Often when animal lovers travel, they see animal abuse that disturbs them. Compassionate Traveler's website gives them a place to learn more about a tourist destination before they travel, and it also gives them an opportunity to do something about animal welfare issues they might observe.... posted on May 03 2003, 1,023 reads

Earthday Resources coined a new word for EarthDay (April 22nd) this year: greenwash ... falsely using environmental values to promote one's own products. In its 'Don't Be Fooled 2003' publication, they report on the top ten companies guilty of greenwashing.... posted on May 01 2003, 1,210 reads

What do Australian Aboriginal Grandmothers and Coalminer’s Daughter in West Virginia have in common? They just won the coveted Goldman prize -- often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Environmentalism -- for their grassroots activism.... posted on Apr 25 2003, 1,063 reads

By eating 2 fewer meat dishes a week, the savings in grain could feed 225 million people every year.... posted on Apr 18 2003, 987 reads

Amount of bulk mail delivered annually by each of the U.S. Postal Service's 293,000 letter carriers: 17.8 tons. Numbers of trees it takes to make one ton of paper: 24.... posted on Apr 09 2003, 1,422 reads

Can dogs really help children to read? You bet – an audience that doesn’t make corrections is a supportive audience. ... posted on Apr 03 2003, 1,254 reads

The Canadian Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans recently announced that it has authorized the killing of 975,000 harp seals during the next three years. ... posted on Mar 24 2003, 1,370 reads

A Lioness Adopts Her Prey
A lioness in Kenya is doing the unthinkable -- adopting her prey! That's right, this lioness has just adopted her third calf (oryx) in three months and is said to be "fiercly protective" when any humans come near.... posted on Mar 05 2003, 1,471 reads

Can ordinary people solve world problems like water pollution? Maybe so – these three teenagers have found a way to change dirty water into clean water.... posted on Jan 23 2003, 1,086 reads

A vast, but previously unknown structure has been discovered around the edges of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astronomers believe it could hold clues as to how the Milky Way and other galaxies evolved.... posted on Jan 16 2003, 1,005 reads