September 29th, 2016 By Lissa Rankin Guest writer for Wake Up World I was only seven when my parents hired a chimney sweep to wipe out the cobwebs on our brick flue. They didn’t expect...
Category - Animals
Honeybees Pick Up an Alarming Number of Pesticides from Non-Crop Plants, Purdue Researchers Find
1st July 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Honeybees have had a hard time over the last several decades — colony collapse disorder, habitat destruction...
If You Care About Animals and the Earth, Here’s Why You Need to Boycott Palm Oil Immediately
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Found in an astounding array of foods — like baked goods, cookies, chocolate, potato chips and milk — palm oil is in half...
Scientists Discover That Bacteria Have a Collective Memory
By Josh Richardson Guest Writer for Wake Up World Collective motion can be observed in biological systems over a wide range of length scales, from large animals to fish to bacteria, because...
Plastic Waste in the Ocean Will Outnumber Fish by 2050
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A dump truck full of plastic is unloaded into the sea every minute, and experts say the situation is growing worse, with plastic...
When I Dream of a Planet in Recovery…
By Derrick Jensen B.Sc Guest writer for Wake Up World In the time after, the buffalo come home. At first only a few, shaking snow off their shoulders as they pass from mountain to plain...
Environmental Research Reveals Seattle Salmon are on Drugs — Thanks, Humans!
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “From Prozac to caffeine to cholesterol medicine, from ibuprofen to bug spray, researchers found an alphabet soup of drugs and...
Seed Bombs: A Creative (and Fun) Mission to Save the Bees and Butterflies
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World By now most are aware of the dire situation of the honeybee: dwindling numbers, collapsed colonies and dying hives — which endangers...
Animal Communicators Prove It’s Possible to Hear an Animal’s Thoughts
By Makia Freeman Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Animal communicators are people who can fully communicate with an animal just as they would with a normal human person. The communication is...
Conscious Connection – Bridging Species Through Love
By Michael J. Roads Guest writer for Wake Up World Some time ago I had a book recommended to me, The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony. And...
Groundbreaking Study Maps the Decline of Wild Bee Communities in the United States
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World By now most of us are aware that the humble bee is not only responsible for creating one of the most natural, health giving, and ...
The Pink Elephant – Help Halt the Hunting Madness
28th September 2015 By Carmen Allgood Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As the world turns and social media churns out the dirge of human activity all over the world, it becomes increasingly...