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Recent estimates that there might be up 10 million species begs another question, this one asked not by your six-year-old daughter, but by her annoying little friend: "Who cares how many?"
Given that most East Coasters live just a couple of hours' drive from great national parks and the Atlantic coast, this paucity of nature in our children's lives is hard to understand and harder still to accept.
Looking for an authentic island escape? Here are the 10 purest, wildest and most eco-friendly islands, based on their efforts to preserve culture and ecology.
While reading the Quran I was struck by the number of times God asks us to seek wisdom, use our reason and look at evidence in nature and history in order to grow deeper in faith.
A local Seattle radio had a plan to commemorate 9/11 -- release 3,000 balloons. Do we really want to commemorate 9/11 by killing more of our fellow creatures?
If you were BP, wouldn't you wait for the right time to go back to the U.S. government to ask for more permits to drill? What would seem like a good time to do that?
Why does the Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services' program spend taxpayers money to kill over 27,000 beavers every year?
Because more and more research is validating an undeniable link between the natural environment and mental health, it should come as no surprise that as alienation from nature increases, so does depression.
The concept of 'wilderness' has long existed in Western culture as a place of pristine natural beauty unpolluted by human life. These policies neglect indigenous tribal peoples for whom such 'wild' places were once merely 'home'.
First came science fiction — with brave new worlds, meteors, earthquakes, and rising sea levels causing mass exodus, war, and worse — and ...
Good professors know that discussing nature in the confines of a classroom is not likely to stir the soul, no matter how enlightening the lesson. What awakens, they realize, is experience. Getting hands dirty. Immersion.
Psychological scientists suspected that most people don't believe in the emotional benefits of nearby nature ... They wanted to disprove this notion by showing that even short nature walks can increase one's sense of well-being.
The evidence is clear: oil companies cannot be trusted with our treasured places -- and that includes the Arctic refuge.
Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I want to get out more in...
A group of seven teenagers who'd been learning survival skills in the Alaska wilderness were attacked Saturday night by a brown bear sow with cub.
What's worse?: paying the bills and what's owed to peeps of this country or being viewed worldwide as "bad creditors" and defaulting? Then, what? We get smacked with higher interests and yoda, yoda, yoda.
