In honor of the 40th birthday of the Clean Air Act, I decided to figure out how much air I breathe. It seemed an easy way to see how important … Read more
Wildlife Facts
Know Your NWF: The Corridor Connection
When 19th-century American conservationists first set out to protect wild places, they created parks, national forests and various types of wildlife sanctuaries in relatively small patches. Despite their best intentions, … Read more
Bird of the Week: Rufous Hummingbird
About a week before Thanksgiving, fellow science writer Rick Borchelt spotted a “way out of season and way out of range” rufous hummingbird feasting at his backyard sugar-water feeder … Read more
National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife News Roundup for November 30th, 2010
Today’s news has species updates, Interior Department activities, wolves, seals, detectives and a cool wildlife bridge: Canada’s new species-at-risk report card shows little progress: http://bit.ly/ecuN4w Plans for the reintroduction of … Read more
Marking a Milestone for a Special Place
ON DECEMBER 6, the United States will celebrate a conservation milestone. Fifty years ago on that date, for the first time in the nation’s history, U.S. authorities gave federal protection … Read more
National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife News Roundup for November 29th, 2010:
Endangered species are prominent in the news today along with a unique backyard wildlife study and a “hairy enigma.” See below: Aboriginal knowledge will help to save the world’s caribou: … Read more
National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife News Roundup for November 28th, 2010
Today’s news — a climate summit, crazy bear incidents, a little geo-engineering, tortoises on iPhone apps and a campus battling with crows. The upcoming Cancun climate summit will also be about … Read more
National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife News Roundup for November 27th, 2010
New in the past 24 hours on the wildlife front in the U.S. and other nations: Could a massive dam between Russia and Alaska save the Arctic Sea? http://bit.ly/fXg1hh Tejon … Read more
