Antibiotic Resistance
Dear EarthTalk: I understand that the use of antibiotics in raising farm animals is threatening to make bacteria overall more resistant to antibiotics, which has serious life and death implications for people. Can you enlighten and advise what is being done about this?
Population and Environmental Degradation
Dear EarthTalk: Global population numbers continue to rise, as does the poverty, suffering and environmental degradation that goes with it. Has the U.S., under Obama, increased or at least restored its family planning aid to developing countries that was cut when the Bush Administration first took office?
Semana del 30/1/11
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Una serie de incentivos federales tributarios de eficiencia energética expiraron a fines de 2010. ¿Seguirán en vigor algunos de estos programas y si no, existen otras maneras de ahorrar dinero cuando se hace alguna modernización que beneficie el ambiente?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿No son los problemas ambientales principalmente acerca de la salud? ¿Los detractores quieren denigrar a los ecologistas y pintarlos como “abrazadores de árboles,” pero al fin de cuentas la contaminación nos enferma, verdad? ¿No se preocuparían las personas más si entendieran mejor el problema?
The Warming Arctic
Arctic waters are warmer than they have been in 2,000 years, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
Can Carpooling Regain Its Cool?
Carpooling has taken a nosedive in the past two decades, thanks to sprawl and the relatively cheaper cost of buying cars.