The rainforests are often referred to as “Earth’s Lungs” because of the importance they play in our global ecosystem. However the trees and animal life that call the rainforests home are in serious danger. Check out the infographic below to discover interesting facts about rainforests, and find some inspiration for [...]

The already endangered manatees are not even more threatened in their environment, courtesy of a toxic read algae bloom off the western coast of Florida, reports The New York Times. “The tide has killed 241 of Florida’s roughly 5,000 manatees, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, and [...]

I recently listened to an enthusiastic TED Talk lecture given by Stewart Brand; uniquely entitled, “The Dawn of De-Extinction. Are You Ready?” (watch the full video below) It was an amazing fact filled talk by a brilliant mind, wide-world thinker, and never-ending futurist. With great eloquence and passion, and lots [...]

If a recently introduced bill is passed by the Russian government, the country would join Costa Rica and a few other African nations in making killing animals for fun, AKA hunting, largely illegal. I dismissed the news that the Russian government was even considering a total ban on sport hunting [...]

Saint-Aignan’s Beauval zoo has plans to recycle panda poop (and other animal feces), and turn it into gas and electricity, according to Agence France-Presse. The AFP states: The zoo announced on Friday it would build a facility that would process the dung of the two pandas and of other animals, as well as plant [...]

I distinctly remember my outrage after reading an Associated Press clip just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, sometime near the late 80’s. It was a tiny press clip about an inch by two in size; and relegated to the back pages. What struck me as odd at the [...]

At the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), conservation organizations warned illegal ivory trade is responsible for the decline of the endangered African elephant population. “Globally, illegal ivory trade activity has more than doubled since 2007, and is now over three times larger than it was [...]

Antarctica’s landscape is changing and there’s no denying it. Most recently, a study by a Texas A&M University researcher, the melting rates of glaciers in Antarctica are accelerating due to global warming. Alejandro Orsi, associate professor of oceanography, and his colleagues from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, “examined the entry to one of three [...]

When most people think of sharks, they think of a human predator but the reality is quite different—humans are the shark predators. While the media reported 12 shark deaths, according to National Geographic, in 2011, a new report published in the journal Marine Policy estimates that each year humans are responsible for [...]

Japanese makeup company Shiseido has banned animal testing for its products and vows to only test on animals on the off chance that an ingredient is deemed unsafe, according to Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). This comes in light of last month’s decision by the European Coalition to end animal experimentation by [...]