It takes a long time to get to know a whale. Moira Brown, a senior scientist with the New England Aquarium’s right whale research team, has been spending more than two months a year studying right whales in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Maine for the past 24 years.
Christmas shoppers beware! According to researchers from the Michigan-based nonprofit Ecology Center, one in three of more than 1,500 popular toys now on store shelves contain unacceptably high levels of potentially toxic chemicals.
A coalition of environmental groups is calling for a moratorium on petroleum development of the tar sands in the Canadian province of Alberta.
It’s no wonder that worldwide demand for palm oil has surged in recent years. Long used in cosmetics, palm oil is now all the rage in the snack food industry, since it is transfat-free and therefore seen as healthier than the shortening it replaces.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Llegué a casa hoy para encontrar otra pila de guías telefónicas en mi puerta. Creo que son un gran desperdicio de papel, especialmente en esta era electrónica. ¿Cómo puedo parar el arribo de estos libros? Mejor todavía: ¿Cómo podemos hacer que las compañías telefónicas no los sigan imprimiendo?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He notado mucha erosión de playa a lo largo de la costa del este de los E.E.U.U. Las playas son virtualmente inexistentes en ciertos lugares. ¿Es esto un ciclo que generalmente se corregirá automáticamente, o estas playas se han ido para siempre a causa de la subida del nivel del mar u otras causas ambientales?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 80 to 90 percent of the sandy beaches along Americas coastlines have been eroding for decades. Individual beaches may lose only a few inches per year; others may lose much more.
As a child, I had a creek in my backyard. My younger brother and I lived at the creek. The minute perfection of a baby crawdad held in my palm elicited one of my earliest moments of wonder.
Last week representatives from 29 different environmental, science and conservation groups presented their top policy recommendations to President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.
Green was all the rage at last week’s Los Angeles Auto Show.
Many of us have little or no use for phonebooks anymore. While such directories are helpful for that occasional look-up of a service provider or pizza place, consumers and businesses increasingly rely on the Internet to find goods and services.
