The chief executives of 10 major U.S. corporations have joined together to call for immediate federal action to combat human-induced global warming, saying that voluntary efforts are inadequate to do the job.
The President would like to see the U.S. producing and using 35 billion gallons of so-called alternative fuels by 2017. But environmentalists are very unhappy with the Bush plan which would require putting an additional 129,000 square miles of farmland —an area the size of Kansas and Iowa—into corn production.
California artist Charles Carter literally returned to nature, shunning modern conveniences for years while living in a tipi to find the solitude and sanctuary that became his muse. His jewelry and paintings reflect the primitive spirit of the land.
Trees are important tools in the fight to stave off global warming, because they absorb and store the key greenhouse gas emitted by our cars and power plants, carbon dioxide (CO2), before it has a chance to reach the upper atmosphere where it can help trap heat around the Earth’s surface.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Los animales usados en las salas de clase para disección, ¿son salvajes? Y si lo son, ¿no pone esto en peligro a sus poblaciones? ¿Existen otros problemas relacionados con la disección en las escuelas?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuáles son los pros y contras de la acuacultura marina, de cultivar peces oceánicos en vez de cazarlos en su medio natural?
Marine aquaculture, an age-old practice in parts of Asia, has grown in popularity in western countries in recent years in response to dwindling supplies of wild fish in the world’s oceans.
Our shrunken, financially imperiled Amtrak system is a ghost of the network we tore up in search of modernity and the personal freedom afforded by automobiles. Our rail infrastructure now has half as many miles as existed in 1910. But cities are beginning to rebuild what was lost, turning to light-rail systems, fast ferryboats and dedicated bus corridors.
With Democrats settling into their leadership roles after taking control of both houses of Congress earlier this month, global warming seems to be the issue du jour on Capitol Hill. Last week, new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) kicked things off by proposing the creation of a special House committee to deal with human-induced climate […]
In a new study issued last week, automotive consumer information service Intellichoice.com reported that gasoline-electric hybrid cars and trucks—favored by environmentalists for sipping instead of guzzling gas—have significantly lower total cost of ownership than equivalent traditional gas-only models.
According to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), most animals used in dissection—including amphibians, birds, snakes, turtles, fish and invertebrates—are taken from the wild, even though many have been declining in population
