Scientists believe that an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is growing rapidly as a result of Americans" increasing appetite for ethanol, a carbon-neutral biofuel derived from corn that can be used as a gasoline additive or as E85, a gasoline alternative in automotive engines.
Stung by criticism, the Bush administration recently announced that it is asking independent scientists to review the science behind a federal plan to increase logging in northern spotted owl habitat throughout the Pacific Northwest.
The best reason to care about our growing population is concern for future generations. People a generation or two from now will experience increasing effects of crowding and resource depletion. We should be concerned for our children and grandchildren, who will know a world very different from ours.
More than 500 organizations from the U.S. and abroad, including some of the world’s largest and most influential environmental organizations, have signed a joint statement explicitly rejecting "the construction of new nuclear reactors as a means of addressing the climate crisis."
After keeping the state in suspense for months, the Bush administration finally did what was expected and denied California the right to set its own rules for carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks.
Scientist Nancy Knowlton says we can save these beautiful and unique marine ecosystems if we act quickly….
NYMEX Holdings and Evolution Markets have formed a consortium of some of the nation’s leading financial institutions to launch the Green Exchange, a commodities trading marketplace in which U.S.-based companies could buy and sell the right to emit carbon dioxide and other environmental pollutants.
For the first time in three decades, Congress has moved decisively to decrease America’s oil dependency by raising fuel economy standards for new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. to 35 miles per gallon on average.
What’s this? Liberal, tree-hugging, famously blond Ed Begley, Jr. praising a conservative Republican, acknowledging that pollution can’t always be avoided, and sporting dark brown hair? Has the star—along with his wife Rachelle Carson—of HGTV’s Living With Ed changed his colors from the green of the environmental movement? Don’t count on it.
Cogeneration plants are converting unused energy waste streams into usable power and could provide solutions to some of our energy woes.
