Christmas shoppers beware! According to researchers from the Michigan-based nonprofit Ecology Center, one in three of more than 1,500 popular toys now on store shelves contain unacceptably high levels of potentially toxic chemicals.
It takes a long time to get to know a whale. Moira Brown, a senior scientist with the New England Aquarium’s right whale research team, has been spending more than two months a year studying right whales in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Maine for the past 24 years.
As a child, I had a creek in my backyard. My younger brother and I lived at the creek. The minute perfection of a baby crawdad held in my palm elicited one of my earliest moments of wonder.
Green was all the rage at last week’s Los Angeles Auto Show.
Last week representatives from 29 different environmental, science and conservation groups presented their top policy recommendations to President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.
In a videotaped message prepared for California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s summit on climate change last week, U.S. president-elect Barack Obama reiterated his strong support for significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions despite continuing economic turmoil at home and abroad.
Just when you were getting ready to splurge for that new video gaming console this holiday season, here comes the eco-Grinch.
Mining gold used to mean sifting through pans of water and muck to find precious nuggets. That evolved to crawling through dark passages deep within the Earth. The newest gold mine has plastic, a circuit board and the digits of that girl you met at the bar last night.
A new study from a team of UK researchers shows that access to green space is an important factor in reducing health inequities between the haves and have-nots.
Environmentalists and electronics recyclers joined forces last week to announce the launch of the e-Stewards Initiative, the first independently audited and accredited certification program for North American e-waste recyclers.
