Following a 2005 Congressional mandate, the federal government has finally implemented an increase in the percentage of renewable fuels consumed by vehicles on America’s roadways. The new standards, announced by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson last week, require 4.02 percent of all motor fuel—or about 4.7 billion gallons—sold in the U.S. in 2007 to come from renewable sources, primarily agricultural crops.
Most researchers agree that even small changes in temperature are enough to send hundreds if not thousands of already struggling species into extinction unless we can stem the tide of global warming.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómo puede el público convencer a las corporaciones para que sean más responsables con el medio ambiente?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Siempre que visito mi imprenta local, me asalta el olor fuerte de sustancias químicas, y me pregunto si la salud de los trabajadores no está siendo afectada. ¿Es peligrosa la exposición a tales sustancias, puede causar problemas de salud, y que se puede hacer para limpiar el proceso de impresión?
Coral reefs are dying at an unprecedented rate, due in large part to a brightly colored predatory invader called the crown of thorns starfish.
Cave dwellers in Southern Spain are organizing to save their neighborhood from destruction as police conduct raids and fill the structures with dirt.
Haitian craftspeople are turning the country’s rampant garbage into vibrant art—making delicate metal sculptures from oil drums and floral pins from white plastic jugs.
With more than 17 million recreational boats trolling U.S. waterways, the more efficient four-stroke boat engines may still pose an environmental problem. The only solution, say environmental advocates, are solar and electric powered boats.
In Baja alone, an estimated 35,000 turtles die in the hands of poachers annually, speared, harvested with long gillnets or caught by hand…
Several innovative programs have been launched to find a balance between the bulldozer of growth and preserving environmental and cultural treasures in the Sonoran Desert which straddles the border between southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. “Geotourism” is the new catch phrase which involves protecting the environment while honoring local people and their customs.
In the struggling industrial city of Brockton, Massachusetts, city officials have opened a tiny utility-scale solar electricity plant on the four-acre site of an abandoned gas plant. The rows of solar photovoltaic panels began generating an average of 425 kilowatts to the grid in September 2006, turning a vacant lot of capped coal-tar residues into the largest utility-scale solar PV facility in the U.S.
