The chemical industry’s attack against a key cancer report is just one of its attempts to keep information out of the public eye.
Filled with nostalgia for hot days and salty sweets, each year hundreds of thousands of baseball fans make the pilgrimage to Cooperstown, NY, to celebrate America’s oldest past time. Given the town’s unique heritage, it’s easy to understand why its citizens are protecting their town against fracking. And towns across America are following suit.
Despite its remarkable rebound, the Cabo Pulmo reef in California and other coral reefs worldwide face deep peril due to climate change-induced stressors. As dissolved CO2 levels rise, ocean waters turn more acidic. Turn up the acidity level too high and you threaten a reef’s very existence.
Straw bale houses are making a comeback. Straw, which has been used as an insulating material for many centuries, is an especially popular building material in drier areas such as California, Arizona and Mexico. These houses are incredibly energy efficient, but the cost may prohibit many homeowners from owning one.
Genetically-modified foods dominate American agriculture, resulting in increased herbicide use, a surge in herbicide-resistant weeds, and the contamination of conventional and organic crops. In early 2011, the USDA approved Monsanto’s GE alfalfa.
Nanotechnology promises to clean up pollution in some of the most polluted places in the United States, but uncertainties about the technology’s effects have some people worried about creating and unleashing a new kind of contaminant.
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Last year, the Arctic lost the second highest amount of ice since monitoring first began. As Arctic ice melts, warmer waters could shift weather patterns elsewhere, bringing more extreme weather to the United States. Low-lying communities are also affected as entire islands disappear under rising ocean waters.
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A new crop of meat eaters are greening their eating habits by demanding to know the face of their food in a quest for better quality meat that not only tastes better, but also comes from humanely treated animals. By buying directly from the ranch, “cowpooling” can also cost 80 percent less than store-bought meat.
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Get more bang for your home-buying buck with an Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) while expanding your green options. Federally-insured mortgage programs like the Federal Housing Administration and the Veteran’s Administration sponsor EEMs.
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Last year, the Arctic lost the second highest amount of ice since monitoring first began. As Arctic ice melts, warmer waters could shift weather patterns elsewhere, bringing more extreme weather to the United States. Low-lying communities are also affected as entire islands disappear under rising ocean waters.
Environmental stressors are battering an ocean ecosystem that was once thought to be unsinkable. Climate change impacts may be the final coup de grace. Scientists recommend reducing overfishing, pollution and habitat loss to build ocean resilience so that it may weather the climate change storm.
Dr. Peter Gleick has been working on water issues for almost 30 years. His interest in bottled water, however, has grown in the last several years alongside the growth of the bottled water industry itself. His new book, Bottled and Sold, examines the environmental costs of bottled water and how Americans can alter their bottled water-drinking habits.
On January 28, 1969, the world awoke to an environmental nightmare unfolding off the pristine California coast. The Santa Barbara oil spill sparked the nation’s first environmental movement, but the push to drill in the Pacific has never really gone away.
Nanotechnology promises to clean up pollution in some of the most polluted places in the United States, but uncertainties about the technology’s effects have some people worried about creating and unleashing a new kind of contaminant.
