With Halloween season just past, it’s a good time to talk about scary stuff. We’re not talking about <I>Saw</I> or <I>The Grudge</I>, here, but the kind of scare-mongering that our elected officials choose to do. You know, the "yellow alert" kind of scary.
The Working Group on Climate Change and Development, a coalition of environmental and relief aid organizations, released a report last week stating that the onset of global warming threatens to undermine progress made in recent decades on lifting residents of many developing nations out of poverty.
Researchers from the GSF-National Research Centre for Environment and Health in Neuherberg, Germany released some disturbing findings last week: The amount of time commuters spend in traffic could actually increase their risk of heart attack.
Developed in the 1970s by the U.S. military, weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) were originally used during the first Gulf War, and have played a key role more recently in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia.
Today just about all Americans have access to clean, safe and healthy tap water. Indeed, in many cases tap water may be safer to drink than some bottled water brands, which may not be subject to testing and might originate from sources near industrial facilities, despite the beautiful nature scenes found on many bottled water labels. Furthermore, about 40 percent of bottled water starts out as—you guessed it—tap water.
When lifelong environmentalists Kim Wells and Bob Scheulen set out to renovate their kitchen in Seattle, they wanted to be both “green and sensible”…
Many venture capitalists seem to be banking on the so-called "clean tech" sector—start-ups committed to sustainable practices and products, embracing such industries as alternative energy generation and water purification. Today, the deals are flowing as both individual "angel" investors and well-established venture capital (VC) funds are vying for their piece of "clean tech."
With hundreds of species going extinct every day in the world’s tropical rainforests, eco-travelers need to see Peru’s cradle of the world’s biodiversity while there are still intact tracts. Posada Amazonas, an eco-lodge along the Tambopata River deep in Peru’s Amazon basin, provides the ultimate jumping-off point to learn about the region’s wildlife and ecology, while also helping the local indigenous community make a sustainable living.
Coombs Family Farms has spent seven generations producing maple syrup while maintaining a commitment to quality, environmental stewardship and sustainable forestry.
Conservation medicine teaches us that one big factor in new epidemics is our wholesale destruction of the environment, which is upsetting nature’s balance.
