Conservation

Photo Credit: The cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev installing an antenna on the International Space Station in 2018 to track animal movements on Earth. Credit…A. Gerst/ESA/NASA (New York Times). The International Space Station has for the past 20 years…Read More

While summertime usually brings the onslaught of pesky critters that munch on our skin and ruin our garden tomatoes, summer is also the time when the pollinators of the world – the bees, birds, bats, butterflies, and the other small…Read More

Image Source: Our State Today is dedicated to raising awareness for one of the world’s most important pollinators, bees! In 2017, The UN declared May 20th as World Bee Day with the hope to bring more acknowledgment, awareness, and education…Read More

Remember a year ago? It was all about banning plastic straws. Everything was black and white, plastic was bad and everything else was good. The checkout line at Whole Foods, Tribeca, NYC, was the great humiliator, and as I always…Read More

Header Photo by Catie Brown 2019 El Fin del Mundo, the end of the world, boasts an abundance of beauty. Snow-capped mountains, the natural beauty of Patagonia, the enchanting peat bogs and parks of Tierra del Fuego, beavers, huemuls, histories…Read More

Happy World Habitat Day, my fellow eco-friendlies! Today, across the world, the leading minds of sustainability will be discussing how exactly “innovative frontier technologies” can contribute to the efficiency of waste management worldwide. In 1985, the United Nations designated the first October…Read More

Coffee is the third most consumed beverage around the world, only after water and tea.  With such great impact in people’s life, 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world every day, this International Coffee Day we celebrate this precious drink that keeps…Read More

If you haven’t visited a World Heritage Site yet, this World Tourism Day we want to give you some tips on how to contribute to their preservation and enjoy these landmarks of great social and cultural value around the world.…Read More

Poaching, the illegal trade in wildlife that is a highly organized, sophisticated criminal activity on an industrial scale, has become the 4th largest criminal enterprise worldwide followed only by drug smuggling, human trafficking and counterfeiting. Statistics show the illegal trade…Read More

Environmentalists have long struggled to save the world’s oceans from the perils of overfishing, climate change, and pollution. What if we have it backward? What if the question is not how we can preserve the wildness of our oceans, but…Read More