Nonprofit environmental groups say that populations of pronghorn antelope, mule deer, elk and sage grouse are already starting to suffer as a result of the federal government doubling the amount of drilling allowed on federal lands across Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Colorado and New Mexico over the past decade.
Two summers ago, I hiked from my front porch in Missoula, Montana to Waterton, Alberta. During this eight-week, 800-mile backpack trip, I traveled through some of the wildest, most unique and precious country left in the United States, providing the last strongholds for rare, threatened and endangered species. But even here, in such remote places, I witnessed evidence of what scientists and wildlife biologists have been warning us about for years.
Did Exxon/Mobil really pay scientists and economists to write articles trying to debunk global warming? That’s disgusting…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg used the occasion of Earth Day to unveil 127 new environmental initiatives aimed at greening Gotham over the next two decades. With the city likely to take on an additional million residents by 2030—up from 8.2 million now—Bloomberg thinks that addressing environmental issues now may be the only way to deal with the inevitable future strain on infrastructure and natural resources.
This year’s recipients of the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize include a Vietnam vet fighting Pentagon nerve gas incineration, a champion of native forest dwellers terrorized in Liberia’s civil war, a researcher whose reports are helping China reconsider the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of dam construction, and an activist who helped stem the tide of illegal logging to establish the world’s largest area of protected tropical forest in northern Brazil.
Deirdre Imus (not to be confused with the Imus she’s married to) may not do her own house cleaning, but she knows the chemical makeup of name-brand cleaning products and the environmental and public health dangers they can cause. And her new book: Green This! Volume One: Greening Your Cleaning (Simon and Schuster, $15.95), is a readable, practical how-to book on ridding your home of toxins.
Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retail chain, announced last week that it will soon label thousands of items in its U.S. stores as "Eco Options," or environmentally friendly, to help consumers concerned about their ecological footprints.
Tens of thousands of Americans participated in the nationwide Step It Up 2007 rally on April 14 to draw attention to the issue of global warming and to urge Congress to take strong action to curb the emission of greenhouse gases. The campaign’s mantra: get Congress to cut emissions of the chief greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, 80 percent by 2050.
We know more about animal emotions then we often admit, and we can no longer ignore the pain and suffering of other beings. Many people in higher education are faced with difficult questions about the use of animals in their classrooms and research laboratories and we must accept that there are compelling reasons stemming from scientific research to limit and perhaps stop using animals in lieu of the numerous highly effective non-animal alternatives that are readily available.
Grand Lake, in the Colorado Rockies, lies in the path of an assault on forests across much of the western U.S. and Canada. As a result of drought, warmer temperatures and an abundance of mature growth, the trees that carpet the slopes over millions of acres are falling victim to unprecedented levels of infestation by the mountain pine beetle.
