Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué puedo hacer, como individuo solo, para ayudar a reducir el calentamiento global?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Son los retardadores de llama utilizados en muchos productos como precaución de seguridad peligrosos para la salud? Y en la afirmativa, ¿qué se puede hacer para evitar contacto con ellos?
As a philosopher I often stand aghast at the manic speed culture we live in. The need for speed pervades the whole culture, from fast food to pharmaceuticals. Incredibly, we prescribe new medications before time-consuming tests can be done and then, in too many cases, we recall them. High tech is an integral part of this scenario. A computer and a high-speed Internet are necessary to keep pace, or perhaps the high-speed technology is part of the cause of our frenzy.
The environmental community is stepping up pressure on the White House to acknowledge and take action to counter global warming. A trio of environmental groups filed suit against the Bush administration in federal court last week for failing to produce a required report on the impact of warming on the nation’s environment, economy and public health. The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace teamed up to file the suit, claiming the federal government is obliged to complete such a report every four years under the terms of Global Chance Research Act of 1990.
Hundreds of marine biologists and zoo and aquarium administrators from around the world have come together to step up international pressure on Japan to end its annual "dolphin drive" in which as many as 20,000 small marine mammals are herded into shallow coves and slaughtered or captured by fishermen.
Flame-retardants are in widespread use in both the U.S. and Canada, primarily in carpet padding, foam cushions, polyester bedding and clothing, wallpaper, and the plastic housings for computers, faxes and other electronics
Most of our own direct contributions to global warming pertain to the modes of travel we choose. For starters, air travel burns more fossil fuels per person than any other form of transport.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: El mercadeo de gaseosas a escolares hizo mucha noticia el año pasado. ¿Cuál es el problema con las bebidas gaseosas y dónde puedo encontrar alternativas más sanas que todavía tienen efervescencia?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es la manera más ecologica de lavar mi auto: haciéndolo yo mismo o llevándolo al túnel de lavado local?
No one told Salamatou Adamou about the "birth dearth." A midwife and widow, she had already given birth to 12 children by the age of 37. "I am exhausted," she said as she struggled through labor with child number 13. Her large family is not all that unusual in drought-stricken Niger, a country where widespread poverty combines with strict patriarchy, early marriages, a lack of health care access and educational opportunities for women, sanctioned polygamy and adherence to fundamentalist Islamic tenets on procreation to produce the highest birth rate in the world, eight children for every woman.
In mid-2005, women around the world had an average of 2.7 children, according to the Population Reference Bureau. That seven-tenths of a percentage point above replacement level may not seem like a lot, but it is contributing to a dramatic population expansion, from 6.4 to 9.2 billion, between now and 2050.
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation with significant population growth, and a new report sees those burgeoning numbers as a factor in our unparalleled impact on the environment.
