The Williams River is one of the most diverse and intact aquatic ecosystems in the Hunter Valley. This will be damaged forever by the proposed Tillegra Dam, when there is only a one in a million year chance the water will ever be needed. Hunter Wate

On 21 August, an oil/gas well off the Kimberley coast blew out, uncontrollably spewing oil into the ocean. Since then, the oil has spread through an area known as a marine wildlife super-highway, and now covers thousands of square kilometers of turtle, wh

The fossil fuels industry is trampling global warming legislation to secure profits, while we the people are already experiencing the effects of ever rising greenhouse gas emissions: forest fires are raging, freshwater systems are drying up, hurricanes ar

Researchers and nonprofit organizations in these countries are working to show the governments and communities involved that preserving the vast wealth that is the Maya Forest through careful, sustainable development and tourism is in the peoples' best...

...Because people need nature to thrive...

"President Barack Obama declared a "major disaster" in American Samoa, the White House said in an e-mailed statement. The declaration makes government funding immediately available for aid operations and rebuilding in the territory. . ."

Sydneysiders awoke to red dust on the 23rd. Millions of tons of dust have been dumped on Eastern Australia. Scientists have shown that the Indian Ocean plays a role in the climate patterns of Australia. Where did the red dust start it's journey?

During the Bush administration, Congress kept areas immediately to the north and south of the Grand Canyon off limits from uranium mining. Yet, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is allowing the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) to move for

A lovely pictorial journey of the Everglades.

The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years but continuing an overall decline symptomatic of climate change, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.