April, 2010

Let’s Go to the Mall! NWF Gets Outside For National Parks Week

In honor of Earth Day’s 40th anniversary and National Parks Week, Department of the Interior employees took their kids to the mall.
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The Joy of Camping – Right in Your Backyard

Tips for enjoying a night out under the stars with your family Read more

Video: Remembering Earth Day

Forty years ago on the first Earth Day, I took a hundred college students to see Pennsylvania’s last nesting bald eagle at Conneaut Marsh. The eggs failed to hatch because … Read more

NWF on Today Show

NWF’s Naturalist David Mizejewski, here.  Each month, I appear on the Today Show along with four or five amazing animals. My goal is to inspire the millions of Today Show … Read more

Scientists Say Billions of Birds are Changing Migration Habits

The world’s birds are already finding their own ways to adapt to the effects of climate change. In addition to migrating at different times to newly hospitable locations, they may … Read more

28,000 Green Hours … and Counting!

A new book inspires kids and parents to get outside Read more

New Climate Capsule: Record Temps, Volcano’s Impact & Dirty’s Got Mail

In this week’s NWF Climate Capsule, a record-breaking March, a new push for Senate climate action, Earth Day’s 40th anniversary & Dirty faces down the “Green Goon Squad.”
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Robin in Tree

“Tweet” This: Start a Bird Journal

Children’s author Mary Quattlebaum inspires kids to keep tabs on the neighborhood flocks Read more

Obama Presses Senate to Pass Clean Energy & Climate Bill

President Obama is sending a clear message to Senate leaders, asking them to pass clean energy & climate legislation as soon as work on financial reform is done: “This is … Read more

Will the Iceland Volcano Impact Global Warming?

Global warming & the erupting volcano in Iceland could be related — but not in the ways that you might first think. Read more