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Native Wild Flowers – a magic place

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These days many of us are caught up in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives hardly noticing the goings on in a forest or swamp. Even within feet of our own homes wildlife continue to carve out a niche. At night while we sleep many species begin their moonlit search for food. Life [...]

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Terraform Earth

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“Terra-forming” – that’s a theory about taking a world like mars and making it Earth-like. It’s a fascinating scientific endeavor into the possibility of making another planet or even a moon somehow become new habitat for our own species. Now that’s an interesting subject when you think about it. During my life growing up in [...]

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Getting to know the world we share

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The art of exploration isn’t gone. As a matter of fact, it’s alive and well. The trick is simply being curious, then satisfying the feeling. Never let anyone tell you any differently! There is so much to explore and learn about in the natural world, that most people don’t even realize it. Here is an [...]

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They live right beside us …. Really!

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I have always been amazed by nature, I mean the closer you look the more you see! Ironically, so few of us in our busy lives actually take the time to see what’s out there.  It’s like anything I suppose, when you get to know something you are far more likely to understand it, even [...]

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Greenpeace: Inspiring Action

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This is the only planet we have. This earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions… It needs change… It needs action… The video below is a call to action from some of the most action-oriented people on this planet.  It contains some graphic images and is incredibly impactful. Please be aware of this before you [...]

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How far is Chernobyl?

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Chernobyl nuclear Power Plant was located on the outskirts of the Ukrainian town of Pripyat. April 26th 1986 is the day on which the most serious nuclear accident in history occurred: the fallout of radioactivity was 400 times higher than that caused by the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That day Pripyat had less [...]

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10 green New Year’s resolutions – Making 2011 sustainable

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From Greenpeace: We asked on Greenpeace’s Facebook page what your green New Year’s resolutions were – and there were some great ideas. Here is the top ten, for those who are still wondering what to do: 1) Eat less meat. While not everyone is ready to become 100% vegetarian, there is little doubt that eating [...]

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A Justification of Habit

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It was just a matter of time. It was an unconscionable denial of inevitability. When I filmed and reported the oil disaster in the Santa Barbara Channel in 1969, I did so with a feeling of dread, knowing in my mind that this would be the first of many environmental disasters we human’s would wreak [...]

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Kayak down the lazy river with Mark Fraser

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Mark Fraser shows us how much you can see from the quiet of a kayak on a smooth-running flat river in spring. River systems become highways for a range of species from semi aquatic mammals to birds, reptiles and of course fish. If you just coast along drifting quietly with the current the chances are [...]

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The health of the ocean: What’s at stake?

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By Ford Cochran of National Geographic National Geographic hosted a live recording of National Public Radio‘s Talk of the Nation at our Washington, D.C. headquarters yesterday. During the program’s first hour, host Neal Conan spoke with journalist Joel Bourne (author of National Geographic magazine’s October 2010 cover story on the Deepwater Horizon disaster), NPR science [...]

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