Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In a world where marketing is everything, the false killer whale (or pseudorca) might want to consider a name change. “Real” killer whales had a hard enough time with it, until Shamu and Willy came along, and at least...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Bettina Boxall has a great post in LA Times's Greenspace about a new study in the journal Science that finds the background mortality rate from unmanaged old forests in the United States has doubled in the last thirty years. The...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Today NRDC filed a formal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to officially classify whitebark pine, a tree found near the tops of mountains throughout western North America, as an endangered species. It’s hard to overstate the importance...continued→
