Word leaked out last week that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is ready to submit a formal proposal to take grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park off the endangered species list next year. According to agency officials, recovery efforts for Yellowstone’s grizzlies, which began in earnest in the 1980s, are now complete, with the population having doubled in the last two decades.
As the 2004 campaign heats up, Theresa Heinz Kerry, wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, is becoming overtly critical of the Bush administration’s environmental policies.
James Lovelock, the renowned British scientist who first postulated in his Gaia theory that Earth itself is a single living organism, has come out strongly in favor of a massive expansion of nuclear power throughout the world as a salvo against impending global warming.
Last week, Judge Adalberto Jordan of Miami’s U.S. District Court cited insufficient evidence as the reason for throwing out charges that Greenpeace violated an obscure 1872 maritime law when its activists boarded a ship transporting illegally exported mahogany from Brazil in April 2002. The activists intended to hang a banner from the ship reading: "President Bush: Stop Illegal Logging."
Maybe you’ve already seen The Day After Tomorrow, with its shock-&-awe images of Manhattan in a deep freeze & tornadoes bearing down on LA?
Since babies are so much smaller and their metabolism rates are so much higher than those of adults, proportionately they are exposed to higher doses of toxins from everyday foods and consumer products.
Oscar Mayer’s Lunchables are a hit with youngsters because of their bright packaging and fun-to-eat snacks. However, like much of the junk food marketed to children today, behind those colorful boxes and tasty treats lies a spectrum of potential health disasters.
"The natural building movement is where organic food was 20 years ago," says Joe Kennedy, co-editor of the new book <a href="http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3697">The Art of Natural Building</a>. "Now we have exponential growth, and we’re riding an intense wave."
Many experts say that evidence points to a declining world oil supply. According to renowned petroleum geologist Colin Campbell, who has worked for Texaco, BP, Shell and other major oil companies, world oil discovery peaked in the 1960s
While dermatologists continue to remind us that long-term sun exposure can harm our skin, causing wrinkles, burns and age spots and, more seriously, malignant melanoma and other skin cancers, many people still yearn for that sun-worshipper look.
