My husband returns to the same reefs every year in the Bahamas, where he has been teaching a coral reef ecology class for the last 14 years. On his 2008 trip, he noticed that the reef fish were missing. The culprits were quickly identified — and during his 2009 course, he and his students were [...]

You won’t see it in any headlines today, but let’s just give a quick shout-out to The Nature Conservancy for turning 58 today! Yep, that’s right, today is the day we were incorporated back in 1951. Times certainly have changed – greenhouse gas emissions, iPhone apps and wind farms are the topics du jour – but conservation is still as [...]

If you’re anything like me, you can’t get your day started without your daily serving of Cool Green Morning.  (Also, caffeine.  Lots and lots of caffeine.)  Read on to get your fix:

Big snakes are becoming a big problem, says the United States Geological Survey.  The group just issued a report concluding that, should the Burmese [...]

That random drunk guy slobbering all over you isn’t the only thing that makes tailgating gross.  Your grandma’s cats have secret double lives as invasives.  Turning off your car won’t kill your starter or cause your engine to explode.  Today’s Cool Green Morning is full of life-changing revelations.  Read on:

What does your beloved pet kitty [...]

Filling your tank with dead trees. Battling climate change with contraception. Robots, toxic waste and the mob. It’s just another Saturday night for some, but for us, it adds up to a pretty wild Cool Green Morning:

Andy Revkin over at Dot Earth asks if, um, family planning might be the “ultimate green technology.” Researchers at [...]

The island nation of Australia has a long history of newcomers landing on its shores — beginning with the first indigenous people, who arrived over 40,000 years ago.
With them they bought what was probably the first introduced animal to Australia – the dingo. While it is highly probable this canine had a significant impact on [...]

When faced with invasive, non-native weeds on the range, the first response for many conservationists is to load up a backpack sprayer full of pesticides.
Spraying chemicals toxic to wildlife and people — under the auspices of protecting wildlife and people — is often portrayed as a necessary evil if we want to stop the spread [...]

If you garden, you’ve probably been tempted once or twice to plant something beautiful, new, exciting… yes, exotic. But you know you shouldn’t.
Wouldn’t it be easier to resist such temptations if it wasn’t possible to buy invasives at your local nursery or garden store in the first place?
A reader from Michigan saw what appeared to [...]

Camels and mosquitoes — what do they have in common? They’re invasive species troublemakers, according to today’s Cool Green Morning green gatherings…and they must be dealt with. (Read that last bit in a horror-show-narrator voice. Yeah, like that — that’s spooky…)

Camels are in numbers Australia’s largest invasive species (probably in size, too), so the Australian [...]

Great — just how I like to start my Monday morning: With a miles-long blob of black goo. See video of this strange phenomenon above, and look below for more info (and some other and decidedly greener links) in this edition of Coolness:

A 12-15 mile long mass of heretofore unknown black algae has been spotted [...]