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Distant earthquakes are triggering tremors at waste-injection sites in the...
From Green Right Now Reports Earthquake that damaged Prague, OK, in 2010 may have been triggered by the Chilean earthquake months earlier. In a weird twist of global interconnectedness that only...
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Nature in Danger: The addax, a tough desert animal clings to existence
By Bridget Kessler Green Right Now The addax — only about 300 remain in the wild. (Photo: ConservationCenters.org.) The desert-dwelling addax is an antelope found in small pockets in North Africa, in...
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Rising temperatures, shrinking snowpack fuels Western wildfires
Rising Temps, Shrinking Snowpack Fuel Western Wildfires (via Climate Central) By Alyson Kenward Follow @alysonkenward Wildfire trends in the West are clear: there are more large fires burning now than...
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Living with nature: This is why you want to avoid black widow spider bites
Jackson Landers, a contributor to The New York Times, recounts his run in with a black widow spider. The black widow spider’s bite is dangerous because of the neurotoxin latrotoxin, which causes the...
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This video about Midway Island is painful to watch, but everyone should see...
Green Right Now Reports Our throway culture is having a devastating impact on nature. Words really can’t adequately describe what’s happening. You have to watch. See more of photographer Chris Jordan’s...
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View reefs at risk in this Google Earth tour
Take a tour of coral reefs around the world with the World Resources Institute’s Reefs at Risk project and Google Earth. The journey to each of the six coral reef regions provides an overview of the...
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Rare white African lion cubs born in Australia
A Tasmanian zoo is celebrating the birth of two rare white African lions. It’s believed to be only the third time endangered white lion cubs have been successfully bred in Australia. The five-week-old...
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Researchers predict violent response to global warming
Researchers in California say climate change could spur an increase in global violence by as much as 50 percent over the next 40 years if current temperature trends continue. The UC Berkeley study...
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‘Surfing for Change’ in Bali
Green Right Now Reports Surfers have been among the vanguard sounding the alarm about waste in the oceans. In this web mini-movie, pro surfer Kyle Thiermann takes us on a tour of Bali, where the...
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Hidden camera captures baby tiger born at London Zoo
Hidden cameras captured the birth of the London Zoo’s first tiger cub in 17 years. The AP reports the cub was born to five-year-old Sumatran tiger Melati on Sept. 22 and won’t be shown to visitors for...
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Two years after Fukushima nuclear disaster, hope is fading
More than two years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima Prefecture, thousands of refugees, desperate to return home, are losing confidence in the Japanese government’s cleanup efforts. Read The...
View ArticleWater in China is an environmental nightmare
The Economist reports that in the past half-century, China has lost half its rivers. Today, much water is wasted or polluted, and China is turning to gargantuan engineering projects to solve its crisis.
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Hunters kill five wolves that likely lived in Yellowstone Park
Green Right Now Reports A gray wolf of the US Rocky Mountains. (Photo: National Park Service) Wolf bounty hunters in Wyoming may have crippled a wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, where tourists...
View ArticleYale event examines climate change in New England and asks ‘what’s next’?
How will global warming affect New England in the 21st century and how is the region preparing for the coming changes? Global climate models all predict that the Northeastern United States may be...
View Article24 Hours of Climate Reality: Fossil fuel polluters are causing havoc and must...
Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality, an online video/guest panel that examines how climate change is costing billions around the globe, kicked off today with segments covering North America and South...
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US wolves: Facing bullets and a hail of bureacracy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now America’s wolves got a reprieve this week, though only a tiny one. The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it is extending the public comment period on the...
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How drones are saving elephants from poachers
Drones are better known for military uses, but rangers in Kenya are using them for a different reason — to save elephants. Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols reports.
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Watch tiger cubs pass their ‘swimming test’
From The Telegraph Swimming tests are usually reserved for humans, but on Wednesday at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC, two Sumatran tiger cubs gave it a try. The male and female cubs,...
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First wolves, now some US grizzlies may lose protections too
From Green Right Now Reports U.S. grizzly bears may soon lose protections under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Center for Biological Diversity warned this week. Grizzly bear (Photo:...
View ArticleCaptive giant panda released into wild
It took a long time for giant panda Zhang Xiang to take her first tentative steps to freedom. Released into the wild in China, the female was surrounded by keepers dressed in specially scented panda...
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