Wilderness & Resources

Wilderness & Resources

Learn about Earth's biodiversity and natural resources. Plus: Explore national parks and state wilderness areas.

  • Evening bat flights: One of nature's great spectacles

    Thu, Oct 15, 2009 12:08 PM by Cool Green Science Blog

    This Halloween season, consider celebrating with a unique outdoor experience. (Then go to that haunted house.)

  • Going greener is easier when it's fun

    Tue, Oct 13, 2009 5:26 PM by Shea Gunther

    The Fun Theory posits that people are more likely to change their behavior if the change is fun. How can we use that in the environmental movement?

  • Australia's red dust storm good for the ocean

    Tue, Oct 13, 2009 4:22 PM by Bryan Nelson

    One positive outcome of the dust storm that covered Sydney several weeks ago was an explosion in microscopic life within Sydney Harbor and beyond.

  • Vegetarian spider loves leaves, not bugs

    Tue, Oct 13, 2009 12:01 PM

    B. kiplingi is the world’s only known vegetarian spider, eating a diet that consists almost entirely of solid plant matter.

  • The bike hearse makes dying greener

    Tue, Oct 13, 2009 11:31 AM by Shea Gunther

    A funeral home in Eugene, Oregon goes the extra green mile by offering their customers the option of a bike hearse.

  • The last auction hero

    Mon, Oct 12, 2009 5:13 PM by Jessica A. Knoblauch

    College student Tim DeChristopher faces slammer for interfering with land auction.

  • Monkey mamas in love

    Mon, Oct 12, 2009 4:44 PM by Katy Rank Lev

    When interacting with babies, primate behavior is strikingly similar to that of human mothers.

  • Assignment Earth: Whitebark pine beetle

    Mon, Oct 12, 2009 3:08 PM

    Video: A tiny beetle threatens the existence of Whitebark pine forests.

  • Assignment Earth: Mexican wolves

    Mon, Oct 12, 2009 1:49 PM

    Video: Understand the balancing act between conservationists trying to save the endangered Mexican wolf and ranchers who say the animals are destroying their cattle.

  • Mile-long trail of manatee poop forces beach closure

    Mon, Oct 12, 2009 12:52 PM

    Manatees the culprit in mysterious trail of feces that forced officials to close Humiston Park Beach in Florida.

  • In the Field: Tree farm goes organic

    Mon, Oct 12, 2009 5:06 AM by Emily Murphy

    Video: Farmer D travels to Kentucky to make a tree farm organic.

  • Assignment Earth: Flamingos of Mumbai

    Fri, Oct 09, 2009 3:15 PM

    Video: This crowded city hosts one of the world's largest populations of flamingos.

  • Video: Tea cup pigs are the new pet craze

    Wed, Oct 07, 2009 5:30 PM

    With their little pink snouts and oversized ears, tiny pigs the size of tea cups are irresistibly cute. ITN's Damon Green reports from down on the farm.

  • Midweek linkstravaganza

    Wed, Oct 07, 2009 4:28 PM by Shea Gunther

    Chicken poop-eating cows, more bad BPA news, more reasons to jump on a bike, a deep energy retrofit, and pretzels. Yum.

  • Video: Nearly-extinct leopard gives birth

    Wed, Oct 07, 2009 2:42 PM

    A very rare Siberian snow leopard gives birth to healthy triplets in Ukraine.

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