Quoted: Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, studies rock layers and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy includes two related subfields: lithologic or lithostratigraphy and biologic stratigraphy or biostratigraphy.

Quoted: Urban Neighbors celebrates a glorious and often overlooked phenomenon of New York City: the abundance of wildlife within its five boroughs. It refutes the canard that pigeons, cockroaches, and rats are the city’s only local wild fauna.

Quoted: TIST - The International Small Group Tree Planting Program, a sustainable development and community reforestation program, run by I4EI - Helping people meet their needs while doing great things for the environment...

Mr. Pres, tear down that wall!!!

Quoted: Opponents say the 12-to-15-foot-tall steel fence and its construction will disrupt the habitat of jaguars, pygmy owls and other sensitive fauna in the wildlife refuge, and encourage illegal immigrants to use more remote, ecologically delicate terrain.

Quoted: Abari is a socially and environmentally committed research,design and construction firm that examines, encourages, and celebrates the vernacular architectural tradition of Nepal. Nepal posses sophisticated traditional knowledge of natural materials like adobes, bamboos, stones and reed, and Abari as a research and design firm tries to promulgate these materials into contemporary design practices.

This looks excellent. The article includes a slideshow about the exhibition.

Quoted: You walk into darkened space where a tumbling aqua-lighted waterfall seems to descend from the ceiling; letters projected on its turbulent surface spell “water” in multiple languages.

Beautiful photos of the Adirondacks with multimedia feature...

Quoted: After purchasing a vast unbroken wilderness in Adirondack Park that only loggers and a few hunters have ever seen, the Nature Conservancy will not preserve it all as public land.

I'm so interested in these floating islands in Loktak Lake.

Quoted: THE sangai, or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), a delicately beautiful animal found only in the hilly north-east Indian state of Manipur, has already had one let-off. In 1951 it was ruled extinct. Happily, a half-dozen were found two years later living on a vast island of floating biomass on Loktak lake, the second-biggest lake in India, to the south-east of Manipur's state capital, Imphal.

Local, organic solutions to our energy needs. Sounds promising!

Quoted: Three or four times during the growing year the lawn blooms with piles of biomass, ripe for lighting someone’s house or powering someone’s air conditioner. Think of it as the energy equivalent of the eat-local campaign.