For all the environmental reasons to rein in sprawl and conserve land and water, there are very human ones, too.
Jeff Morgan | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
Working in a vast country like China, with its long traditions of social and work cultures and particular political system, presents a number of challenges for an international conservancy.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
Earth Days, the new film that opens this weekend from acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone, is being promoted as a history of the environmental movement in the United States. But it's more of a road trip, really.
Panthera | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home
The greatest shame of this made-for-TV nonsense is that it obscures the authentic conservation efforts undertaken by thousands of passionate, anonymous professionals working in Africa today.
Philippe Cousteau | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green
The work of my grandfather, Jacques Cousteau, laid the groundwork for most of what we know about the marine world. Now, ocean acidification could spell the end of oceans as we know them.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
If you're an art collector, aficionado, or appreciator, these four tips should help you shift your collection (or simply the way you see art) into a more earth-minded endeavor.
Mary Ann West | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green
Connecticut's Exotic Animal Amnesty Day received a total of 135 exotic and potentially dangerous pets within the course of only a few hours.
Panthera | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Snow leopards are one of the most distinctive cats - stocky, covered in thick grey fur with large black rosettes, and they have small, rounded ears - an adaptation to minimize heat loss.
Kelly Meyer | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green
For decades, we have preserved iconic landscapes with wilderness areas and parks. Now, California is leading the charge to do the same underwater.
David Horton | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
Those who deny climate change believe that no environmental issue, no conservation cause, no piece of the natural world, must ever be allowed to get in the way of big profits for big business.
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...
Xeth Feinberg | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy
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Wendy Gordon | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, attitudes had changed, and "the Mistake by the Lake" sparked environmental reforms across the country.
Panthera | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
As few as 3,500 snow leopards may still roam the harsh, forbidding mountains of Central Asia. No one knows for sure.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green
Rabbits have invaded The University of Victoria campus and officials, worried that the bunnies are damaging the landscape, are considering various way...
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
BANGKOK — Selling credits for the billions of tons of carbon that are locked in Indonesia's tropical rain forests could be as profitable as conv...
Graham Hill | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green
While climate woes are real and we need to respond to them, there are other reasons to rethink how we now are in the world.
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.
Panthera | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
In the science of describing cat behavior -- or any wildlife species for that matter -- a compelling question is, how connected are individuals to each other?
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.27.2009 | Style
Though I admit to shallowness, cosmetics and toiletries were trappings of my middle class comfort.
Panthera | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green
Sold legally to farmers for their crops, Furadan is all too accessible to herders, ranchers and pastoralists who use it to poison predators which might kill their livestock.
Rep. Mike Thompson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
Since Congress passed my provisions to enhance these tax benefits on a temporary basis in 2006, we've seen a fifty percent increase in conservation easements.
Robert Stavins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green
What has long been considered the obvious answer to collapsing fisheries -- restrictions on fishing -- has been shown time and time again to be the wrong answer. The right answer is enlightened use of markets.
Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Nearly a third of the 800 species of birds in the United States are endangered, threatened or in decline. The decline of birds is a warning sign about the overall health of our environment -- or lack thereof.
Larry Coben | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green
The cleanest, greenest, cheapest and most secure energy is the energy we don't use. The empirical evidence from Chile is overwhelming and proves the savings.
Ernest Cook | Posted 09.20.2009 | New York