Self-described digital media junky and “time traveler” Chad Richard is a time-lapse photographer from San Francisco, working with a relatively new technology known as HDR, or high dynamic range, imaging. The results are time-lapse compositions with unprecedented clarity and detail despite the dramatically changing light conditions common to time-lapse photography.
In an interview with KGO-TV, San [...]
Around the world, people are stepping forward and getting involved to preserve and protect the environment. International, national and regional organizations alike, are seeing their rolls of volunteers expand, as people are reaching out to make a positive difference in their community and their world.
This new Ecology Today series, Step Forward, will explore environmental volunteerism [...]
Nearly one in four of the world’s mammals are at risk of disappearing forever says the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The extinction crisis is confirmed in IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species which contains the world’s most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals.
The IUCN report shows at least 1,141 of the 5,487 [...]
Wind power emerges as a clear winner in terms of its overall impact on the environment and human health according to a recent study of the European Union: Environment Directorates General (DG). Other renewable technologies, including solar, geothermal and tidal power, finished ahead of nuclear power and coal combined with carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The [...]
Extreme weather events in the Arctic will become more common as the winter ice cover retreats, with potentially severe consequences for human activity, says the Sweden-based Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR).
One of the most visible signs of climate change is the dramatically reduced ice cover in the Arctic. The retreat of the sea ice [...]
For some time, I’ve had a working theory that those of us interested in ecology are, consciously or unconsciously and to varying degrees, actually engaged in an attempt to get in tune with the world around us.
Rather than viewing the natural world as an entity apart from ourselves, we recognize that we are a part [...]
The future of potable water supplies for a burgeoning global population may have just gotten much brighter… and all driven by renewable energy sources.
A commercial-scale, seawater desalination plant powered by solar and wind energy that produces freshwater and dry salt has been designed by Spanish researchers. The new process does not discharge highly concentrated salty water [...]
Future increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) is the central consideration in a powerful conclusion of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that climate change is irreversible. “There’s no going back,” NOAA stated in a recent press release.
A pioneering study conducted by NOAA shows how changes in surface temperature, rainfall, and sea level are largely [...]
The world’s farmers must quickly switch to more sustainable and productive farming systems to grow the food needed by a swelling world population and respond to climate change,says the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
“The world has no alternative to pursuing Sustainable Crop Production Intensification to meet the growing food and feed [...]
Scientists need a more detailed understanding of how human-produced atmospheric particles, called aerosols, affect climate in order to produce better predictions of Earth’s future climate, according to the US National Aeronoutics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
Aerosols are suspended solid or liquid particles in the air that often are visible [...]
Biomimicry is the art and science of drawing upon nature as inspiration to solve to design problems in a sustainable way.
Among the most notable proponents of this new and rapidly growing field is Janine Benyus, author of six books on the subject, co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, and president of the Biomimicry Institute.
This week, Friday [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Inconvenient Truth opened millions of people’s eyes to the issues of pollution and global warming and put films about the environment back in the public eye. Now, filmmakers want to do more than create works that inform and illustrate the importance of sustainability: they want to incorporate sustainable, environmentally-friendly practices into [...]
