by Admin | Aug 10, 2020 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
The Middle Fork diversion dam in Bellingham, Washington, was 25 feet tall and controlled 16 miles of the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River, which drains the North Cascades watershed into Bellingham Bay, just a few miles south of the west-most end of the U.S.-Canadian...
by Admin | Aug 3, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Since early May, rural northern Botswana has seen more than 350 elephants die. The first cluster, of 169 individuals, was reported in the broad Okavango Delta, where over 15,000 elephants roam. Since then, the number has doubled, and is likely higher, since elephants...
by Admin | Jun 19, 2020 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
The North American monarch butterfly, that iconic orange-and-black milkweed butterfly, is famous for its multi-generational migration pattern. In autumn, monarch butterflies fly south from the northern United States and Canada to Florida, Baja, and the northern coasts...
by Admin | May 22, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Information
In Japan, where Asian giant hornets are native pests, an average of 30-50 people a year die by them, mostly by having the misfortune to stumble, literally, into one of their massive buried hives. Native to temperate and tropical parts of East and Southern Asia, from...
by Admin | May 15, 2020 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Information
If you’ve kept even half an eye on eco-aware headlines in the past twenty years, you’ve seen the word microplastics. What it means is simple: any piece of waste plastic less than 5mm in size, or in other words, smaller than a ladybug or a baby aspirin, is considered a...
