Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

Coyote Seeks City Life

Hal the Coyote snuck into the city from rural areas upstate. He ran and swam and finally made it to Central Park’s many nooks and crannies.



A Look At Some Alternatives To Using Oil

You don’t usually see it, and you don’t usually touch it, but we use oil constantly, when we travel in cars or buses, when we heat our homes, even when we turn on the lights.



Protecting Our Environment

Scientists say that 2005 was the hottest year on record. But it wasn’t just heat that caused alarm; our earth was plagued by a great number of extreme natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.



Owl Spotting in Central Park

Did you know that there are owls living in Central Park? In fact, there are several types, including Long-eared Owls, Great Horned Owls, and Screech-Owls.



Coalfield Kid

Mountaintop Removal (MTR) is a new, dangerous and destructive method of extracting coal.



Bedbugs Find a Home in New York City

Have you ever wondered why someone told you not to let the bedbugs bite? For most of the last fifty years, bedbugs were very rare in North America — but they’re back.



Who am I?

Clue#1: I weigh 1,000 pounds and am 10 feet long.



National Briefs

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said at least 464 immigrants died crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. during the fiscal year that ended September 30.



A Chicken Hero

CHICKEN LITTLE is a Walt Disney movie about a chicken who thinks the sky is falling.



Do You Believe in Magic?

WHAT are neither plant nor mammal nor rock? What causes toothaches, smells like rotten eggs, and eats flesh, but is also used to clean up oil spills and to produce electricity out of sewage?