Stunning Photos
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| Serengeti day to night |
Most photographs
capture a moment, but Stephen Wilkes creates images blended together from 30 to
50 pictures taken over the course of a day. His glowing pictures in the Day to
Night series are on show until 20 August by his representative, Robert Klein Gallery
in Boston.
Mexican Gray Wolf in the Crosshairs
Senators Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) have
introduced a bill that could lead to the extinction of the Mexican gray wolf,
the world's most endangered gray wolf.
The deceptively named "Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Plan
Act" undermines lobo recovery through a “hijack and destroy” strategy by
giving unchecked power in lobo recovery planning to special interests and the
states of Arizona and New Mexico – states that have been relentless in their
efforts to prevent wolf recovery.
Of Course “Greed is Good”
Who is going to supply all the gold Ron Paul thinks we need?
Peru’s government has declared a two-month state of
emergency across 11 Amazon jungle districts due to mercury contamination caused
by widespread illegal gold mining activities.
The South American country, home to 13 percent of the iconic
Amazon rainforest, is the sixth largest gold producer in the world. Covert
mining for the luxury metal, however, has been a major cost to the environment
and human health.
“Gold has a dirty underbelly, whether the horrific mercury
poisoning in the Peruvian Amazon from small-scale mining, or the human rights
abuses in northern Peru perpetuated by multinational mining companies,”
Earthworks mining program director Payal Sampat told EcoWatch.
According to Mining.com,
illicit gold production in Peru increased fivefold since 2012, and it is
estimated to provide 100,000 direct jobs in the country, 40 percent of which
are in the Madre de Dios region in southern Peru.
How Big, How Destructive is the Wildlife Trade?
June 5 marks World Environment
Day, which prompts us all to turn a critical eye to the state of our global
environment. This year, advocates are asking the public to focus on wildlife
crime, and the impact that trafficking of vulnerable animal populations has on
our world.
To shed light on where attention
and action is needed, we've rounded up six illuminating facts that will broaden
your knowledge on wildlife trafficking — and what you can do to make a
difference.
On The Horns
This graph displays the “horns of the dilemma” that the fossil fuel industry faces from solar.
Those declining cost
numbers—the steady move toward lower and lower prices for solar panels—tell an
amazing story about an industry that has been relentless in its pursuit of
relevance, in its drive to become a mainstream power option. The steady ramp-up
in solar installation numbers shows how successful that effort’s been.
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