President George W. Bush has dubbed Hawaii’s Northwestern Islands a National Monument, a move that creates the planet’s largest marine reserve. At 139,000 square miles, the ecosystem is nearly as large as California and is home to sharks, whales, coral reefs and endangered Hawaiian monk seals, as well as a host of other marine life. The declaration bars commercial activities in the area.
Carmaker Toyota plans to manufacture leaner, greener vehicles that rely on electricity and ethanol as power sources, company president Katsuaki Watanabe recently announced. The company, whose United States fleet fuel efficiency is second only to Honda’s, plans to double the gas-electric hybrid models it offers (to 14) by early next decade.
One positive result of the 1970s energy crisis was the development and widespread adoption of improved insulation materials to maintain indoor energy efficiency. Unfortunately, however, many of these materials have compromised indoor air quality due to their tendency to “off-gas” various airborne toxins, including formaldehyde, trichloroethylene (TCE), benzene and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Qué significa que se haya descubierto una vaca en Alabama con la enfermedad de la "vaca loca"?</B>
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</I> ¿Se puede reciclar los neumáticos viejos? ¿Y en qué se usa el material reciclado?</B>
The nonprofit Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed suit last week calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require labeling for and conduct mandatory reviews of genetically engineered foods to be sold in the United States. Many environmental and consumer advocates fear that genetically engineered (GE) foods can harm human and ecosystem health, and as such have been lobbying Congress for years to pass more stringent regulations governing what has become the fastest growing sector of agriculture.
Based on the results of an investigative series by the Chicago Tribune newspaper, the Consumers Union has issued a recommendation that pregnant women avoid eating tuna of any kind due to the high risk of unhealthy levels of mercury contained therein.
Old tires can indeed be recycled, and thanks to concerted efforts by state and provincial governments from coast-to-coast, as many as 80 percent of them are these days across North America.
Actually, Mad Cow Disease, technically known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), was first detected in North America in January 1993, when a beef cow that had been imported from Britain to the Canadian province of Alberta tested positive.
<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.
