CALL OF LIFE mass extinction film - trailer

Award-winning film - colossal cinematography. Sounds like a must-see.

Whale of a story

Fantastic piece of feature-writing in the New York Times Magazine this week from great journalist Charles Siebert. Treat yourself and be sure to read it. He also has a new book out called The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals.

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As many as 4,550 of the more than 50,000 plant species in the Amazon will likely disappear because of land-use changes and habitat loss within the next 40 years, according to a new Wake Forest University study appearing in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).