Entries for category "Print | Web"
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 14, 2008
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Move over Captain Planet, the environment has a new superhero—a mystery man in a silver mask known as El Hijo del Santo (Son of the Saint). Part of the popular Mexican wrestling tradition lucha libre (freestyle wrestling), El Hijo del Santo is the spokesperson for Wildcoast Costasalvaje, a nonprofit that…
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wallacejnichols
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Dec. 27, 2007
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Greencastle, Ind. - "The connection between turtles and the wider environmental movement is clear," Wallace J. Nichols, senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, tells E. Dr. Nichols is featured in the latest issue of the environmental magazine, and discusses his work with sea turtles…
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wallacejnichols
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Dec. 27, 2007
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MEXICO CITY — Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night. "I use night-vision goggles and you could see them very clearly," Krebbs said of the caravans of men with guns…
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wallacejnichols
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Dec. 3, 2007
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"We are ocean, period. Seventy percent of the world is ocean and eighty percent of global biodiversity is in it. We need to take care of the ocean. No matter where we are, we depend on it." —Wallace J. Nichols Wallace J. Nichols does much of his turtle research in…
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wallacejnichols
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Nov. 29, 2007
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In response to increasing concerns over global warming, Hollywood has developed a trend of environmental films. This trend has led to the release of two mainstream documentaries, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour. Stuart Pimm, Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School…
