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30-Day Guide to a Smaller Carbon Footprint

Melting icebergs, rise in sea level, threatened animal species, increase in severe storms are just a few effects of global warming. Some believe climate change is a natural part of the planet’s life,...

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Sea Turtles of Florida’s Canaveral National Seashore

I was in awe of hearing that more than 100 turtles crossed an active runway at New York’s J.F.K airport recently. These diamondback terrapins that inhabit the surrounding brackish wetlands delayed air...

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Off the Beaten Path in Costa Rica: Exploring Manuel Antonio and Rainmaker...

MANUEL ANTONIO NATIONAL PARK The first Jeff Corwin Experience DVD I bought was about Costa Rica. I had seen the show so many times that I’d say the lines even before him. “It’s time to go from a...

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Andros, Bahamas: Unexplored Paradise

“I don’t see any bonefish!” I said, standing on a flatboat in the middle of shallow aqua green waters of Fresh Creek in Andros, the largest island in the Bahamas 30 miles west of Nassau. I walked to...

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Saving Elephants in India: Dr. Tammie Matson

It is not uncommon for newspapers in India to report elephant and other wild animal encounters in towns and villages. These creatures are losing their habitat and finding nowhere to go but the human...

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Proud Spirit Dogs: A Photo Essay

There are plenty of people who tirelessly work to save unwanted and abused animals. I recently got an opportunity to spend time with two of them. Melanie Sue Bowles and Jim Bowles, founders of the...

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Saving Elephants in India: Dr. Tammie Matson

It is not uncommon for newspapers in India to report elephant and other wild animal encounters in towns and villages. These creatures are losing their habitat and finding nowhere to go but the human...

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Give the Gift of Hope to Wildlife this Valentine’s Day

“The animal kingdom is in critical condition. The affliction isn’t a disease, but rather a crisis of endangerment that threatens to wipe out many of the world’s animal species forever. Ironically, the...

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Saving Horses for 20 Years: Melanie Sue Bowles, Founder of the Proud Spirit...

(Melanie Sue Bowles, Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, Arkansas) HBO’s new racing drama Luck ceased production after the third horse died on the set. The young thoroughbred was euthanized after it hurt...

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Book Review: I am Not a Plastic Bag by Rachel Hope Allison

Have you ever thought twice about tossing that plastic bottle in the garbage? Or that handbag you threw in the trash because you got bored with it? Well, they don’t disappear into thin air. They...

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