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Posted by geri
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
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Ozone levels have stabilized or increased slightly in the past 10 years thanks to an agreement to ban CFC's signed in 1987 and honored by 180 nations. (Yahoo News) |
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Posted by geri
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 |
Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed with environmentalists that an oil pipeline being built across Siberia should be rerouted significantly further south, away from Lake Baikal, the world's most voluminous fresh-water lake, reversing a controversial government decision last month. (NY Times)
UPDATE: I read on May 1 that the lake is the world's oldest and deepest, containing 20 percent of Earth's surface fresh water (25 million years old and 1,700 metres deep). |
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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
 Elephants are majestic creatures who are highly intelligent, complex, social, sensitive and even humorous. They form intricate family structures and grieve for their dead. In the wild, elephants are migratory, walking 30 to 50 miles each day — a disturbing fact for elephants faced with life in a zoo.
Carol Buckley worked in tandem with elephants for twenty years in television, motion pictures and circus shows until, in 1995, she began to fulfill the migratory dream for elephants restrained by captivity. She founded the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, a 2700-acre reserve that is now home to more than 20 Asian and African elephants rescued or retired from zoos and circuses.
Good News Network member Janet Locke suggested we needed to write about this organization and its residents, who are not paraded before the public — even in a humane way; instead, "they are encouraged to live like elephants":
The founders, Carol and her partner Scott Blais, recently agreed to rescue eight circus elephants that had been chained by two feet of length in an Illinois barn for two solid years. |
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Read more... [Room to Move, a Sanctuary for Retired, Rescued Zoo Elephants]
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Posted by geri
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
 Earth Day Special — The 21st annual Great American Cleanup is in full swing, mobilizing millions of volunteers to clean, beautify and improve their communities each spring. Last year 2.4 million volunteers collected a record breaking 208 million pounds of litter and debris; recycled hundreds of tons of material; planted 4.2 million flowers; cleaned 176 miles of roads; and cleaned 10,250 miles of waterways and shorelines.
On March 2, more than 750 volunteers from all over the country descended on Biloxi, Miss., for the official kickoff to the 2006 national campaign, launching a full day of Hurricane Katrina Restoration activites. Volunteers removed mounds of storm debris and also planted grass, flowers and oak trees to aid in coastal restoration. From the Biloxi Town Green to the Purple Heart Memorial and Edgewater Mall beach, one main objective was achieved; to make a visible difference in this community in one day.
It's not too late to volunteer for the Great America Cleanup! It runs until May 31. Consult this page for a list of U.S. states and territories, and even other countries (Canada and South Africa) that are participating. |
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Posted by geri
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Friday, 21 April 2006 |
UPI reports on some excited researcers at Purdue University who said Tuesday that the hypertension drug hydralazine appears to prevent cell death. The study suggests that the treatment can reverse damaged cells in conditions including spinal cord injury, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
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