<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U>Acabo de leer que los bebés nacen ahora con sustancias químicas artificiales en su sangre. Esto es bastante alarmante. ¿Qué es lo que está pasando?</B>
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Es verdad que el pastamiento del ganado daña el ambiente?</B>
Welcome to E/The Environmental Magazine first streaming audio debate. This face-off between Wayne Pacelle, chief operating officer of the Humane Society of the U.S., and Charles Stenholm, a former Democratic congressman from Texas and current lobbyist for the horse slaughter industry (as a senior policy advisor at Olsson, Frank and Weeda) was recorded live on WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut March 14, 2006.
It’s not every day you see a U.S. Senator surrounded by garbage. The senator was Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and the location was the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Connecticut, on a site overlooking the tidal Norwalk River, which flows into Long Island Sound. The garbage (including no less than three water bottles) was there to showcase the effectiveness of 275 storm drain filters…
Historically, a seat in the Bush cabinet has required staunch conservative views on a wide range of issues, especially the environment. That is why many political pundits were surprised to learn that the White House has tapped noted conservationist and Wall Street financier Hank Paulson to the top post at the Treasury Department.
In yet more glum climate-related news, international researchers have found that the world’s tropical regions have widened over the past quarter century, most likely as a result of human-induced global warming. The study, published in last week’s issue of the journal Science, details how the tropics have expanded an average of 140 miles toward the poles around the globe.
Most scientists and environmental experts view livestock grazing as an ecological disaster. For starters, cows and sheep are indiscriminate eaters and tend to remove every piece of grass and shrub in sight, thus eliminating shelter and food for birds and other wildlife
“Body Burden,” a 2005 study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG), found that American babies are born with hundreds of chemical contaminants in their bloodstreams. The findings are based on tests of samples of umbilical-cord blood taken by the American Red Cross from 10 babies,
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿De qué se trata la controversia sobre la caza del bisonte en EE.UU. y Canadá?</B>
Environmentalists are incensed at plans for the Department of Energy and Bureau of Land Management to punch thousands of miles of new power lines and pipelines through Western federal lands–including several national parks and forests–over the next 14 months. Last week, Congress passed legislation calling for the fast track construction of energy transfer corridors as a way to quickly shore up electricity supplies across the West.
After years of political wrangling over a contentious plan to build large wind turbines in Nantucket Sound off the Massachusetts coast, a new proposal for a similar type of wind development in nearby Buzzard’s Bay is gaining traction among politicians and environmentalists alike. The key difference is that the latter plan proposes to site its wind turbines in an already busy shipping channel traversed by more than 8,000 commercial ships each year, whereas the earlier Nantucket proposal calls for siting turbines in relatively pristine open ocean.
