Losing Winter As Climate Change Takes Hold, Our Coldest Season is the First Casualty
Fewer days for skiing, snowman-building and maple sugaring are bringing the realities of global warming home.
January 2008
Snowmobiles and Public Lands Unacceptable Impacts on a Winter Landscape
Manufacturers say they’re harmless, but snowmobiles are tearing up our national parks.
Back When it Snowed
Remembrances of snowy (and icy, freezing, wind-whipping) winters past.
SOS: Save Our Snow Winter Athletes Take the Lead in Fighting Global Warming
Top winter athletes take charge in fighting global warming.
COMMENTARY: A Greener Superbowl
There could hardly be a better state to host a "green" Superbowl than Arizona, which needs to call attention to the very immediate realities of pollution and resource depletion and the importance of fast environmental action.
COMMENTARY: A Greener Superbowl
There could hardly be a better state to host a "green" Superbowl than Arizona, which needs to call attention to the very immediate realities of pollution and resource depletion and the importance of fast environmental action.
U.S. Lagging on Environment
A new analysis released by researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities found that the United States ranked 39th of 149 countries on the basis of overall environmental performance.
The High Price of Wild Meat
Hungry refugees in East Africa are turning to chimps for protein.© Getty Images A new report from the wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic finds that hunting by hungry East African refugees is decimating populations of chimpanzees, buffaloes and zebra in Tanzania. More than half a million refugees from Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of […]
Week of 1/27/08
Dear EarthTalk: What is the status of sharks around the world? I see occasional stories about sharks attacking humans, but on balance aren’t we a lot more brutal to them then they are to us?
Dear EarthTalk: What are some of the best online sources of environmental information?
Semana del 27/01/2008
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es el impacto de toda la basura generada por la gente, en gran parte de sus coches en las carreteras? ¿Qué puedo hacer para ayudar a limpiarlo? ¿Cómo podemos reforzar las leyes para prevenirlo?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Mi tío trabajó más de una década en el último piso de un edificio de oficinas con torres de teléfonos celulares directamente sobre él. Lo diagnosticaron recientemente con cáncer. ¿Hay prueba científica de alguna correlación entre la exposición a la radiación de las torres de teléfonos celulares y el cáncer?