The Nature Conservancy, the world’s leading international land conservation nonprofit, announced last week that it will be helping the government of China carry out a feasibility study on how to manage flood plain risks downstream from the controversial Three Gorges Dam, a colossal hydro-electric generating facility located on the Yangtze River.
Fewer days for skiing, snowman-building and maple sugaring are bringing the realities of global warming home.
Manufacturers say they’re harmless, but snowmobiles are tearing up our national parks.
Remembrances of snowy (and icy, freezing, wind-whipping) winters past.
Top winter athletes take charge in fighting global warming.
There could hardly be a better state to host a "green" Superbowl than Arizona, which needs to call attention to the very immediate realities of pollution and resource depletion and the importance of fast environmental action.
A new analysis released by researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities found that the United States ranked 39th of 149 countries on the basis of overall environmental performance.
Hungry refugees in East Africa are turning to chimps for protein.© Getty Images A new report from the wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic finds that hunting by hungry East African refugees is decimating populations of chimpanzees, buffaloes and zebra in Tanzania. More than half a million refugees from Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of […]
Sharks are in rapid decline around the world, mostly due to overfishing, which wipes out the sharks themselves as well as the food they depend upon.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es el impacto de toda la basura generada por la gente, en gran parte de sus coches en las carreteras? ¿Qué puedo hacer para ayudar a limpiarlo? ¿Cómo podemos reforzar las leyes para prevenirlo?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Mi tío trabajó más de una década en el último piso de un edificio de oficinas con torres de teléfonos celulares directamente sobre él. Lo diagnosticaron recientemente con cáncer. ¿Hay prueba científica de alguna correlación entre la exposición a la radiación de las torres de teléfonos celulares y el cáncer?
