PETA honors Anjelica Huston for her work to save these performers
PETA just named Angelica Houston Person of the Year, in part for her work to keep great apes out of the entertainment industry. See why in this video:
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Best reasons to call off the war on wolves
Wolf (Photo: Larry Allen, USFWS) This video by Predator Defense wraps up the many reasons we Americans should reevaluate the new bounty hunting seasons on the gray wolves that were once hunted to...
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Common pesticides killed frogs, even at ‘safe levels’
From Green Right Now Reports European researchers studying the effects of seven common agricultural pesticides on frogs report that exposing the amphibians to the chemicals resulted in rates of...
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Mexican gray wolf released into the wild in Arizona has been recaptured
From Green Right Now Reports Hopes for the reestablishment of the Mexican gray wolves rose in January when federal authorities released the first male wolf into the wild in four years. Mexican gray...
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Bonobos, lovable and endangered
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The best Valentine in my mailbox this morning was this simple picture from Bonobo Conservation Initiative. We share so much DNA with these adorable bonobos, I cannot...
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Nature in Danger: Orangutans are gentle apes facing extreme threats
By B.C. Riley Green Right Now Part of the genus Pongo, there are two species of orangutan: the Bornean and the Sumatran orangutan. The name comes from two Malay and Indonesian words that together mean...
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Climate change made Hurricane Sandy more deadly, researchers report
From Green Right Now Reports Hurricane Sandy, which devastated parts of coastal New Jersey and New York, last October, may have hit its targets because of a record Arctic ice loss last year, which is...
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Bullet changes could benefit wildlife
From Green Right Now Reports Gun control’s a sticky matter, but environmentalists are hoping bullet control can speed through the legislative system. A Little Blue Heron (Photo: GreenRightNow) A poll...
View ArticleArtist’s “Breathing Bike” a breath of fresh air in smoggy Beijing
Amid record-breaking levels of air pollution, a Beijing-based British artist has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect himself against the city’s foul air while making a political point at the same...
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Tar sands oil spills near Little Rock
Several homeowners in a Little Rock suburb were evacuated over the weekend after a pipeline spilled an estimated 2,000 barrels (84,000 gallons) of tar sands bitumen in their neighborhood. The oil,...
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Report predicts grim days ahead for forests as climate change increases...
From Green Right Now Reports Climate change will continue to worsen wildfires in the U.S., with the area burned each year expected to double by 2050, according to a report released this week by the...
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Ozone Action Days — What they mean, and what you can do to minimize air...
(This guest post was distributed by the Environmental Defense Fund in Austin.) By Deanna Altenhoff Executive Director of CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas Deanna Altenhoff, CLEAN AIR FORCE of Central...
View ArticleIs this the secret to ending trading in endangered species?
The Economist magazine reports that wildlife poaching is soaring. If bans and legal trading efforts do not stop it, the final hope for animals threatened with extinction may lie with consumers:
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What middle-size cities offer: Clean Air
From Green Right Now Reports The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report had some sobering news for many big metro areas last week. Not only do the central cities suffer from poor air...
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Let’s start treating climate change like the enemy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now So now we’re at 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere — or 399.89, according to a revision of last week’s reading. Either way, we’ve reached a...
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U.S. gray wolves headed for disaster in 2013?
Update June 7, 2013: It’s official, the FWS has posted a new rule that would remove protections for gray wolves across the country, except for the Southwest’s Mexican wolf, which would be declared an...
View ArticleManchester neighborhood in Houston: Ground zero for fossil fuel emissions
From Green Right Now Reports Life can be risky along the Houston ship channel, where some poor neighborhoods have ended up blanketed by air pollution — from the highway, the ships and industrial...
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Robert Redford calls on Obama to step up his climate game by clamping down on...
From Green Right Now Reports Robert Redford, actor, director, and conservationist, is calling on President Obama to follow through on climate change. Redford’s video appeal, launched this week by the...
View ArticleResearchers use solar-powered collar to track cheetahs’ hunting methods
Solar-and-battery powered tracking collars have given British researchers new insight into the hunting habits of the cheetah, one of the world’s swiftest predators. Jim Drury reports for Reuters:
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Nature in Danger: The African Elephant
By Bridget Kessler Green Right Now One of the only two non-extinct genera of the family Elephantidae, African elephants are the remnants of a long line of ancient and mysterious creatures such as...
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