Wind energy is zero-emissions energy, a renewable resource that is one of our last, best hopes for staving off devastating climate change. Wind energy is the fastest-growing energy source in the world, mushrooming 28 percent annually over the last five years.
Conservation medicine teaches us that one big factor in new epidemics is our wholesale destruction of the environment, which is upsetting nature’s balance.
For modern American women, dealing with uniquely female environmental health issues can be overwhelming. Until recently, government regulators assumed chemicals affected men and women in the same way. But now scientists are challenging that assumption.
When conservative evangelical Christians call for action on global warming, Hindu holy men dedicate themselves to saving sacred rivers and Buddhist monks work with Islamic mullahs to try to halt the extinction crisis, boundaries are clearly being redrawn in the ongoing struggle for the political hearts and minds of the world’s believers.
The Fight Against Highly Toxic Mercury in the Environment Has Just Begun
The Bush Administration is Pushing Ahead with a Full-Scale Revival of Atomic Power The last time anyone ordered a new nuclear power plant in the United States was in 1978, but if you think that means nukes are dead forever, guess again. The Bush Administration and the nuclear industry are making an intense push to […]
america’s troubled waters
Fuel cells are reaching the market, in what could be a $100 billion industry.
Understanding population growth in California and its environmental consequences.
A Marine Ecologist’s Search For Meaning In An Oil Spill
