Cow Hormones in the Water
Estrogen from lactating cows contaminates water supplies and damages fish populations…and it’s unregulated.
Semana del 10/6/12
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómo puedo saber qué pesticidas están en la comida que como?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Una de las objeciones a la energía eólica ha sido que las turbinas pueden matar pájaros. ¿Ha habido algún progreso en el desarrollo de energía eólica no peligrosa a las aves?
Diesel Fuel Pollution
Dear EarthTalk: Diesel exhaust from trucks, buses, large ships and farm equipment is especially unhealthy. What progress has been made in curbing diesel pollution?
Making Your Small Business Greener
Dear EarthTalk: I own a small business and would like to do what I can to minimize its impact on the environment. Can you help me?
Big Tobacco’s Role in Pushing Flame Retardants
Much of our furniture and baby goods are loaded with toxic flame retardants thanks to Big Tobacco.
From Fields of War to Fields of Green
A new program helps veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to find a future in organic growing.
Celebrating a River
Folk Music, Family Fun, and Environmental Awareness at the Clearwater FestivalAs a college student, I overhear a lot of conversations regarding music festivals. Talk mostly centers around the big names (Lollapalooza in Chicago, Coachella in California, Bonnaroo in Tennessee) and related music activities (I don’t think I need to elaborate here). But there are a […]
Semana del 3/6/12
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Entiendo que hay buenas noticias acerca de la recuperación de especie de pájaro como el Halcón Peregrino, el Aguila de cabeza calva y otros debido a la prohibición del DDT en 1972. ¿Pueden explicar?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Unos años atrás un estudio encontró más de 200 sustancias químicas en los cordones umbilicales de recién nacidos, especialmente norteamericano especialmente bebés afroamericanos, asiáticos e hispanos. ¿Cuáles son las causas de este fenómeno y qué se puede hacer acerca de ello?
New Food Pesticide App
Dear EarthTalk: How do I learn about what pesticides may be on the food I eat?
Midnight Sun: Iceland
Watch the phenomenon of midnight sun, when the sun shines for 24 hours in the summer. Shot by Joe Capra, this film is a time lapse of Iceland’s landscape bathed in the golden light from the sun that never fully sets during the summer. With only a car and his equipment, Capra traveled the country […]