Bird Watching - A Beginner's Guide to Bird Watching

Winter is a great time to begin birdwatching. Bird watching is an inexpensive, rewarding hobby. Next to gardening, bird watching is the second fastest growing hobby in America. With photos, videos, and links, learn the joy of birdwatching and how to learn to identify birds at home or anywhere.

How Does An Animal Get on the Endangered Species List?

Celebrate American Wetlands Month

America's Wetland Month is a celebration and a call for awareness concerning the loss of wetlands across our country.

Living Machines

The bathroom of the future may resemble a greenhouse more than a lavatory. As cities around the world struggle with wastewater management problems, there is growing interest in a new-old form of wastewater...

Why Restoring and Protecting Wetlands Matters?

The importance of wetlands for climate mitigation, species conservation, diversity and ecosystem services. How much does it cost to restore wetlands and why shall we care?

Automotive Toxic Wastes on Reservations Near New York City

The Ramapough Nation is dying on their New Jersey lands from toxic pollutant related dumps made by the automotive sector of industry. The toxins raise the risk of cancers among these Native Americans by thousands of percent.

Tropical Forests and National Parks of Costa Rica

Tropical forests in Costa Rica vary widely in type from seasonally dry to tropical rainforest, as well as cloud forests. Parks of the country are located in all different types of forests.

Spring Peepers: An Elegy Poem in Honor of the Death of Winter as Signalled by the Peeps of Spring Peepers

The elegy comes from the elegiac couplets of ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Anciently, it deals with erotic, humorous, mythological, satirical, somber or witty subjects. The sample elegy signals the death of winter through peeping spring peepers.

Best Outdoor Activities in Evansville, Indiana

Evansville, Indiana is the kind of place that people can make the joke ‘If you don’t like our weather, wait 15 minutes and it will change.’ If you are traveling to or near Evansville; there is a good...

Our Future is Methane Energy

Methane is a naturally occurring gas on planet earth, and thus can be found in many places both naturally and artificially by humans. It is these two elements within space and time that make methane (the...