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Poseidon Lost

We thought the sea was infinite and inexhaustible. It is not. Calling for a new vision to save our oceans. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
May 18, 2012: Today is National Bike to Work Day, which may help explain why you saw more bicycles on the road this morning than you normally do. It's a good opportunity for evangelization by urban cycling advocates, who often make the... read more >
May 17, 2012: Wacky weather takes climate change out of the realm of the abstract and into everyday life. And one weatherman is bringing the issue home.
May 17, 2012: Cute is in the air ... and flopping on the ground in the form of baby birds. But do you know what you're oohing and aahing over?
May 16, 2012: A little over a year ago, Lucas Benitez, Greg Asbed, and I committed an act that would surely have gotten us arrested if we had attempted it six months earlier. Traveling in a tired and faded Toyota sedan, we cruised through... read more >
May 15, 2012: Jacques Cousteau once famously described Mexico’s Sea of Cortez as “the world’s aquarium.” Now that it’s near collapse, what can one small fishing village do to save it?
May 14, 2012: Invasive emerald ash borer beetles are destroying forests around the U.S. Can scientists shield ash trees from the tiny bug's huge appetite?
May 11, 2012: Lead, cadmium, phthalates, and other nasty chemicals may be lurking in your garden. But they might not have arrived there through fertilizers, pesticides, and pollution. Your own gardening tools could be the culprit.A recent... read more >
May 10, 2012: You're someone who is worried about bats. Maybe you've heard some news reports about white-nose syndrome. Maybe you've noticed that our blind, furry little friends have been mysteriously MIA from your property in recent... read more >
A pygmy hippo calf gets the royal treatment at a sanctuary in South Africa.
There's a new competition in pro football: who can be the greenest team?
What if corporate execs and poor women in remote villages could join forces to change the world?