While Floridian beachgoers may wonder if the state will suffer the same rash of shark attacks it did last summer, scientists are still debating what prompted the bites. The attacks weren’t more frequent than usual, but conservation groups have pointed fingers at four small tour operators that offer educational, adrenaline-packed feeding dives where, at popular […]
Andy McIntosh made his way through a maze of garbage, undeterred in his search for a new energy source. After a 10-minute hike through the city dump, McIntosh found what he was looking for: thousands of discarded tires. "When I see a tire, I see green," says McIntosh, speaking in both the environmental and monetary […]
Beaked whales, distinguished by the strange, teeth-like protuberances from their lower jaws, have been around virtually unchanged for 30 million years, but are still the least studied large mammal in the world. Found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide, beaked whales are generally shy animals. Their habitat’s ocean-depth topography rivals the Grand Canyon and they […]
Twenty-five years after pregnant women and children were evacuated from the neighborhood bordering the Love Canal toxic waste site, environmental health pioneer Lois Gibbs is poised to launch a national campaign aimed at redirecting the way government and industry regulate environmental hazards in the United States.
The Rio Grande River has dried up along the US-Mexico border.
Former tobacco growers like Sam Askins are turning to organic vegetable crops to rescue their farms.
At the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, a conservation center run by the National Zoological Gardens, 69 elephants, 20 of them under five years old, eat, work and bathe before the eager eyes and camera lenses of local and foreign tourists. Founded in 1975, Pinnawala is home to many second- and third-generation animals, the progeny of the original adoptees.
Right up there with air and water, one of the last things in nature we should be tampering with is our food — at least not without due consideration of all the ramifications.
How tens of millions of consumers spend their money is akin to casting a vote between competing and ascending forms of agriculture: genetically modified foods versus organics. Both expanding industries say their techniques are the best and most sensible way to feed the world’s growing population. Both maintain they’re sustainable forms of agriculture and lighter on the environment than conventional better-living-through-chemistry agribusiness.
Adding to Norway’s already controversial wildlife policies regarding seal and whale hunting, the Norwegian government equipped hunters with helicopters, snowmobiles and a budget of nearly $885,000 last February to kill 10 of the estimated 25 wolves in the country. During the hunt in Osterdalen, a valley along the Swedish border, one wolf escaped after the […]
