L.A. Bans the Bags

Last week, Los Angeles became the largest city in the U.S. to ban disposable plastic bags from supermarket checkouts.

Radioactive Tuna

Bluefin tuna from the Sea of Japan are coming to California’s coast contaminated with radioactive waste.

For the Love of Elephants

A Touching Memoir About Finding Love, and Saving Animals, in AfricaBeing at home in nature has never been a problem for Dame Daphne Sheldrick. In her new book, Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), she recounts her life in Kenya surrounded by the African wilderness and its creatures. Central […]

Semana del 27/5/12

Querido DiálogoEcológico: He visto bastantes anuncios celebratorios en televisión, muchos patrocinados por British Petroleum (BP), instándome a ir de vacaciones en el Golfo de México. ¿Pero han vuelto las cosas realmente “a la normalidad?”

Querido DiálogoEcológico: El plomo fue eliminado gradualmente hace mucho tiempo de la gasolina de automóvil, pero se ve todavía en el combustible de aviación y es la fuente más grande de emisiones de plomo ahora en EEUU. ¿Qué se está haciendo?

Chemicals in Umbilical Cord Blood

Dear EarthTalk: A few years back a study found over 200 chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of newborns, particularly African American, Asian and Hispanic babies. What are the causes of this phenomenon and what can be done about it?

Predatory Birds Make Comeback

Dear EarthTalk: I understand there is good news about the recovery of bird species like the Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle and others owed to the 1972 ban on DDT. Can you explain?

Glacier Collapse Caught on Video

Part of a glacier cracks and falls into the Arctic Ocean, as captured by the group One World One Ocean. Members of One World One Ocean shot this video while traveling to the Arctic. The organization, created by filmmaker Greg MacGillivray and his family, works to educate people about ocean problems using multimedia. The organization […]

Earth Now

For those interested in climate change, NASA has a new app to see how and why climate data is not the same as it used to be. The updated 1.4 version of the Earth Now app was developed by the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in order to give users a way to track global climate […]

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