animals
Every year around this time, roughly 1,000 polar bears hang out by the Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba waiting for the Hudson Bay to freeze. And every year, like clockwork, tourists head to the area hoping to catch a glimpse of one of these beloved, endangered bears.
Can’t make… Read the rest
“If ya gotta jimmy hat go ahead and….” save the coquí guajón rock frog? Well that’s not what Willie D of the Geto Boys said, but the Center for Biological Diversity has different plans than him. Their plans includes giving out a 100,000 Endangered Species Condoms in 2011 after dispensing… Read the rest
This video has all the necessary elements to make anyone smile, or laugh. It’s got slipping penguins, shoving penguins, cute penguins and diving penguins. It’s Friday, a.k.a. the lazy day of the week, so sit back and spend a minute an 27 seconds of your day watching these flightless seabirds… Read the rest
A team of researchers in Israel and the United Kingdom have discovered that the Oriental hornet has the ability to capture and harvest the power of the sun through its small brown and yellow body.
The discovery came about in part because of the unusual behavior of Oriental hornets; unlike… Read the rest
Fossil Creek is a newly preserved wilderness area that may again be at risk due to the very efforts meant to protect it. In a video from Assignment Earth, producer Jay Canode tells the story of a beautiful river that flows through the Mazatzal Mountains of Central Arizona. With the… Read the rest
Today is my one year anniversary of cartooning for Wend!
Thanks, Wend (Kyle, Sami and the rest of the WEND team)!
EARTH has PETA’s back.
Keeley Hazell: Don’t Wear Fur (PETA, NSFW)
Naked protest against fur coats in Barcelona
PETA Celebrates National Topless Day
…Speaking of nudity, my last nude… Read the rest
If you’ve ever wanted to visit one of the world’s rainforests (and really, who hasn’t?), now you can, without even leaving your house. But the point isn’t to encourage laziness. Rather, it’s to bring people closer to nature in order to foster more care for it.
The World Land Trust… Read the rest
The oil spill disaster continues with new numbers that show the amount of oil gushing from a well in the Gulf of Mexico may be double as much as previously thought. This means the crude is likely to travel farther away, threatening more birds, fish and other wildlife that live… Read the rest
With government support, a huge land purchase by conservationists protects prime habitat for grizzlies, mountain lions and other sensitive species. In order to maintain wilderness habitat in the Swan Valley of Montana, The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land has bought and set aside 367,000 acres in the… Read the rest
An 800-foot oil tanker and a small barge collided in Port Arthur, Texas yesterday, causing up to 450,000 gallons of oil to spill into the water. The Coast Guard says the spill was contained to a two mile area, and that no nearby animals were hurt, but no further details… Read the rest
