Via the LEO Zoological Conservation Center in Greenwich, Conn., here’s an adorable giraffe calf standing up for the very first time — under the watchful eye of his mother, Petal. Good work, baby giraffe! via An adorable baby giraffe stands…
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Brazilian chief uses technology to help save his tribe, and curb deforestation
SEVENTH OF SEPTEMBER RESERVE, Brazil — As a small boy in the early ’80s, Almir Surui hunted monkeys with a bow and arrow, wore a loincloth and struggled with Brazil’s official language, Portuguese. At 38, he is the techno-savvy, university-educated…
Posted in South America
EPA report: More than half nation’s rivers in poor shape
More than half of the country’s rivers and streams are in poor biological health, unable to support healthy populations of aquatic insects and other creatures, according to a nationwide survey released Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency sampled nearly 2,000 locations…
IMF, citing $1.9 trillion in government subsidies, calls for end to energy ‘mispricing’
Governments around the world subsidize gasoline, electricity and other major forms of energy to the tune of $1.9 trillion a year according to a new International Monetary Fund study that calls for that amount to be offset through carbon taxes or…
Peru declares oil contamination emergency in Amazon jungle region
LIMA, Peru — Peru’s government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country’s most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by…
Posted in Environmental Issues, Pollution
Unabated, illegal trafficking risks survival of chimpanzees, orangutans, other apes, UN says
BANGKOK — The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife — clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction — is also threatening the survival of great apes, a new U.N. report says. Endangered chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and…
Life After Oil and Gas
A National Research Council report released last week concluded that the United States could halve by 2030 the oil used in cars and trucks compared with 2005 levels by improving the efficiency of gasoline-powered vehicles and by relying more on…
Global warming detailed in new temperature records
In a recent article in the journal Science, researchers at Oregon State University and Harvard explained how they used marine fossils to piece together a rough temperature record going back 11,300 years to the most recent ice age. That record…
Whole Foods’s Walter Robb calls for a labeling revolution
This month, Whole Foods became the first retailer in the country to announce that it would require its more than 300 stores to label all food containing genetically modified ingredients. The move, to be phased in over five years, marked…
Posted in Genetically Modified Organisms
A business model to save the black rhino?
The big idea: Can a for-profit big-game farm in South Africa be the answer to saving the endangered African black rhino? The scenario: In 2011, the black rhino was close to extinction. Poaching rhino for the black-market sale of their…
