Tag: Biodiversity - Page 12
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The Week in Animals: Baby Birds Filling Up on Plastic, Zebra Stripes Used as Barcodes, and More
We know there is a serious problems of plastics in the oceans. We also know that the birds living on Midway Atoll have become an iconic species representing this problem -- we all saw the photos from Chris Jordan detailing this. But do we fully comprehend
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Kraig Kraft on Chasing Chiles
There are plenty of great books out there on global warming, all full of dismaying facts and figures. But never before has our changing climate been viewed through the fiery lens of the chili pepper. In Chasing Chiles, Kraig Kraft (along with co-authors
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How to Make Seed Bombs (and Not Get in Trouble Doing It)
I've always like the idea of seed bombs. Little nuggets of clay, compost and appropriately-selected seeds that can be used to help green wasteland and otherwise neglected areas.
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How to Make a Compost Tea Brewer for Under $30 (Video)
I've written before about how to make compost tea and why you should, but when I wrote a round up of how to brew compost tea videos, I somehow missed this gem from PNW gardening on how to make a compost tea brewer for under
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The Week in Animal News: Clouded Leopard Kittens, Bats Worth Millions, and More (Slideshow)
After last week's depressing roundup of animal news -- which included big cats burned alive and live animals encased as keychains -- it was nice to see a turn-around this week: Read on for rare leopard cubs giving hope to their
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European Bison Pose An Important Question: What Is Natural?
David already wrote about the fascinating case of the last herds of European bison, noting how the collapse of communism has lead to a "rewilding" process, where farms have been abandoned and many rural residents have moved into the city. Now Damian
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The Week in Animal News: Clouded Leopard Kittens, Bats Worth Millions, and More
After last week's depressing roundup of animal news -- which included big cats burned alive and live animals encased as keychains -- it was nice to see a turn-around this week: Read on for rare leopard cubs giving hope to their species, new technology for
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Bees May Be "Entombing" Their Own Hives to Escape Pesticides
During our live chat with bee expert and Tyler Prize laureate Professor May Berenbaum, she cautioned against over simplistic arguments regarding the
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Best of Green: Travel and Nature (Slideshow)
What's the best twitter feed by (yes, you read that right) an endangered animal? What's the most intriguing new species, the most powerful nature documentary, the eco travel tools that you must have before you hit the road?
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The Week in Animal News: Live Keychains, Facebook Bear Killed, and More (Slideshow)
It was a seriously depressing week for the animal world: rare animals were burned alive, killed in standoffs, sold on the black market, imprisoned in tiny keychains for tourists, shot by hunters, and
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The Week in Animal News: Live Keychains, Facebook Bear Killed, and More
It was a seriously depressing week for the animal world: rare animals were burned alive, killed in standoffs, sold on the black market, imprisoned in tiny keychains for tourists, shot by hunters, and covered in oil. But there was a little bit of good new
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The Week in Animal News: Saying Goodbye to Knut, a Tortoise on Wheels, and More
As all the followers of "Knutmania" worldwide mourn with Berlin, we look back at Knut's life, and remember the good times we shared watching the tiny polar bear grow into an iconic representative of an endangered species. We also have a tortoise on wheel
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Say it with Butterflies - Green Start-Up Grows Monarch Butterflies for Events, Therapy & Conservation
Here is an interesting buisness idea; grow butterflies to let fly at special ocasions and at the same time help the enviornment as well as people with special needs. The project is called Mariposeando (Spanish for something
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Everglades Islands Are Actually Ancient Piles of Trash
Like great-great-great-great-great grandfather like son, our early ancestors were epic trash-producers, too -- but, as it turns out, their heaps of waste may have actually had a positive impact on the environment. Researchers
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What's the Greenest Way to Feed the Birds?
Bonnie has looked at innovations in bird feeding before, and alerted us to Feed the Birds Day. Clearly feeding birds is a big priority for TreeHuggers everywhere. Now Lucy Siegle over at The Guardian is looking not just at whether we should feed the
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The Week in Animal News: Polar Bears Eat Spy Cams, Well-Endowed Frog and More (Slideshow)
What happens when you place spy cams all over the arctic in order to track polar bears? Well one might become a polar bear snack.
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The Week in Animal News: Polar Bears Eat Spy Cams, Well-Endowed Frog and More
What happens when you place spy cams all over the arctic in order to track polar bears? Well one might become a polar bear snack. We also have news on a very well-endowed frog, rescue efforts in place for Japan's pets, barking dogs facing the death penal
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Harder to Find than a Four-Leaf Clover: 9 of Ireland's Most Threatened Species (Slideshow)
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold.
