Currents

One nonprofit pushes to require the words “Artificially Colored” on the front of food labels.

The EPA releases a study showing Wyoming well water has been contaminated with many toxic fracking chemicals.

Our Collective Energy Use Has a Lot to do with Our Purchases Americans today are generally aware that we consume far more energy per capita than most of the world’s peoples, over four times the world average and double that of regions like Japan and Europe which enjoy a similar standard of living. Most of […]

Patagonia Bucks the Trend of Encouraging Consumers to Shop, Shop, Shop Having not broken my obsession with the print version of The New York Times, I was thrilled to greet the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping spree known as Black Friday by opening to a full-page ad from Patagonia that urged readers “Don’t Buy This Jacket.” To the […]

New York’s law mandating the recycling of rechargeable batteries is now in effect.

A fly fisherman discovers oil in his hallowed Sand Creek in Colorado. A ruptured Suncor Energy pipe is to blame.

The Sumatran Tiger is seriously threatened due to deforestation from paper and palm oil production. A new study finds that unless the Indonesian government acts quickly to protect native tigers, there is little hope of reversing the trend. On November 2, the Public Library of Science published the first-ever Sumatran-wide survey of the island’s top […]

Can We Find Another Word for Green?I know it’s completely off base as an environmental writer and editor, but I’ve really grown tired of “green” as a synonym for “environmental.” It would be fine if used on occasion, perhaps when writing about organic summer cocktails or BPA-free beach toys. But in general, it’s too cutesy […]

The tiny quagga mussel is multiplying like mad and wreaking havoc on Great Lakes fisheries.