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This morning EcoWorldly brings us one of the saddest listicles we’ve read in some time, featuring images of 11 Extinct Animals Photographed Alive. As they put it, statistically our current era is “the 6th major mass extinction in the planet’s history.” It’s not surprising, then, that so many animals have died since the invention or [...]

We’ve always known that many sports – especially motor sports – are environmentally disastrous. Additionally, even with environmentally neutral sports, the ways we tend to play and practice make them harmful. For instance, it came as no surprise to us that TreeHugger’s listicle of 7 Un-Environmental Sports and Activities includes sky-diving, motor boat racing and [...]

We’ve all noticed the recent saturation of microhistories on bookstore shelves. You know, there’s Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, A History of the World in Six Glasses, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1434: The [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]