New Year’s News Roundup

• North Atlantic right whale “Phantom” (#3808), Gulf of Maine, 2012/Cyndi Bowning, New England Aquarium, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  • Geminid Meteor, Saukville, Wisconsin, Dec 14, 2012/Jeffrey Phelps, space.com • Baby & Nepal, Tete d'Or Zoo, Lyon, Dec 19, 2012/Jeff Pachoud, AFP, google.com • Rendering of male oviraptor displaying feathers during mating/Sydney Mohr, U. of Alberta, Wired.com • Artic Cyclone, August 7, 2012/earthobservatory.nasa.gov • Bamboo shark embryo in egg case, location, date unknown/Channing Egeberg, BBC Nature News

Hello, Nature Lovers!

Hope your holidays were happy. Bet they were busy and didn’t leave much time for keeping up with Nature News. Understandable. With so much news breaking every day, it’s hard to keep up even when you want to. But it’s good to try.

Now that the holidays are past, GNN hopes you’ll make staying connected to and concerned about Nature a personal priority in 2013, because we can’t really appreciate or protect Nature if we don’t know what we’re learning about and doing to it, and the world becomes much more beautiful and precious when we do.

To encourage you along these lines and remind you what a magnificent, fragile and endlessly fascinating place the natural world is, GNN presents a roundup of some, just some, of the stories that have been making news lately.

The stories are sorted into rough categories, some overlapping, to make it easier for you to find an area of interest and perhaps discover new interests along the way.

Scroll through, click through (remember, live links don’t stay live forever) and please visit GNN regularly for more Nature News throughout the year. The categories:

  • Breaking News    
  • The Heavens   
  • Creatures Great & Small                                     
  • Dinosaur Discoveries    
  • Human History    
  • Good Humans/Bad Humans        
  • Mighty Nature    
  • Climate Change: Causes…    
  • … and Consequences                 
  • Science & Tech: Pro & Con    
  • Dolphins & Whales    
  • Our Wonderful World

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