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Are you ready for your daily dose of adrenaline? We know Nature Conservancy members love outdoor adventures, so we decided to ask you to share your stories of when Mother Nature got ...

A huge Earth Day thank you to everyone who participated and made Picnic for Earth a worldwide celebration. From Washington, D.C. to Kabul, Afghanistan, over 12,000 nature-lovers threw ...

Greenbelt: One of America’s largest all-urban parks is still growing (via Staten Island Advance) CONNECT WITH US On mobile or desktop: • Like The Staten Island Advance on ...

A new study out of Stanford University, scheduled to be published in the journal Energy Policy, argues that New York State can eliminate fossil fuels from its energy mix entirely by ...

Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, and a flotilla of celebrities sing a song titled “Don’t Frack My Mother” that opposes fracking in New York State. The video has some actual ...

Do you know what you're serving? Photo © Oceana   Do you know what you are serving your family tonight? If it’s fish there’s a good chance that you don’t. Today Oceana ...

The Green Buzz this morning is fuel, fuel and more fuel. The Sierra Club’s board of directors has approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history to help ...

Here’s looking at you, kid…frontwards and backwards and every which way in between… Owls can rotate their heads 270 degrees without breaking blood vessels or tearing ...

From eco-demolition to animal testing, here’s what has caught our eye this morning. Thailand faces a burden of care over seized exotic wildlife. (New York Times) A Japanese company ...

Well, it’s not okay for Paul McCartney… It’s the question that’s on everyone’s minds: Is it okay to eat kangaroo meat? (Grist) An unexpected green benefit ...

[Editor's Note: Bill Ulfelder is the Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy in New York. Bill recently returned from a trip to Brazil with volunteer leaders from five chapters. ...

Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. You can follow Mark on Twitter @MarkTercek and find more of his writing on The Huffington Post. As the searing images ...

New York City officials are thinking more about climate resiliency in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. But adaptation — making the city more resilient to intensifying extreme ...

The Nature Conservancy will participate in a live tweet-up and and panel discussion, “Advancing Environmental Conservation in the Latino Community,” on Monday, November ...

One interesting ballot measure that we missed in last week’s election: San Juan county in Washington has banned GMO cultivation. (Treehugger) Could a U.S. carbon tax become a ...