Turning Trash Into Art This collaboration invites artists to reuse old hubcaps, adding to a growing collection of landfill art. (03-05-2010) |
Tiger Habitats Disappearing Tigers could become extinct in the wild in less than a generation, the World Wildlife Fund warned Wednesday as it launched a campaign to save them. The number of tigers in the wild has dwindled to 3,200 -- less than the number held in captivity in the United States alone. (02-10-2010) |
Conservation Controversy A major conservation row is developing over proposals for Britain to establish the biggest and most unspoiled marine nature reserve in the world. (02-10-2010) |
Copenhagen Climate Accords Fail After years of preparation, the UN climate summit in Copenhagen failed to produce anything except a weak outline of intentions, falling far short of the sort of global action needed to slow climate change. (01-12-2010) |
Organizing In Support Of Sea Turtles Founded out of a desire to support research and conservation efforts, SeaTurtle.org now provides a wide range of services and information. (01-12-2010) |
How Big Is Your Ecological Footprint? The Global Footprint Network has graphed data concerning the ecological footprint of average individuals in over a hundred countries. The organization works to influence decision makers and to put an end to ecological overshoot and get economies back into balance. (01-12-2010) |
Oceans Of Trash Attempts to locate a missing airplane that crashed have highlighted the problem of oceanic trash. Huge gyres of garbage the size of Texas, including a lot of plastic that takes ages to decompose, make this pollution a growing problem for both humans and marine creatures. (06-06-2009) |
Antarctic Ice Shelf Disappears An Antarctic ice shelf has quickly vanished, another is disappearing and glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought due to climate change, according to U.S. and British government researchers. (04-04-2009) |
Obama Signs Land Conservation Bill Hundreds of thousands of acres of land are set aside for wilderness protection under the bill. (03-31-2009) |