Alexandra Cousteau’s Expedition Blue Planet is in the midst of a 14,500-mile journey across North America to raise awareness of water issues, and this short film on the Colorado River is the first big segment of video story telling to come out of the project. It’s filled with gorgeous imagery and a smooth narrative style, [...]
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At this point, we shouldn’t need to be reminded of the negative consequences of living in a plastic world. The message should be clear. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Everywhere you look, there are more plastic bags, more plastic bottles, more indiscriminate use and trashing of a material that simply never goes away, just gets smaller and [...]
Well, this will surprise no one except for Sen. James Inhofe, but pretty much every thermometer worth checking shows climbing temperatures, according to NOAA. June was the hottest ever, year-to-date 2010 is the hottest ever, and the three months of April-June were the hottest ever. June’s global average of land and sea was almost 2°F [...]
Did your parents ever tell you the story about the Indian named Falling Rock, the one who disappeared? And now they have those road signs that say “Watch for Falling Rock”? In Yosemite Valley, falling rocks aren’t quite so whimsical. More than 540 rock slides have been reported in Yosemite between 1857 and 2004, causing [...]
Tropical glaciers have always seemed slightly improbably, like a river that runs north. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t exist, but something in the back of the mind resists. Isn’t north uphill? Aren’t the tropics steamy? Regardless of the strange geography of the mind, there are glaciers in the middle latitudes–Kilimanjaro, the Ruwenzori–but the ones [...]
Rodrigo Baleia, who shoots for National Geographic’s Brazilian edition, has spent much of the last 10 years documenting the deforestation of the Amazon, often from the air. Seeing the rich, verdant forest destroyed to make room for cows and farms was heartbreaking. “It caused me much anguish and sadness,” he says, “because I never got [...]
It’s been five years since the first hurricane of the season formed in June, but that’s what the National Hurricane Center predicted and that’s precisely what showed up in the form of Alex, who you can see here bumping against Mexico. NHC foresees an especially active season for storms, partly because of exceptionally high water [...]
Surrounded by environmental, er, challenges, one of the toughest things is wrapping your head around the magnitude of the problems enough to break through your inertia and take action. Greenpeace Switzerland put together this striking video on just how fast the planet is being deforested–every two seconds, another soccer field’s worth of trees is gone [...]
I’m still waiting on the unicorn to appear, but the moonbows showed up in Yosemite National Park this weekend as promised. Steven Bumgardner, who makes short films for the park (and has what might be the best job on the world), saw last week’s prediction and sent this little video over the internets. Love the [...]
Aristotle wrote about moonbows, and Ben Franklin, and John Muir, and they do, in fact, exist, not just in the pages of dusty old books but out in the real world. Uncommon, certainly, but real. And if you’re anywhere near Yosemite National Park this weekend, you won’t have a better chance to see the elusive [...]
I consider myself to be a fairly environmentally conscious, in-the-know kind of guy and I guess it was this disillusion that made Josh Fox’s eye-opening documentary Gasland on the natural gas industry’s “hydro-fracturing” technology so shocking. For years, I watched gas wells going in along the I-70 corridor between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction, Colorado. [...]
Solitude, you thought too small. Snowbird, your expansion plans are amateur. Russia is planning to build the world’s largest new ski complex in the North Caucasus mountains, which would encompass 5,000 square kilometers and 800 kilometers of ski runs, spread across five Russian republics, and employ up to 100,000 workers. The alliance of five separate [...]
Uncle Sam likes to shred the wild pow! In a victory for backcountry skiers and defeat for lift-serviced resort carvers, the Forest Service this week put the stops to Solitude ski resort’s plans to add 182 acres in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, to its terrain. Solitude had scaled back its original intention of annexing all [...]
While Japan is bribing International Whaling Commission delegates with cash money and hookers in hopes of legalizing commercial harvesting–as if that would satisfy its insatiable appetite for our fellow mammals–researchers have found one more reason to leave the biggest creatures on earth to themselves. Whale poop, it turns out, pulls carbon from the atmosphere and [...]
A new report from UK-based Ethical Consumer Magazine trashing outdoor gear companies for being non-sustainable is garnering a lot of attention in Europe and starting to get noticed in the States. Unfortunately, the report is full of inaccuracies, inconsistency, spurious rationale, and nakedly questionable reasoning. It’s rife with criticism and flawed analysis, and its proposed [...]
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