Meet Steve Lowes, a farmer who raises sustainable coral for sale to aquarium supply companies and pet stores. His efforts, and those of others who do the same, are putting a dent in the amount of coral stolen from endangered living reefs.

Climatologists and epidemiologists fear that increased moisture in the air due to climate changes - dare we say global warming? - will bring more rain, and along with that, a resurgence in waterborne diseases.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.

This is excellent news! In a reversal of its original request, officials at the US Fish & Wildlife Service want the delisting order vacated. This means the scheduled fall wolf hunt, already delayed, could be put off until further studies are completed.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of Federal District Court in Washington ruled against a BUSHCo proposal to allow more than 500 snowmobiles a day into two national parks. He said the plan favored use over the park's mission: conservation. Will the decision hold?

The EPA vetoed a federal plan to build the world's largest water pumping system in the Mississippi Delta, citing harm to the habitats of of endangered species, the destruction of thousands of acres of wetlands & poor water quality. Environmental victory!

The American Petroleum Institute has banded together with the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Mining Association & the American Iron & Steel Institute in a lawsuit aimed at removing polar bears from the endangered species list.

Unfortunately, rhus radicans is the taxonomic moniker of poison ivy and also sometimes applied to poison oak. Global warming is an environmental disaster for most living organisms, but poison ivy LOVES the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.

Alarming article about the rise of world-wide coastal oceanic dead zones, exacerbated by human activity, especially fertilizer run-off. The number of oxygen-starved oceanic areas has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s. We cannot kill our oceans!

The future of Britain's horse chestnut trees could be under threat because of a disease which has swept across the country, experts say. They are an iconic sight, found in hundreds of churchyards, parks and gardens.