Ten months spent tracking rare snow leopards in isolated areas of northern India and Pakistan has paid off for American photographer Steve Winter, who was today named as wildlife photographer of the year. An exhibition of the winning, runner-up or commended photographs from the competition’s 17 categories goes on show at the Natural History Museum [...]

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Slime Molds are fantastic creatures. As part fungi, part amoeboid, and all slime, their name hails from the time in their life cycle when they are gelatinous. These slimy little organisms are found all over the world feeding on microorganisms from dead plant material. They are found in the soil, on lawns, and in the forest - commonly on deciduous logs. In tropical areas [...]

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Singapore is known for it’s clean streets, argi-design and forward thinking city planners. Yet this takes the cake. The building of the EDITT Tower by the University of Signapore is so green, you’ld think you’ld died and gone to a huge lettuce patch in the sky.

Currently slated for construction in Singapore, the EDITT Tower [...]

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by Matthew McDermott, Brooklyn, NY on 10.24.08

In the same week that it was announced that the UK overtook Denmark to be the world’s foremost producer of electricity from offshore wind farms, the Crown Estate (which holds all of the Queen’s property, but is independent of the monarchy or government) has said that it will be [...]

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by Xan Rice from the Gaurdian, UK

 Victor Matioli’s organic pumpkins are plump, his coriander aromatic and his spinach “very soft, sweet, and tasty”. His half-acre farm is a former rubbish dump in the heart of east Africa’s biggest slum.

So arresting is the sight of tall sunflowers growing amid the rust-coloured shacks and dirt paths of [...]

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For a fortnight now the United States and Canada have been testing out North America’s first fledgling carbon trade.  Two other regional programs are to follow, assuring that nearly half of the United States will be covered by carbon trading programs — with or without leadership from Congress and the White House. 

 
      
“Twenty-four states are working [...]

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Brittlestars, aka ophiuroids, diverged in the Early Ordovician, about 500 million years ago.

Oct. 8, 2008 — Hundreds of new marine species and previously uncharted undersea mountains and canyons have been discovered in the depths of the Southern Ocean, Australian scientists said Wednesday.                    
A total of 274 species of fish, ancient corals, mollusks, crustaceans and sponges new [...]

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