nature conservation

Watch the trailer for the new documentary by the Eco Preservation Society "Saving The Mono Titi"

A Minnesota man has set up a remote camera on a Metro area lake. The result is a rare, simply amazing story of Minnesota's state bird.

12-day-old bundles of fur stepped into the public spotlight at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake Friday.

Check out this cool new solar car students at the University of Minnesota built!

The US Army Corps of Engineers says "failure is imminent" on walls both above and below the historic Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis.

Smart new hiking trail is designed to prevent disruption of wilderness while educating national park visitors

The Save the Redwoods League is ninety years old this year, and to celebrate, it’s giving the San Francisco Botanical Gardens ten grand to help protect a group of redwoods in Golden Gate Park. “Less than five percent of the ancient redwood forest remains today,” explained Save the Redwoods Executive Director Ruskin Hartley. “In fact, there are trees on private land that are in danger of being logged, so the redwoods continue to be threatened.”

Carbon monoxide, or CO, is one of the gases emitted by your car’s exhaust system. It is completely imperceptible to the human senses, being odourless, colourless, tasteless. And this poison is doubly deadly, as it gets absorbed into the bloodstream quickly. Discover how BNT stickers help reduce CO pollution in your car.

Help save the Spanish Lake Basin from a Toll Road and Loop through Baton Rouge, LA. Some of the cypress trees in this area are nearly 1,000 years old. The decision on the final routes will be made very soon so follow the link and act now!

Expanding on a previous post, the development of proposed I-3 has taken a fresh turn as legislators push for development and opposition continues to mount. There have been set-backs and victories on all sides, and now the stakes are raised. I-3 is moving slowly towards the first inklings of action while another major road is proposed through the same region.

Large mammals have disappeared from four-fifths of the earth's landscape during the last 500 years. This conclusion comes from researchers who compared maps of where mammals used to roam with where they live nowadays. In the process, the study identified 108 sites on the planet that have retained a full complement of mega-fauna.

The section of the Rocky Mountains that straddles the Canada-U.S. border has long been recognized as a region of outstanding biological diversity, often referred to as the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. But it might be at-risk for development.

A man in Ireland is replanting Irelands Oak forest, and financing it by sellling the trees as memorial trees, to people all over the world. A living memorial to a loved one planted in Ireland

Rival nations are extending their territorial claims as retreating glaciers make Antarctic oil exploration feasible