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Over 1500 European cities are voluntarily banning cars on the streets for at least one day a week to participate in European Mobility Week. The European Commission has encouraged all the cities in the union to dedicated at least one day a week that is “car-free”, encouraging people to walk, bike or take public transport. [...]
Recent studies have discovered that captive pairs of spotted hyenas work very well together in cooperative problem-solving tasks. One task given to them involved tugging ropes together in order to gain a food reward. What’s more, the hyenas that had more experience with these kinds of tests also helped out their less experienced partners complete [...]
Have you ever wanted to friend or follow a gorilla? Well, now you can!
Thanks to the launch of friendagorilla.org, people will be able to monitor the everyday lives of one of the 720 remaining mountain gorillas online, by viewing videos, pictures and rangers’ blogs through Twitter, Facebook and other sites. Satellite tracking is another key [...]
No so long ago, my family and I did our part for the Clean Up the World weekend event. We cleaned up trash and debris strewn across local natural areas, including along the shore of a river and a park area downtown. I did not keep a tally of the items found, but they included [...]
All we hear about lately is how China is such a bad polluter, how they’ve surpassed the U.S. as the number one emitter of greenhouse gasses and that they pursue industrialization at any cost. However, China’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are still but a fraction of those of the U.S. and other industrialized nations. [...]
Sounds like a strange toy or home knick-knack, doesn’t it? Actually, this does apply to real fish, including eels and sharks.
Scientists have discovered that the fish that are able to generate electric fields for purposes like fighting, navigating or mating, have a battery-like organ in their tails. Within this organ, a dimmer switch of sorts [...]
Thomas Friedman is a respected American journalist known for his articles for the New York Times. He has written extensively on topics relating globalization, the Middle East and environmental issues. His 2008 book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, stresses the importance of the United States embracing clean energy and Green technologies.
In an op-ed piece for the [...]
Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts are established playgrounds of wealthy, liberal New Englanders like the Kennedy family. This stronghold America’s political left – generally known for being socially as well as environmentally progressive – also spawned Save Our Sound, a group that vehemently opposes wind farming in the local Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind is [...]
Remember those rumors a few years ago about Kentucky Fried Chicken changing its name to KFC because it no longer used actual chickens, but rather some ghastly headless lab-grown creatures kept alive by tubes? Well those rumors were true.
OK, they weren’t. But in a bizarre twist of technological fate, scientists are now developing lab-cultured “in-vitro [...]
This week marks the annual Sea Otter Awareness Week, started and sponsored by the Defenders of Wildlife organization. Sea Otters are listed as an endangered species, which makes this particular week very important. During this week, there are a lot of events taking place that will teach people about the otters, promote research and conservation, [...]
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