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This past summer, a fire at an electrical substation forced data centers in Loudoun County to rely on backup diesel generators as their power source. Grid failures like this happen often, but this time, shoppers in a nearby Walmart parking lot heard the noisy generators start up and reported smellin…
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Cover image: Courtesy of Oceanwise Australia
EXMOUTH GULF, AUSTRALIA – Exmouth Gulf and the Ningaloo Coast form one of Earth’s extraordinary marine ecosystems, home to whales, dugongs, dolphins, turtles, manta rays, sea snakes, and migratory shorebirds. The area is also home to significant Aborigina…
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Featured Image: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) identified on a research expedition. Credit: Edwar Herreno
COCOS ISLAND, COSTA RICA – 
Randall Arauz’s path to marine conservation began as a teenager on Junquillal Beach, Costa Rica, when he witnessed an olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) l…
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From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with author and climate activist Bill McKibben.  In September 1989, along with a poem from John Updike and fiction from Muriel Spark, the New Yorker published an article t…