environment

It was just before the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve in Arkansas when hundreds of birds began falling out of the sky. Now, Arkansas wildlife biologists are investing the death of over 1,000 blackbirds and starlings by examining a small portion of the deceased birds’ bodies. Although scientists… Read the rest

The Shanghai Ocean Aquarium drew extra attention last Sunday, as a waterlogged Santa Claus joined the fish for a swim. But the point wasn’t just to inspire Christmas cheer; the ‘Swimming Santa’, as he’s called, was hoping to inspire conservation efforts.
With the purpose of catching people’s attention, the Shanghai… Read the rest

Rolling behind the car at 78 miles per hour, Lane Segerstrom, founder of Stalk It Skateboards, officially set a Guinness World Record for the fastest speed on a towed skateboard. Segerstrom’s new record, set on December 6th of this year, beat the previous 74-mile-per-hour record (2008) held by Danny Way… Read the rest

Ever since the fateful Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, BP has been presenting the public with short videos on the web that document their response efforts. Now, according to the New York Times, BP is commissioning a feature-length documentary about the oil spill.
According to BP, the intent of… Read the rest

It seems to us that there’s a new trend in eco-awareness campaigns, and it comes in the form of music videos. A few weeks ago we showed you a pretty hilarious commercial from a British producer of organic dairy products, in which a group of young organic farmers rap about… Read the rest

Several natural gas companies currently have stakes in the Marcellus shale geographic formation–a rock bed beneath the Appalachian mountains that literally stretches from West Virginia to New York–and which is thought to have ample quantities of natural gas reserves. The problem is, these reserves span below about 33 National Parks… Read the rest

Timberland’s line of eco-friendly boots (“Earthkeepers“) are made with recycled plastic bottles–each contains a bottle and a half, to be exact. So it’s fitting that their new ad campaign centers around the plastic bottle–and saving it from ending up anywhere other than where it belongs–in a Timberland shoe, no doubt.… Read the rest

The global environmental campaign 10:10 is committed to cutting carbon emissions by 10 percent starting now–in 2010. It’s so committed, in fact, that a recent 10:10 U.K campaign video features teachers nonchalantly blowing up students uninterested in cutting emissions… causing global uproar and concern over 10:10′s “Eco-Fascist” agenda.
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Consider a day when the saying, “Go outside and get some fresh air” is obsolete. Now consider we’re partly there. A recent global study undertaken by two Japanese scientists determined that Bisphenol A (BPA)–the widely recognized and utilized industrial chemical that coats plastics and aluminum cans, among other things–is floating… Read the rest

The Frontier … Read the restis an independent documentary that aims to celebrate the relationship between coastal Louisiana’s people and their natural surroundings. In celebrating locals and their environment, the film also serves to raise awareness about the environment–specifically the ecological and industrial threats to Coastal Louisiana–threats that could destroy its landscape as