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'We were driving along the Wildlife Loop, and we saw this massive herd of buffalo. Our car was like a rock in this river of wildlife. The buffalo were so close that we could just about reach out and touch them.' Photo courtesy Mike...

Photo courtesy Don HendersonA three-year-old male condor as seen from Lookout Studio at South Rim Grand Canyon National Park. Wilderness Adventures' Thanksgiving bus trip to the Grand Canyon resulted in five sightings of the California...

Global Warming, Energy and Air Quality Committee LA County Supervisors have directed staff to prepare a draft Green Building Ordinance that needs your support. Please send a letter by January 7, 2008, to zoup@planning.lacounty.gov and also speak at...

2008 ExComm Member-at-Large A new Angeles Chapter committee - the Chapter Leadership Training Academy - will be responsible for training of newly elected and returning entity officers and appointed chairs, as well as for other volunteer training...

Global warming: we've seen An Inconvenient Truth, and are already witnessing drought, water shortages, horrific fires, and no snow in the east coast, not to mention the melting polar ice caps, with flooding and refugee crises to come. Given these...

, Ph.D. Power plants contribute about 40% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released to the atmosphere in the United States, about 60% world-wide. With permits on tap for about another 150 in the United States alone, millions of addition tons of...

As a time for giving, the holidays are the perfect opportunity to give back to the planet. Making sure you're doing your part to help the environment goes hand-in-hand with many of the holiday traditions we've come to love. Here are a few ways to...

, Ph.D. It seems a sad day indeed that, without a serious overhaul of how chemicals are regulated in this country, parents may well find themselves looking wistfully back to the good ole days when possible 'choking hazard' was the only safety risk...

Photo courtesy Joe YoungProbing the soil to find the permafrost level. I recently participated in the Earthwatch expedition studying 'Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge.' Eleven volunteers from four countries joined the researchers for 10...

Chair, Santa Monica Mountains Task Force Photo by Tom Gamache Solstice Canyon, one of the many scenic wild places that need to be protected in the Santa Monica Mountains Local Coastal Plan. The Angeles Chapter has asked the Sierra Club to...