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Evolutionary Effect: Hunting Pressures Force Species to Evolve, Adapt

Lindsey Blomberg animal, bear, bears, behavior, behavioral, cubs, effect, evolution, fish, Sweden, wildlife

Modern-day hunting practices are affecting the behavior and evolution of various wildlife species.

Want Better Sleep? Consider A Green Mattress

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Avocado, bear, Essentia, foam, Global Organic Latex Standard, Global Organic Textile Standard, GOLS, GOTS, Happsy, Keetsa, latex, LifeKind/OMI, Live & Sleep, Loom & Leaf, Luxi, mattress, mattresses, memory, My Green Mattress, natural, Naturepedic, Nest Bedding, organic, Organic Mattresses, Plushbeds, Saatva, Sleep On Latex, Soaring Heart, Spindle, Tuft & Needle, VOC, VOCs, volatile organic chemicals, Zenhaven

Who would have thought that the comfy mattress you’ve been sleeping on for years contains dozens of potentially harmful substances and materials. Luckily for green-minded consumers, though, there’s never been a better time to find a truly “green” mattress.

EarthTalk

Delisting the Yellowstone Grizzly: Good News or Bad?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer act, bear, bears, Center for Biological Diversity, endangered, federal, grizzly, IUCN, Red List, Ryan Zinke, species, wildlife

Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population has bounced back since the mid-1970s, but environmentalists think the iconic predator still needs federal protection…

EarthTalk

Whazzup with ANWR?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer ANWR, Arctic, bear, bears, caribou, coastal plain, Ed Markey, Michael Bennet, musk oxen, polar, Senate, wildlife, wildlife refuge

Senate Democrats Michael Bennet and Ed Markey introduced legislation last December calling for permanently designating the most sensitive sections of ANWR as wilderness off limits to development.

Wild & Wooly

Where Did The Wild Things Go?

Hannah Owen Alan Watson Featherstone, apex, bear, biodiversity, George Monbiot, lynx, Lynx UK Trust, Scottish Highlands, Trees for Life, wolf, wolves, Yellowstone National Park

In a few pockets of the world wolves have been carefully reintroduced and the effects are proving enchantingly dramatic. With surrounding trepidation they were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. In the years that followed the effects of introducing a pre-existing apex predator have started to unveil. The beaver are being brought back to […]

Grizzly Bear. Credit: Kevin Duffy, FlickrCC

Wild & Wooly

Grizzly Bear Redux

E The Environmental Magazine bear, grizzly, National Parks Conservation Association, North Cascades, NPCA, recovery

If the concept of rewilding interests you, be sure to tune into a special Google Hangout discussion on the recovery of grizzly bears in Washington’s North Cascades hosted by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) this coming Friday March 20th at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT). North Cascades National Park, considered the “wild nearby” […]