Many fruits and vegetables sold in the United States today are treated with pesticides, and residues of these potentially harmful chemicals often remain on their surfaces. Rinsing all produce thoroughly before eating is always a good idea, but many pesticides, fungicides and other agricultural
Is there anything we can do to stop the Bush administration from issuing the same fraudulent energy bill year after year? The House of Representatives has twice passed this bouquet to big fossil-fuel companies, in 2003 and 2004, only to have it fail in the Senate.
According to a new report by a trio of environmental groups, expanding urban sprawl is putting a third of America’s endangered species at risk of extinction within the next two decades as a result of habitat loss.
The influential president of a leading electric utilities industry group told Reuters last week that he is skeptical about passage of the much-vaunted energy plan likely to be reintroduced to Congress this year by the White House.
Fiberglass, a common home insulator that grew popular after the dangers of asbestos became more widely known, is itself now associated with a range of health issues. Microscopic slivers of fiberglass can break loose during handling and be inhaled, irritating the lining of the respiratory
Although salt and various salt derivatives melt ice effectively and make both walkways and roads safer, they can be damaging to the environment. After salt is applied, it washes off paved surfaces into storm drains or onto adjacent ground,
In October I visited Pittsburgh to attend the annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference, and spent an afternoon touring one of the city’s crown jewels: Washington’s Landing, formerly Herr’s Island.
Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton announced last week that state wildlife agencies in Idaho and Montana have been approved to take over management of gray wolf populations in their states from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
According to Friends of the Earth, the amount of devastation from late December’s Indian Ocean tsunami was significantly lower in those coastal areas protected by natural barriers such as mangrove forests and coral reefs.
The tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia in December was a natural catastrophe triggered by a massive undersea earthquake. But rampant coastal development in recent years—which removed the mangrove forests and coral reefs that had previously
