by LouiseGund | Aug 11, 2020 | Conservation, Environment, History, Programs, Wildlife
Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau once called the Sea of Cortez “the world’s aquarium.” Ray Cannon, author of the 1966 book The Sea of Cortez, echoed Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge when he described it as a “painted ocean.” The gulf embraced by Baja California...
by LouiseGund | Aug 6, 2020 | Environment, Nature, Programs, Wildlife
Researchers in Japan have discovered a new way to address the effects of a global decline in the populations of bees and other wild pollinators: blowing bubbles. In 2019 American beekeepers lost about 40 percent of all their honeybee colonies. The honeybee species...
by LouiseGund | Aug 4, 2020 | Broadway, Legislation, Organizations, Programs
Among the many tragedies unfolding around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads is the one affecting the performing arts industry. The postponements, cancellations, and closures of performing arts venues have left an entire generation of actors, singers, dancers,...
by LouiseGund | May 15, 2020 | History, Organizations, Programs
As of April 30, 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) had produced confirmed infections in more than 3,200,000 people and killed more than 231,000 around the world. In the US alone, the virus had infected more than 1 million and killed approximately 60,000. ...
by LouiseGund | May 8, 2020 | Animals, Conservation, Nature, Organizations, Programs, Wildlife
More than 70 percent of our world’s surface is covered by ocean. Unfortunately, that ocean is under siege as a result of the environmental destruction created by human beings. The Ocean Foundation works to mitigate the damage caused by climate change. It aims to...
by LouiseGund | Mar 30, 2020 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Legislation, Nature, Organizations, Programs, Wildlife
Trump administration officials announced in March 2019 that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would consider whether to end the grey wolf’s status as a species receiving protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. By doing so, the administration would transfer...
