Anne Holmblad of Chelsea, Vermont has used a wheelchair for all her life, but that didn’t stop her from joining a religious boat trip around the Thousand Islands area of South Florida. "In a canoe I’m as mobile as everyone else," she says. "I’m able to touch my environment in a way I rarely can. The highlight was sneaking into narrow inlets, pulling myself through the mangroves, never knowing if I’d get stuck."
The numbers say it all. Each year an average of 25 people across the world die as a result of a shark attack. You have one in 300 million chance of meeting your maker in the mouth of a shark. The sharks, on the other hand, wish they had our odds. While U.S. Department of Health mortality statistics show that Americans are more likely to be killed by lightning than by a shark, the Department of Commerce estimates that people kill 100 million sharks a year. In order to keep up with us, sharks would have to eat the entire combined population of Mexico and Texas every year.
Sixteen-year-old Jake Wilson (not his real name) was the star of his Wayne, Pennsylvania high school football team. Young, smart and in good shape, he was also radiantly healthy. But then Jake started become lethargic. He began to fatigue easily, lost his ambition, seemed disoriented, complained of headaches and grew quite irritable. His school work took a dive as well as his performance on the feild.
The environmental movement is facing some pretty tough challenges. Not only has the shamelessly retrograde George W. Bush been re-elected to the Presidency of the United States, but Republicans, whose overall voting record is significantly less environment-friendly than that of the Democrats, have had their majorities increased in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Mother’s Milk is a Unique Blend of All Thats Best for the Baby, But Its Also Full of Toxic Chemicals
Environmentalists and animal rightists are, at least on the surface, natural allies, but in practice they’re most often at each other’s throats. But, particularly in light of important new information about how animals think and what they feel, shouldn’t environmentalists at least be listening to what the animal rights movement has to say? Can these two communities with so much in common at long last form a working relationship?
"Factory" farming of cows, pigs and chickens is a big business in America, and the waste from this major industry is a significant health hazard.
A recent survey by two environmental groups concludes that on at least 200 occasions, staff scientists at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) have been compelled to alter findings in order to weaken protection for endangered and threatened species.
Seven years after it was brokered by the United Nations, the Kyoto Protocol went into effect last week, despite lack of involvement by the world’s biggest polluter, the United States.
Gem mining around the world can indeed be very destructive to the surrounding environment, leading to many problems such as soil erosion and sedimentation, water pollution and depletion, poisoning of wildlife and vegetation, flooding—even landslides.
