Lake Bogoria National Reserve, located in a volcanic, basin region of Kenya, is an amazing natural resource known for it’s countless hot springs and geysers — and huge flocks of stunningly beautiful, pink flamingos that at times can number in the millions.
Created in large part to protect the greater kudu, a woodland antelope found throughout [...]
I haven’t been caving since I was a youngster. At 6′ 4″ and moderately claustrophobic, that’s probably a good thing. Nevertheless, I’m still fascinated by what lies beneath the surface, so to help make up for missed adventures, this week’s Friday Night at the Movies presents a double-feature.
In our first video, Hazel Barton, Ph.D., from [...]
Climate change is emerging as the latest threat to the world’s dwindling fish stocks, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
At least three quarters of the globe’s key fishing grounds may become seriously impacted by changes in circulation as a result of the ocean’s natural pumping systems fading and falling. These [...]
Visualizing World Data
Some of the more mathematically-inclined among us have the ability look at large quantities of raw data and see relationships, trends and patterns. I’m not one of those. For me, visualizing requires something, well, visual: a chart, a diagram, a map.
Enter the folks at worldmapper.org. Using cartograms, or density-equalizing maps, they’ve created a [...]
The illegal traffic in the skins of endangered animals, ivory and rain forest timber is growing and profitable in the booming environmental crime business.
Every year criminal syndicates are profiting by more than 10 billion dollars as they poach and smuggle illegal natural products into markets willing to pay for them.
A British based charity, the Environmental Investigation [...]
Suit up, landlubbers! This weekend, David Gallow takes us beneath the waves and shares some marvelous footage of bioluminescent creatures in the deep sea and shallow waters.
When most of us think of light-emitting creatures, we probably think of the firefly, but bioluminescence is much more common in the marine environment.
Guillemots are a bird that can be found around the world. They are fishers and breed in colonies nestled among sea rocks and cliffs.
Some of those colonies have turned into killing grounds as the birds attempt to find a way to deal with their collapsing food supply.
Just as Hurricane Ike was about to lash against the southern Bahamian island of Great Inagua its population of flamingos began to disappear.
The Island is popular with tourists and bird watchers who come to marvel at the 60 thousand strong flamingo population.
Before Hurricane Ike hit the Island most of the flock began to evacuate to parts [...]
There is a 1in 4 chance that any piece of fish you buy in a restaurant or market isn’t what you think it is. Odds are you are paying good money for cheap fish.
Surveys have discovered people buying fresh tuna that was actually tilapia or eating red snapper that turned out to be perch or cod. [...]
They are called “dead zones”, increasingly large areas of coastal ocean that can no longer support life.
Fishermen off the shores of Oregon report that more amounts of dead rockfish, crabs and other bottom fish have been appearing in their nets and along the coast line.
