The lemur, a furry primate that symbolizes Madagascar's unique biodiversity, is under renewed threat from a "timber mafia" pillaging the island's fore...
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green
This Thursday, a butterfly vivarium was inaugurated in Colombia. The vivarium holds 500 butterflies of over 20 species, and is intended to spread awar...
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
In honor of the underwater meeting that the Maldives' Cabinet held on Saturday to raise awareness about the threat of climate change, HuffPost Green t...
Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact
On the heels of completing a marathon on behalf of a national eating disorder association, musician Alanis Morisette has pledged to run another. She i...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Madagascar has one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems - and is the only place that lemurs live in the wild. Sadly, it has lost nearly 90% of it...
Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green
In light of Ken Burns' documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea and a recent report that lists "National Parks in Peril," we're featuring 9...
The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific isla...
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
As long as we remain a bioilliterate populace of which only the wealthiest 0.1% can afford to have an expert interpret the hieroglyphics, and only lions and other celebrity species attract our interest, then we will continue to turn the dazzling diversity of life into cannon fodder.
Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style
Cooking for ourselves is something people did for hundreds and hundreds of years and now we don't do it. The loss of this in our culture strikes me as profound.
Reuters | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green
More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the Internation...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Next time you travel somewhere exotic, don't be surprised if you see fewer kinds of animals and hear fewer dialects
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green
A disturbing trend has developed in which mainstream right-of-center pundits are regressing on issues of environmental protection.
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
$3 million to endow a research station in perpetuity, to secure the continued flow of knowledge and to rest easy that passionate people will be around to advocate for many voiceless species? That's the bargain of the century.
TEDTalks | Posted 05.27.2009 | World
Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering new, deadly viruses where they first emerge.
Tri Robinson | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green
Heirloom seed will continue to serve humanity as long as there are stewards who understand their value and continue to protect their integrity.
TEDTalks | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living
Armed with blood samples, high-tech tools and a small army of fieldworkers, Nathan Wolfe hopes to re-invent pandemic control.
Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
We can all can live together; life naturally loves other living things. We can break these shackles, this Neoclassical globalization economic nonsense we've been deluded by for so long.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
Would you like a family of beavers moving into your backyard? Seems this primarily nocturnal, semi-aquatic rodent could be returning to Europe after centuries of extinction.
Matthew Owen | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
We need to take every meaningful step possible to offset climate change and there is no better way to do so than protecting endangered rainforests.
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 02.24.2009 | Green
The fundamental challenge facing dung beetles is, unsurprisingly, finding dung. Time is of the essence -- arrive late and you might find that another poo pirate has stolen the prize.
Wired | Alexis Madrigal | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green
Like a negative image of farmers breeding progressively larger chickens and cows, human hunters are making their prey become progressively smaller. A...
Reuters | Pete Harrison | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green
STRASBOURG, France - Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival, a lead...
Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 12.07.2008 | Green
We're saddened to learn that the alien-looking Axolotl salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum), aka Mexican walking fish or Mexican water monster, is serious...
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green
In many cases, the observed patterns in nature are indeed different from those expected under the assumption of randomness.
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green
Is presenting a unified front really a prerequisite for getting what you want in the political sphere?
The Guardian | David Smith in Berenty, Madagascar | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green