“Unsung heroes of the environment.” The “green Nobel Prize.” Eco-Ocean Awards, eco-art competitions, and eco-school certifications. If you’re even slightly interested in environmental news, you can’t help but hear and read a lot in the media about the recognition given to individuals, organizations, and entities that do something — almost anything, it seems, by the [...]
Posts under ‘Wildlife’
100 Amazing Places to Protect
What do musk oxen in Greenland, sea turtles in the Caribbean and whales off Argentina’s Peninsula Valdes have in common?
Well, if you guessed that you could see them all with Explorers’ Corner, you’d be right, but that’s ultimately not the most important trait they share.
These wild animals, along with a host of geological and cultural [...]
Please Don’t Banish Bumpy Roads
I like bumpy roads. Not the ones permeated with potholes big enough to break an axle or skew tires out of alignment, but the “washboard” ones that make your teeth rattle, your words vibrate, and your backside tingle when you drive over them.
I like bumpy roads because they force us to slow down. Jiggling along [...]
