No, this isn’t a very good photo, is it? That’s probably because it’s an insanely good photo! Take a deep breath…and fall into White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, courtesy of Lightchaser/Flicker and shared through The Nature Conservancy’s Flickr Group.
Check out all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the Conservancy’s Flickr [...]

Yes, I’m an avid birder and professional bird conservationist — but that doesn’t mean I don’t take time for other flying things…like hundreds of thousands of bats.
I took a few days off in late August and went down to visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico, an easy drive for me from my [...]

Indigenous Aboriginal ranger Romeo Lane points out an ancient painting of a six-legged goanna lizard to the curious crowd of media and visitors — myself included — that surrounds him.
The painting is just one of thousands that scatter the escarpments of Arnhem Land in the very northern tip of Australia’s vast tropical savanna. This rich cultural [...]

OK, so it turns out that you can’t get solar power from human hair, as we reported last week. But you can track a gorilla in Uganda online now, OK? Is that good enough for you? Read all this morning’s vetted and triple-fact-checked hot green news, only in Cool Green Morning:

That story about a Nepalese [...]

Renewable energy is poised to be the wave of the future, but what impact will it have on landscapes and wildlife?
In the United States, at least 67 million acres will be developed for new energy projects by 2030. While these projects — including wind, solar and biofuels — will help reduce carbon emissions [...]

Could watermelon — my favorite melon — also become the hot new biofuel? It’s not an new episode of “The Simpsons” — it’s just another fabulous roundup of the top 5 green links o’ the morning, here in Coolness:

350 vs. 450? The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajenda Pachauri, has come down [...]

Here’s an update on the whereabouts of the Long-billed Curlews that were tagged in Montana this past May, the 7 birds seemed to have temporarily settled down. We’ll see if they stay there or continue to move as fall draws nearer.
Of the 7 birds, 3 are now in the southern United States and 4 are in [...]

Start with a sea turtle, throw in $2.4 billion, add a little psychotherapy and you’ve got a recipe for the coolest green links of the day.

Who doesn’t love sea turtles? So why would you want to harm them by eating fish like black sea bass or Atlantic flouder? The Daily Green offers up a list [...]

I admit it: I could spend all day staring this image shot by tguttilla of a morning at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. Check out all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the Conservancy’s Flickr group by people like you — at my.nature.org. And don’t forget to enter your best [...]

There’s nothing better in a southern Arizona summer than spending a morning on the San Pedro River — the last free-flowing river in Arizona — after a gentle cooling rain. The air is fresh, the dappled leaves of the giant cottonwoods are reflected in the shimmering water. And the birds are warming up for their [...]