If we continue to let the ice caps melt, rising sea levels may not be what threatens us most.Photo: National Geographic nationalgeographic.com We hear a lot about the effects of climate change on global sea levels. How much and how fast, what the impact on our coastal regions is likely to be, and so forth....
These shy, solitary creatures will suffer tremendously if people are allowed to farm them. Photo Credit: National Geographic Our world has an nearly endless supply of stuff we know we’d be better off without. We brand many of them as ‘necessary evils’, because they’ve long served some other purpose. Such as feeding people. If in...
The time to act to protect our beautiful planet is now.Photo by Jeremy Bishop As you may have seen, we the citizens of almost every nation on Earth have recently become party to a global-level agreement that will confer on us some pretty ambitious targets and obligations over the next few years. The goals are...
With questions pertaining to the environment, it’s never about ‘us or them’. Beware any argument that implies this to be the case. Of course we want to do what’s best for us, or what’s best for our fellow humans, and the advocates of this argument know that. But what they don’t want you to notice...
To the Lummi people, orcas are qwe'lhol'mechen, the 'people under the waves’.
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Without a wide range of animals, plants and microorganisms, we cannot have a healthy ecosystem.
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Deepwater Horizons exploded and spilled nearly 5M barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010
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Bluefin Tuna, along with Mackerel Sharks, are the only species of fish that can auto-regulate their body temperature.
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The Chinook salmon our Southern Resident Orcas depend on have declined due to a host of environmental factors, including freshwater conditions.
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Hector’s Dolphin is the only cetacean endemic to New Zealand.
Photo Credit: Otago Daily Times / odt.co.nz
