Trading Faces
To prepare for future outbreaks and pandemics, we first have to get a handle on the animals—legal and illegal—crossing our borders. An organization called EcoHealth Alliance is leading the way.
Slice of Life: Ruins
A young woman stands with her child in the wreckage of the National Cathedral in Port au Prince, Haiti…
The Year of Environmental Disasters
New York’s public radio station, WNYC, has been tracking the major events of 2010 in its “What Happened in 2010” series—and has one devoted to climate and energy events. Done as a timeline, the listing serves as a vivid reminder of what a calamitous year 2010 was from an environmental standpoint.
Chromium in the Water
Just before the Christmas holidays—December 20, 2010, to be exact—Environmental Working Group released a report that many home faucets are supplying drinking water that’s laced with the cancer-causing metal chromium-6
Why is fracking so controversial?
Can you explain what “fracking” is with regard to natural gas exploration and why it is controversial?
Better Times for the Sockeye Salmon
Dear EarthTalk: Why did 34 million wild sockeye salmon return to the Fraser River in British Columbia this year? The run had been declining for 20 years before now.
Semana del 26/12/10
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Pueden explicar lo qué es la “desertificación” y por qué es un asunto ambiental importante?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué está pasando con los detergentes de lavaplatos ultimamente? Evidentemente no trabajan como antes. Espero que lo que se ha hecho ayude al ambiente porque no está ayudando mis platos.
Nice House if You Can Get It
A Green Home with All the Extras? Keep Dreaming.Since 2008, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has hosted a special exhibit called Smart Home: Green + Wired. For an extra $8, you can tour a seemingly perfect environmentally friendly house. It’s an actual freestanding house on the museum’s lawn, a stack of thrifty modular units […]
Tomato Troubles
A First Attempt at Canning Goes AwryWe literally had a bumper crop of tomatoes this past fall, vining into our driveway. Lest you think you need a large, bucolic setting for growing stuff, most of our produce is produced in a long, skinny bed dug for that purpose along our side yard, and underneath a […]