conservation

Species loss accelerating globally, more and more extinctions occurring

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Nov. 12, 2011 Leave a Comment

Eminent Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson says that fully half of the planet's higher life forms could be gone within 100 years, joining the dodo bird, sketched here, which has been extinct since the 17th century and whose fate was directly attributable to human activity. (Thinkstock)

Overhunting, deforestation, pollution, extinction

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: animals, conservation, endangered, extinction, species, species loss

Staving off global warming with land conservation?

By E - The Environmental Magazine

March 5, 2011 1 Comment

According to The Wilderness Society, American forests capture about one-tenth of the greenhouse gases put out by U.S. cars, factories and other sources. Pictured: Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. (Thinkstock)

Is law the solution?

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: conservation, global warming, land, pollution, wilderness