The wind industry is now facing yet another big challenge: increasing resistance from environmental groups who are concerned about the effect that unrestrained construction of wind turbines is having on birds and bats.
AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 05.01.2012
MAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Strange things are aloft in the bird world. Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles from Canada to Texas...
Wendy Gordon | Posted 09.26.2011
A current action is about protecting one of the world's most important nesting grounds for migratory birds -- the Peace-Athabasca Delta in Canada. The Delta is downstream from the world's largest industrial project -- Alberta's tar sands oil mines.
Posted 05.25.2011
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Posted 05.25.2011
Text by Megan Cytron, courtesy of Trazzler. Southern California's warm weather and primo location on the Pacific Flyway, makes it one of the top bird...
Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 05.25.2011
With Fall upon us and temperatures starting to drop, animals are starting to migrate to warmer places to spend their winters. From snow geese to whal...
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011
When mourning dove hunting season begins next week, hunters will once again discharge enormous amounts of toxic lead into the environment.
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011
Club members killed the protected birds of prey by shooting, trapping, poisoning, clubbing, baiting birds into glass panels, and even baiting birds with pigeons rigged with fishing hooks.
Robert Bryce | Posted 05.15.2012