Ecology

How I Stopped Being a Panicky Perfectionist: The Freedom of an Eco-mind

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Transparency, Oxford University Press, Ecology, Perfectionism, Liberation, Perfectionist, Media Transparency, Media, Culture News

What's the cure for my perfectionist affliction? It's to rethink what it means to be a public intellectual. I am actually a public learner, a co-creator of iterative knowledge, not a deliverer of once-and-for-all facts.

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Waterkeepers Washington File Amicus Brief in State Supreme Court Case Over Non-Point Source Water Pollution

Bart Mihailovich | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Waterkeepers Washington, Washington Water Polution, Washington State Water Polution, Ecology, Joseph Lemire Washington, Washington Water Ways, Joseph Lemire, Ecology Washington, Pataha Creek, Green News

The threat to weaken environmental regulations and oversight is increasing. Nonpoint source pollution is the largest threat to water quality in Washington. It's pervasiveness requires a state-wide regulatory scheme.

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Tiny Bugs Do Dirty Work For Meat-Eating Plants

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Plants, Carnivorous Plants, Video, Ecology, Insect Behavior, Biology, New Research, Ants, Insects, Symbiosis, Animals, Symbiotic Relationship, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 05/09/2012 05:32 PM EDT on LiveScience Carnivorous plants can have valuable allies in ants,...

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Island's Peculiar Plan to Kill Out-Of-Control Species

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Acetaminophen, Snake, Biology, Boiga Irregularis, Brown Snake, Invasive Species, Slidewide, Wildlife Conservation, Zoology, Animals, Video, Ecology, Guam Snakes, Brown Tree Snake, Poison Mice, Guam, Science News

Brown tree snakes in Guam have wildlife officials there seeing red. That's why the officials are air-dropping poisoned mice as a lethal treat for the ...

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Five Natural Sites Where Humans Threaten Biodiversity (PHOTOS)

Laura DiMugno | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Barrier Reef, World Heritage Sites, Poaching, Conservation, Habitat, Pollution, Animals, Everglades, Endangered, Ecology, Nature, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Madagascar, Deforestation, Wildlife, Slidepollajax, Green News

Sadly, 35 of 200+ sites designated as natural World Heritage properties are considered in danger and face threats such as pollution, human armed conflict, poaching, uncontrolled urbanization, and unchecked tourism and development.

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Scourge: Illegal Aliens in our Midst

Paul Schwennesen | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Environment, Politics, Environmentalism, Ecology, Non-Natives, Aldo Leopold, Illegal Aliens, Satire, Conservation, National Invasive Species Council, Green News

Extreme attempts to stifle illegal human immigration are as counterproductive as extreme attempts to stifle life's ecological imperative.

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Penguin Population Shows Surprising Shift In New Satellite-Based Tally

Reuters | Pauline Askin | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Census, Penguin Population, Video, Antarctica, Ecology, Reuters, Birds, Satellite Mapping, Endangered Species, Animal-Populations, Animals, Penguins, Science News

By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (Reuters) - Counting emperor penguins in their icy Antarctic habitat was not easy until researchers used new te...

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Deepak Chopra and Vandana Shiva Talk Seeds and GMOs

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Farming, Gmos, Sustainable Food, Alison Rose Levy, Earth, Green, Planet, Monsanto, Usda, Ecology, Water, Food Politics, Deepak Chopra, Food Supply, Environment, Food, Bullshit, Vandana Shiva, Deepakhomebasecom, Impact, Green News

By surveying the versatile ecology of cow dung, even urban dwellers, like me, can see the earthy pragmatism embedded in the Indian worship of cows (and indeed all life) as sacred.

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WATCH: Ants' Dying Queen Mated With As Spider Eats Her Head-First

Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Prenolepis Nitens, Video, Ecology, Biology, Crab Spider, Dying Queen, Insects, Ants, Animals, Life Sciences, Insect Mating, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/24/2012 11:46 AM EDT on LiveScience We can't all be picky about our mates, and ants e...

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PHOTOS: Touring The Caribbean's Best Highways

Dwight Brown | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Casinos, Church, Caribbean, Shopping, Rainforest, Surfing, Tennis, Cuisine, Hotels, Golf, Highways, Ecology, Restaurants, Beaches, Museums, Nature, Vacation, Slidepollajax, Road Trips, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Sometimes Puerto Rico feels like a Caribbean island, other times more like America's 51st state.

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LISTEN: Macho Penguin's 'In Your Face' Call Sounds Almost Human

| Jane J. Lee | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Animal Competition, Victory Dance, Triumph Display, Ecology, Animal Sounds, Triumph Call, Penguin, Animal Behavior, White-Flippered Penguin, Evolution, Zoology, Animals, Video, Science News

Like a football player who just scored a touchdown, male white-flippered penguins (Eudyptula minor albosignata) perform triumph displays after defeati...

