 21 feet in length, the massive reptile is believed to have snacked on some water… Read the rest
Don’t even think about trashing that plastic milk bottle instead of recycling it. In fact, don’t get a one-use bottle in the first place. What goes around, comes around.… Read the rest
With the news today that another person was mauled by a grizzly mother keeping her cubs safe in Yellowstone, comes a story from the Grand Teton National Park about a group of people trying to keep the peace between tourists and bears.
The Grand Teton Wildlife Brigade was established in… Read the rest
File this one under ‘things it’s easy to forget about.’ There was a great article on Slate … Read the restlast week in which writer Brian Palmer asked and answered a pretty interesting question: how far does one have to ride on a bicycle to cancel out the carbon that went in to
I probably don’t even need to say it, but: one-use plastics suck. Thanks to our disposable culture, we’re not only filling our landfills with the synthetic products, basically made to never disappear completely, but also our waterways and oceans, and pretty much everywhere else.
Thankfully, it isn’t just the environmentally-conscious… Read the rest
The wildfire blazing in eastern Arizona’s Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is burning more acres of land than any other fire in the state’s history, though some of that area is in New Mexico, where it skipped along treetops, threatening the small working-class community of Luna.
The Wallow Fire, as it is… Read the rest
Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester have wasted no time so far in this 112th session of Congress. The two introduced legislation on Monday that, if passed, would protect the western border of Montana’s Glacier National Park from energy development.
Though it would not halt the timber industry or… Read the rest
Researchers at the Missouri Botanical Garden have discovered eight new plant species that lie in Madidi National Park and the surrounding areas in Bolivia, according to a recent press release. Researchers have classified the new species into several different genera and families.
All but one of the new species were… Read the rest
Before this week, the last known sighting of a Sierra Nevada red fox was in the 1920s. The species, thought to be extinct, has been discovered (alive) just north of Yosemite National Park.
“The genetic signature of canine slobber on a bait bag of chicken scraps and a fuzzy photograph… Read the rest
