+Wildlife | July 28, 2011

Fish Food Chain Flounders – and Finds Its Way Back

By Tara Thean

As we reported last month, one of the biggest obstacles to sustainable fish farming is that raising big, popular carnivores  such as salmon and tuna requires us to fish – and overfish – far down the food chain, in the ranks of smaller species like anchovies. Those are the little critters the bigger fish like [...]

+Wildlife | July 14, 2011

How Human Beings Are Downgrading Life on Planet Earth

By Bryan Walsh

We live in the Anthropocene, as some scientists have come to call our new geologic era. The term acknowledges the fact that human beings—nearly 7 billion strong and growing—have so much influence over the life, geography and even chemistry of planet Earth that we’re now essentially responsible for the whole show. For good and for [...]