Blue whales return for the first time in 40 years

Blue whales – thought to be the largest animals ever to have inhabited the Earth – have returned to the seas off Canada and Alaska for the first time since hunting them ceased more than four decades ago. New research suggests that they appear to have rediscovered an old migration route that they abandoned at the height of the slaughter. 

From Iron Curtain to Green Belt: How new life came to the death strip

A teenage twitcher and a small buff-coloured songbird called the whinchat were the keys that turned the Iron Curtain’s landscape of barbed wire, mined death strips and Kalashnikov-toting border guards into what is probably the most enduring green success story in Europe since the Cold War. Two decades after its fall, the border between East and West Germany has already become Europe’s biggest nature reserve: an 858-mile “ecological treasure trove”, no longer the Iron Curtain but the Green Belt, and home to more than 600 rare and endangered species of birds, mammals, plants and insects.

Take action against climate change: Schreyer

A former governor general of Canada says it’s not science and technology that are holding us back from giving up the fossil fuels that are cooking the planet.

The problem is our governments, Ed Schreyer told a McMaster University conference on engineering and climate change yesterday.

Leaders vow to protect Coral Triangle and its people

Manado, Indonesia – Leaders of six Coral Triangle countries promised to take action to safeguard the world’s richest marine resource and some 100 million people depending on it.

E-Waste Recovery Rates Increase

The National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER) recently released its 2008 per capita collection index (PCCI) for electronics recycling, showing a 7 percent increase in recovered e-waste from 2007. The PPCI is designed to measure changes in the amount of recovered electronics collected in six representative electronics recycling programs across the U.S.

Chemical Treaty Covers Additional Toxins

An international treaty designed to eradicate the world’s most harmful chemicals was expanded this past week to include nine additional pollutants.

Mercury Takes Algae Road to Ocean Fish

May 12, 2009 — Ocean fish can contain high levels of mercury, even though mercury levels in the seawater around them are extraordinarily low. Now, scientists have an explanation for what’s going on.

The Adventures Of Eco-Kid: Slimy Rescue

Who is the Eco-Kid?

Eco-Kid is a mild-mannered 4 year old residing in the quiet rural community of Hagersville, Ontario. His real identity shall remain a  mystery. He works hard every day fighting against the injustices of his world.  He likes to karate-chop anyone who tries to destroy his home planet, Earth.  No task is too small or too large.  No creature too small or too large to be rescued.  No piece of litter is left un-touched.  It is Eco-Kid to the rescue!

My Eco-Conscious Son's Top 10 Ideas To Save The World

I have tried to raise my son to be environmentally/ecologically aware and responsible from the moment he was born. And I am very pleased to see that my efforts (well, it was really quite easy since it is a reflection of my own lifestyle and ideals) have payed off.

My Eco-Conscious Son’s Top 10 Ideas To Save The World

I have tried to raise my son to be environmentally/ecologically aware and responsible from the moment he was born. And I am very pleased to see that my efforts (well, it was really quite easy since it is a reflection of my own lifestyle and ideals) have payed off.

Warming Climate Is Affecting Cascades Snowpack In Pacific Northwest

There has been sharp disagreement in recent years about how much, or even whether, winter snowpack has declined in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon during the last half-century.

Calif. biologists must reconsider protecting pika

FRESNO, Calif.—A San Francisco Superior Court judge says state biologists must reconsider whether the mountain-dwelling American pika should be protected under the California Endangered Species Act.