May 2008

High-Tech Medicine Boosting Leopard Conservation Efforts - May 13, 2008

Veterinarians made a house call on the world's rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards believed to exist in the wild. And it was captured in a remote part of the Russian Far East near the...

More Itch For Poison Ivy - May 12, 2008

Camping. Fresh air. Stunning vistas. Mountain streams flashing in the sunlight. And the great outdoors offers all kinds of natural conveniences. Like, when you gotta go, there's always the bushes... Uh oh, not so fast. It may be getting itchier o...

Going Green in a Rental - May 9, 2008

Next time you travel, forget renting that gas-guzzler. A few rental car companies are offering hybrids and cars that run on biodiesel. Thanks to consumer demand and rising prices at the pump, the green-car rental business is starting to take off in c...

Follow That Costume! - May 8, 2008

In 1941, there were only fifteen Whooping cranes left in North America -- a flock from Canada that wintered in Texas. In part because of the Endangered Species Act, their numbers slowly increased to 200 by the year 2000. But this is far from enough ...

Cleaning Up The Ashtabula - May 7, 2008

The Ashtabula River in Ohio flows into Lake Erie, one of the four Great Lakes. Generations of kids did their Huckleberry Finn thing down by the Ashtabula, which means "river of many fish" in the Iroquois language. It once teemed with bass, walle...

After a Drought, Ponds All Sing Same Chorus - May 6, 2008

When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But Jonathan Chase of Washington University in St. Louis says that's only part of the story. While a single pond may be...

Green Mother’s Day - May 5, 2008

"Mother Nature"..."Mother's Day." A coincidence? I think not. Mother gave you life, nurtured and sustained you. The same can be said for Mother Nature. So, as Mother's Day approaches, let's look at some ideas that honor your Mother while honoring natu...

Organic Products Go to Market - May 2, 2008

Organic food is becoming trendy, and you'll be seeing more of it at your supermarket, it'll probably be cheaper to. That's because major grocery chains have decided to sell more organic food -- and, the big boys can persuade manufacturers and farmers...

A Botanical War of the Wetlands - May 1, 2008

The common reed looks harmless as it waves in the wind of America's wetlands. But, this exotic plant is one of nature's most effective invasive species, and it's killing the competition. The grass gets a leg up on other aquatic plants by secretin...

April 2008

Answer Blowing in the Wind - April 30, 2008

When it comes to committing to wind power, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, blows the rest of the country away. In 2004, it received the Green Power Partner of the Year Award for buying five percent of the electricity for county buildings from win...

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