Articles tagged as Environmental Preservation

The piles of rubbish could be transported by ocean currents or recent floods

July 6, 2016

Signing of the Highway Beautification Bill

Lady Bird Johnson Wielded Power With a Delicate Touch

The First Lady was a trailblazer who flew under the radar as a quiet champion of Civil Rights and protecting the environment

July 6, 2016

Statue in front yard, Chalmette neighborhood

Age of Humans

Plastic is Forever: The Art of Mass Consumption

For International Bag Free Day, an intimate look at American mass consumption through the eyes of photographer Chris Jordan

July 1, 2016

Police detain activists who are trying to protect forests from the construction of a Moscow-St. Petersburg highway in April 2011.

At least 185 environmental activists were murdered in 2015, according to a new report

June 23, 2016

Hal Rumel, Red Canyon, near Entrance to Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, ca. 1940

How Photography Shaped America’s National Parks

Jamie M. Allen explores how conservation and consumerism have impacted America’s natural heritage

June 22, 2016

Finally...an excuse to buy more cookie butter.

The retailer just agreed to a pricey settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency

June 21, 2016

A pair of nilgai, Asia's largest species of antelope.

The cull will include a range of animals deemed troublesome to people—including rhesus monkeys and wild boar in some places

June 17, 2016

The Amazon Basin just got a little bit safer.

Earth’s largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies

June 16, 2016

Alewives returning to spawn in Wynants Kill

Cool Finds

Herring Spawn in Hudson River Tributary for the First Time in 85 Years

River herring are spawning in Wynants Kill tributary after one of the many dams along the Hudson was removed

June 14, 2016

Boulder brain coral is usually common in Florida's coral reefs.

New Research

Between Bleaching and Boats, Florida’s Coral Reefs Are Struggling to Survive

The reefs are crumbling in acidifying waters and buried from dredging, according to new reports

May 3, 2016

Two state officials and a city employee are the first to be charged in connection with the Flint water crisis

April 21, 2016

Silverside fish are among the species protected by a new West Coast commercial fishing ban on foraging fish.

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NOAA Just Moved to Protect Puny Fish

Why a new ban is a big deal for the ocean’s tiniest creatures

April 5, 2016

$Just a fraction of the nearly 25,000 pounds of diamondback rattlesnakes displayed at the 2016 Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas.$

One of the world’s largest rattlesnake roundup bagged nearly 25,000 pounds of rattlers this year

March 25, 2016

Some of the coral bleaching near Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef

Age of Humans

Massive Bleaching Event Hits the Great Barrier Reef

Warm ocean temperatures have impacted large swaths of the Great Barrier Reef in the last month, part of a worldwide coral die-off

March 22, 2016

Almonds are just one of the crops commonly treated with flubendiamide, a pesticide that has come under fire from the EPA.

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The FDA Will Ban a Common Pesticide

Flubendiamide is used in about 200 crops like almonds and soybeans

March 2, 2016

A huge pile of used disposable Nestle Nespresso coffee capsules in various colors on a garbage heap in Switzerland. The popular capsules are collected after use in order to recycle the aluminum parts.

You won’t find coffee pods in its government buildings

March 1, 2016

A kermode bear, also known as a spirit bear, explores a stream in the depths of British Columbia, Canada's Great Bear Rainforest.

It’s a victory for First Nations, loggers, and environmentalists

February 3, 2016

Cool Finds

GoPro-Armed Vultures Capture Lima’s Trash Problems

By sniffing out illegal dumps, the watchful buzzards will hopefully inspire action to clean up the city’s streets

February 1, 2016

Cool Finds

Oysters Could Save Staten Island From the Next Hurricane Sandy

A living breakwater could prevent future flooding while cleaning polluted waters

December 23, 2015

Part of the Capitol Christmas Tree's splendor comes from marine debris collected along the Alaska coast.

Cool Finds

The Capitol’s Christmas Tree Is (Partially) Made of Trash

Marine debris bedecks a 74-foot tree from Alaska

December 17, 2015