by Admin | Jan 23, 2019 | Conservation
According to a group of researchers from 13 universities in three countries, the potential for large countries to contribute to environmental protection is being overlooked. The researchers looked at the leverage an individual country can have when it comes to...
by Admin | Jan 17, 2019 | Conservation
Verreaux’s Sifaka, a threatened species on the IUCN’s Red List of Endangered Species. Photo credit: Shutterstock There are currently over 26,500 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. To put that...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2019 | Climate Change, Information
A new study from the University of Bristol in England has shown that the Greenland Ice Sheet emits tons of methane. How? Apparently it’s all about the critters that live under the ice sheet. According to the study’s lead author, Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon of the...
by Admin | Jan 4, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Information, Sustainability
2018 was definitely not the best year ever for the environment, or for environmental activists. But, as Earth Island Journal pointed out in its roundup of 2018’s hot stories, there are some glimmers of hope appeared amidst all the bad news. Here are a few items the...
by Admin | Dec 21, 2018 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
We all do it: when we’re tired after a long day at work, or when we just don’t want to cook, we order take-out food. And with all that tasty goodness comes packaging. And with all that packaging comes a problem: waste. Lots of waste. A group of scientists from the...