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If Songbirds Are Dying From Mercury Poisoning, Are We Next?

Dr. Andrew Lange | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Mercury Pollution, Mercury, Environment, Ecology, Wildlife, Green News

Through greater understanding of both the extent of wildlife exposure and harmful impacts to ecosystem health, it is now clear that increased conservation efforts are necessary to reduce this neurotoxin in our environment for the benefit of wildlife and people.

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Methane in the Twilight Zone (Third Episode)

Nathan Currier | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Methane Emissions, Ecology, Green News, Climate Science, Climate Change, Environment, New York Times, Science, Global Warming, Methane, Green News

Do you like CSI? I remember the esteemed climate scientist Michael MacCracken once saying that climate researchers need to be like CSI investigators, prying out the truth from obscure clues.

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Who's Shooting Sea Lions? How We Scapegoat Animals

Brenda Peterson | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Green, Conservation, Marine Mammals, Animals, Ecology, Animals in the News, Ocean, Wildlife, Green News

"We'll all stay... until... he doesn't need us anymore," my neighbor said. "Good," Bob nodded in satisfaction. "Call me back when it's over and I'll take him in for necropsy. We want to report this violence and maybe find out who did it."

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Are We Helping Jellyfish Take Over? What Study Says

Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Jellyfish, Jellyfish Bloom, Ecology, Jellyfish Outbreak, Climate Change, Climate Change Jellyfish, Marine Biology, Marine Ecosystems, Science News

They've shut down power stations and terrorized beachgoers. But does a surge in stories about jellyfish wreaking havoc really point to a man-made surg...

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A Buddhist Ecology Of Self

John Stanley | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Education, Philosophy, Brain, Ecology, Children, Psychology, Self-Esteem, Buddhism, Buddhist Self, Self, Definition of Self, Religion News

Genuine self-realization leads us to see ourselves in others. We take pleasure in their self-realization as well as our own.

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Methane in the Twilight Zone (Second Episode)

Nathan Currier | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Methane Emissions, Ecology, Green News, Climate Science, Climate Change, Environment, New York Times, Science, James Hansen, Methane, Global Warming, Green News

The most important paper on climate change in quite a while was published two days ago in Science (Shindell et al, 2012: read about it here). But sorr...

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Methane in the Twilight Zone (First Episode)

Nathan Currier | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Methane Emissions, Ecology, Green News, Climate Change, Environment, Andrew Revkin, New York Times, James Hansen, Global Warming, Methane, Climate Science, Green News

Last month saw methane emissions entering the twilight zone for the first time. By an odd quirk of timing, two incongruous things happened virtually at once.

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America The Beautiful? Thank Beavers

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Rivers, Beaver Dam, Ecology, Beaver Environment, Beavers, Environment, Zoology, Geology, Mountains, Science News

Next time you're enjoying the natural beauty of a river valley, you can thank the local beavers for their contribution. The far-reaching impact of ...

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Investing In The Ecology Of The Heart

Radhanath Swami | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Hinduism, Ecology, Ecology Heart, Bhakti Ecology, Ecology of the Heart, Green Faith, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Environment, Inda, Religion News

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

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Man vs. Malaria: Chemicals, Conservation And An Ancient Arms Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Water Resources, Video, Ecology, World Health Organization, Agriculture, Malaria, The Infection Loop, Climate Change, Deforestation, Malaria News, Green News

Part of a series investigating the complex linkages between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. One steamy evening in July...

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WATCH: Let's Talk About Sex: Are We Just Wild Animals?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Video, Ecology, Wild Animals, Human Sexuality, Talk Nerdy to Me, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Nature Nurture, Sexual Preferences, Education News

How are we the same sexually as wild animals? What sets us apart? We know that there are over 140 known species of gay animals. What about monogamy? These are the questions to explore this week.

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Occupy the World

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Green, Ows, Earth, Ecology, Occupy Wall Street, Greenpeace, Green News

Greenpeace is no stranger to peaceful occupations -- some may say that we have even made a habit out of it! So it should come as no surprise that we share the ideals of the Occupy movement.

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Awakening From The Illusion Of Our Separateness

David Loy | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Psychology, Green Living, Zen, Ecology, Buddhism, Civilization, Green Faith, Religion and Ecology, Separateness Illusion, Nondualism, Zen Buddhism, Religion News

In contemporary terms, our sense of being separate from others is a psychosocial construct, composed of habitual ways of thinking, feeling and acting.

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Don't Make a Wave: Greenpeace at 40

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Ecology, Activism, Bob Hunter, Environment, Kumi Naidoo, Anniversary, Greenpeace, Birthday, Green News

Greenpeace's ultimate success will be measured when we are no longer necessary. Hopefully, in forty more years we will have averted climate chaos, ecology and economy will be balanced with considerations of equity and our job will have been done.

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