Articles tagged “Birds”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Meet the Special Envoy on Climate Change, Check Out an Arts Shanty, Demand Green Legislation, and Help Save Millions of Birds By David DeFranza IN Work & Connect Jan 26 2009 Today on TreeHugger: Meet the special envoy on climate change, check out an arts shanty, demand green legislation, and help save millions of birds. + READ MORE

How to Rescue a Baby Bird By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 23 2009 Animals are always having misadventures in the movies. Look at the Fox and Hound or the Lady and The Tramp or the Muppets Take Manhattan. All those animals. All those misadventures. In the movies, misadventures can be fun and lead to a journey of heartwarming discovery. In real life, every misadventure can be an animal's last. + READ MORE

Help Birds Survive The Winter Months By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 16 2009 It's hard for many animals to survive the winter months, especially when humans have turned many of their habitats into shopping malls that sell hiking gear to visit those disappearing habitats that are often displaced by shopping malls. We can, however, help birds weather the winter months. Birds can lose about 10 percent of their body weight during the winter. Here's how to help them. + READ MORE

Which Has More Species, the Galapagos Islands or Antarctica? By Brian Merchant IN Go For The Green Dec 19 2008 Easy one, right? Galapagos Islands = a spectacle of biodiversity, famed for strange birds like the blue-footed boobies and curious reptiles like the giant tortoise and the marine iguana. So much stunning life, that Darwin was inspired to create the... + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Saving the Condor By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth Dec 19 2008 Though their numbers reached as few as nine in 1985, there are now 166 California Condors in the wild. This increase has come after decades of effort by zoologists, conservationists, and environmental activists. While the recovery is impressive, the species... + READ MORE

Focus Earth: December 20, 2008: Saving the Condor & OPEC Cuts By Team Planet Green IN Focus Earth Dec 19 2008 This week, Focus Earth takes a look at recent appointments to Barack Obama's "Green Team," providing an analysis of what these selections mean for the administration's environmental policy. Then, Bob Woodward and the team report on recent OPEC production cuts,... + READ MORE

Green Your Brain: How Many California Condors Are There? By Josh Peterson IN Go For The Green Dec 5 2008 In 1985, there were only nine California condors living in the wild. These majestic birds were at the very brink of extinction. Due to the efforts of zoologists and conservationists, these birds have managed a comeback. How many California condors... + READ MORE

Stuff Happens: No Butts for Mother Nature (Video) By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 2 2008 The world's single biggest litter problem isn't candy bar wrappers dropped on the beach or fast food packaging tossed from a car window. It's not plastic bottles left after sporting events or paper receipts that fall out of the garbage. The world's single biggest litter problem is cigarette butts. + READ MORE

Leave Your Scrap Food Outside for Birds By Elizabeth Seward IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 19 2008 Throwing away food drives me absolutely crazy. Of course it sometimes seems unavoidable, but being green is all about conserving. I believe in using food the best we can. Letting our food wind up in a landfill is saddening considering all of the people and animals that could have used that food to nourish their bodies had it been disposed of in a different way. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Hayseeders By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 3 2008 In 1853, the future founders of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens set free several pairs of the previously unknown European House Sparrow inside Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery. + READ MORE

Nature Tunes to Calm and Renew You By Sara Novak IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 15 2008 Once you spend some time outside in nature, it almost definitely becomes something that you want to conserve. All that beautiful scenery, the smells, and the sounds become a necessity. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Bird Flu By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Oct 15 2008 While the bird flu (a.k.a. avian flu) hype has quieted a bit (more specifics here), it's important for those in the green movement to remember the environmental factors that play a role. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Oil Slick By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 14 2008 When ocean transport of oil suffers an accident, breakdown, human error, or whatever, massive amounts of oil are spilled into the ocean. Often, birds are most heavily impacted and clean-up effort is sometimes just as toxic as the spill. + READ MORE

Support Wind Farms While Protecting Bats By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport Sep 12 2008 It's recently been proposed that while wind farms aren't overly dangerous to birds, they may be killing bats. The problem, while still being studied, seems to occur because of the lower pressure created by wind farms. According to the Scientific American, "If bats have a lungful of air as they fly through the air-pressure change, there's nowhere for the air to go. The small blood vessels around the lungs burst and fill the lungs with fluid and blood." + READ MORE

Try a New Green Activity: Go Bird Watching By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 11 2008 Though to the uninitiated it can seem like a charmingly simple pastime for eccentric, aging men, bird watching is actually a thriving hobby practiced by nature lovers of all ages. The sport has maintained popularity, even as popular bird watching habitats decline due to growing suburbs and industrialized agriculture. + READ MORE

David Says: Re-Imagine The Wasteland: Freshkills Landfill--Beacon On The Hill By Team Planet Green IN G Word Sep 10 2008 Bear with me, folks, this one has a happy ending... For me, nothing manifests our culture's excesses and shortsightedness better than waste-landfills. Drive past one and suddenly the all the flaws of a throwaway culture become pungently apparent. As... + READ MORE

Get Smarter In The Bathroom By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 18 2008 The great green domiciles on World?s Greenest Homes feature the most beautiful, eco-friendly bathrooms on the planet. With a couple of small steps, you can give your own shower-and-sink room a quick green upgrade. All it takes is a few fixtures, a little elbow grease, a couple of easy habits, and some basic planet-conscious planning. + READ MORE

Noise Pollution... the other Green Means of Electric By Team Planet Green IN Mean Green Machines Jun 13 2008 By Eric J. Leech Mean Green Machines talks a lot about pollution in the form of toxic wastes spewed into the air from combustion type vehicles, but there is yet another form of pollution such vehicles promote... noise! How many... + READ MORE

What You Didn't Know About Wind Power By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 5 2008 As you saw on G-Word and as the good folks of Greensburg are finding out, one major aspect of going green is finding eco-friendly energy sources. You might not have heard is how well wind power can work. + READ MORE

Blow 'Em Away with Wind Turbines By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden May 13 2008 Ever considered a residential wind turbine? Depending on the size of your system, your turbines can pay for themselves through utility bill savings in as little as six years. + READ MORE