On 11 October, 93.9 kg of elephant ivory was confiscated in Zambia. Again, on 18 October, 22 tusks were seized in Zimbabwe. On 12 October, a man in British Columbia was prosecuted for illegally importing 30,000 pieces of African elephant ivory....

A chilling description of what happened when I said "Yes" to reusable cloth bags and "No" to paper and plastic bags. Anyone else used cloth bags?...

Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY), already California’s largest commercial consumer of renewable energy, recently took steps to solidify its lead by switching the first of 23 planned stores over to solar power in early September 2007....

What does it take to fight climate change? If you ask the folks at Redmond High School outside of Seattle, the answer will likely involve a group of interested and committed students, a much loved environmental-science teacher, and a few thousand pounds of carbon....

All activists: Pledge to buy seafood that's certified as being sustainable and urge stores and restaurants to carry certified fish....

Each LifeStraw can filter 700 Liters of water. Though it will not filter parasites, it will remove bacteria and viruses such as: Shigella, Salmonella, Staphylococcus Aureus and E .Coli, which cause Diarrhea, Dysentery, Typhoid, and Cholera....

Treehugger is like the Jolly Green Granddaddy of all things green, flooding your RSS reader daily, they do have some amazing concepts to bring bloggers everywhere together. Carnival of the Green has to be our favorite. Here’s the concept - every Monday, a different green/sustainability blog hosts t...

People often ask: I want to get greener, what should I do? New light bulbs? A hybrid? A solar roof? Well, all of those things are helpful. But actually, the greenest thing you can do is this: Choose the right leaders. It is so much more important to change your leaders than change your light bulbs....

Search giant Google will "go dark" tonight for an hour -- ala Blackle -- in support of this evening's Lights Out San Francisco event....

Now don’t get me wrong. I am very much in favour of the UK’s Energy Saving Week but its Commit Now! campaign to get people to cut personal energy consumption by 20 per cent completely fails to engage me....

TRUCKEE, Calif. - A 250-pound bear stranded under a bridge near Lake Tahoe was saved by an army of rescuers, a tranquilizer dart and a nylon net bought at an Army surplus store....

She weighed just 1800 grams – a very young joey in eastern grey terms – and was about 12 months off independence....

Toxic cyanobacteria, commonly referred to as pond scum, turned the big lake fluorescent green. The stench of decay choked anyone who came within a mile of its shores. At least two million people who live amid the canals, rice paddies and chemical plants around the lake had to stop drinking or cooki...

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