It’s a sad fact that climate change has already begun in earnest, and will continue for some time even after we shut down the fossil-fuel machine. Though turning off the tap to minimize the damage is still a first priority, we need to face the likelihood that we’re going to be living in a new [...]

Written by Andrea Fox of Ohio I had dropped my son off at his work one morning and was heading home. It is a busy street normally, and during rush hour it’s even busier. I had almost reached the entrance ramp to the freeway when I saw several birds lying in the road. Apparently someone had plowed [...]

A new report urges focusing on the world’s seas and oceans in the quest for sustainable development and economic progress. Green Economy in a Blue World, produced by a several organizations headed by the United Nations Environmental Program, asserts that the ocean, and how we see and use it, must play a huge role in the [...]

The latest Red List of threatened species has upgraded the risk of Indonesia’s Sumatran elephants from “endangered” to “critically endangered.” The elephants have lost half their population in the past 25 years.

  Note: This is another part of our Activist Spotlight series, where we shine a light on Care2 members who are making a difference in their communities. To Care2 member Ryan Kempster, the ocean was always rather exotic. Growing up in an industrial town in England, he never had much of a chance to become [...]

  Written by Lloyd Alter In his book, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, Peter Maass showed how oil isn’t just environmentally dirty, it is an ethical and moral poison as well. Canadians are getting a taste of that poison right now, as the Prime Minister and his government unleash an unprecedented attack on [...]

  It’s not really news that another super rich celebrity couple has built a $20 million mansion. That is pretty standard in a day in the life of the one percent. However, when one of these millionaires (excuse me, almost-billionaires) considers herself an eco-activist, I start to question. Supermodel Gisele Bündchen and her NFL quarterback [...]

  Written by Emery P. Dalesio RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Venus flytrap’s precarious survival in the wild along the coast of the Carolinas faces an added threat from poachers looking to cash in by uprooting and selling them. Three people were arrested this week and charged with uprooting an endangered species without permission, a [...]

Wonderful news! Late last year, the first jaguar confirmed in the U.S. in 3 years was spotted in southern Arizona. And now for the bad news: the proposed Rosemont Copper Project in the Coronado Forest would destroy the habitat that these magnificent animals are seeking. Open-Pit Copper Mine – A Disastrous Idea This open-pit copper [...]

  For at least the last five years, Kennecott Utah Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, violated the federal limits on ore and waste rock production at its Bingham Canyon Mine, the largest open pit copper mine in the world. Kennecott agreed in 1994 to limit production to 150,500,000 tons of ore and waste rock [...]