Wilderness & Resources

Wilderness & Resources

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

  • Mountaintop removal: Battle for the mountains

    Fri, Aug 07, 2009 4:55 PM

    While activists against mountaintop removal grow, miners of the region defend their practices as a way of life.

  • How does nature solve this?

    Fri, Aug 07, 2009 9:42 AM by Shea Gunther

    What can we learn from nature? If we're smart, a lot. Biomimicry is the art of blending lessons taken from natural processes into modern design.

  • Give the world clean water for $20B?

    Wed, Aug 05, 2009 12:13 PM by Shea Gunther

    Is better filtering the answer to the billions of people around the world who lack access to clean drinking water?

  • Hydrating Phoenix: Quenching a city in the desert

    Wed, Aug 05, 2009 9:33 AM by Katy Rank Lev

    How Phoenix and its 3.5 million people defied the odds, running on all cylinders without running dry.

  • Journalists search for fabled acid-spitting 'Mongolian death worm'

    Tue, Aug 04, 2009 2:01 PM

    Two New Zealand journalists will set off explosives in the Gobi Desert in an attempt to find the legendary creature.

  • Watch: Man ticketed for helping birds cross road

    Tue, Aug 04, 2009 1:31 PM

    A man helping a gaggle of geese cross the road is ticketed for jaywalking after almost causing a car accident.

  • Video: Police find 102 animals in Colorado home

    Mon, Aug 03, 2009 12:34 PM

    Police removed 52 cats, 2 rabbits, 10 dogs, 8 rats and 2 guinea pigs from the approximately 1000-square-foot home.

  • Bike riders unite to obey the law

    Mon, Aug 03, 2009 9:58 AM by Shea Gunther

    On the flip side of the coin from a Critical Mass bike ride is Critical Manners, a large gathering of law-abiding bicyclists determined to stay in their lanes.

  • Watch: Dog in a swing

    Sat, Aug 01, 2009 12:00 AM by Shea Gunther

    Meet the world's most chill golden retriever, a pooch who loves a good swing.

  • The end of fish could soon be upon us

    Thu, Jul 30, 2009 10:58 PM by Shea Gunther

    Beneath the waters of the world's oceans are huge swaths of empty sea where there once were massive schools of fish. We're fishing our way to total disaster.

  • Living The Good Life

    Wed, Jul 29, 2009 8:03 PM by Shea Gunther

    An MBA meets a fisherman and talks about living the good life.

  • Old is the new green

    Wed, Jul 29, 2009 1:33 PM by Shea Gunther

    How fast is your consumer churn? Do you need to replace your gadgets every season? What ever happened to keeping things around?

  • Restoration no fix for mountains destroyed by coal mining

    Tue, Jul 28, 2009 4:50 PM

    Federal law requires mining companies to restore strip mines to their original condition, but many don't bother.

  • Our pollution is giving animals cancer, too

    Tue, Jul 28, 2009 2:44 PM

    Scientists are increasingly concerned about high rates of cancer in animals, which are often linked to environmental contaminants.

  • Video: Five-legged dog saved from freak show

    Mon, Jul 27, 2009 11:01 AM

    A five-legged puppy is officially out of show business after being rescued from a Coney Island animal show.

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