by Admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Conservation
In the late 1960s, a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) found fewer than 500 breeding pairs of bald eagles in the lower 48 states of the United States. The bald eagle, which has been the national bird of the United States since 1787, nearly went...
by Admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Climate Change, Green Energy, Sustainability
During his 2020 campaign, while the shape of the world changed in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, President Joe Biden made promises to spend $2 trillion over his first four-year term on efforts to slow the United States’ contribution to global warming, and to...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Conservation, Sustainability
Yishan Wong has taken part in some of the largest disruptions the internet brought to daily living. In the early 2000s, he was a senior engineering manager at PayPal while the company made itself into the bank of the internet. In 2005, he joined a fast-growing new...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Conservation
New species get found every day, but usually they’re insects, or some variety of LBB (Little Brown Bird), a fern or—if you’re very, very lucky—a previously unknown shrew. But just recently, a few incredibly lucky scientists got to announce the discovery of a whole new...
by Admin | Nov 9, 2020 | Conservation
From the afternoon of November 2, 2020, well into the next morning, 120 short-finned pilot whales washed ashore near Panadura, Sri Lanka in the largest mass beaching the country has ever seen. Short-finned pilot whales are native to every ocean, the largest of the...
