Water scarcity impacts at least 2.7 billion people in 201 river basins for at least one month each year, according to a new report published in the online journal PLoS ONE from the Public Library of Science. “Global Monthly Water Scarcity: Blue Water Footprints versus Blue Water Availability”,  analyzed 405 river basins around the world, [...]

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“The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.” Bill Mollison, Gardening for the Future of The Earth “Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall [...]

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By Dr. David Nostbakken Believe it or not, one of the challenges students face is too many choices In the midst of my regular work at Ecology Global Network and related enterprises, I am happily able to teach a course at Carleton University in Canada’s Capital. My class within the School of Journalism and Communication [...]

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In the US, May is National Bike Month. Tweet

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In 5:22, Saul Griffith unveils the invention of his company Makani Power: a giant kite turbine that creates surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy, while encouraging the “audacious plans of young people.” Tweet

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Cross-posted from Ecology Today For the past five years, artist and photographer Rachel Sussman has traveled around the world documenting organisms that have lived for more than 2,000 years. From 500,000-year-old actinobacteria in the Siberian permafrost and a lone spruce in Sweden, to a 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast and an “underground forest” in [...]

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