Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Rising Asthma Risks
Asthma has increasingly become a major health problem across the U.S. and studies show that climate change is going to make it worse…
E Word: Explore Environmental Challenges & Solutions
It’s in There
Up to 80% of All Processed Foods in the U.S. Are Made With Genetically Modified Organisms.You can’t tell if your bag of potato chips or box of cereal contains genetically modified ingredients based on the label, but chances are it does. Up to 80% of all processed foods in the U.S. are made with GMOs […]
Biking Together
Biking Is a Feasible Mode of Transportation for Just About AnyoneHave you given up on biking because it’s just not convenient enough as a working mom or dad, or you fear for your life pedaling alongside busy streets? Or maybe you’d like to bring your bike to work, but the train you commute on won’t […]
Safe for Consumption?
comprehensive information about which particular foods contain nanoparticles is hard to come by
Not Keeping Quiet
Rachel Carson’s Message Is More Urgent than EverHas it really been half a century since Rachel Carson gave us Silent Spring and made sure that moving forward we could no longer claim ignorance when it came to chemicals? The country girl who grew up outside of heavily polluted Pittsburgh, became a marine biologist and went […]
Voter Beware
Green Issues Have Taken a Back Seat in This Year’s Election—and They Couldn’t Be More CriticalDepending on the year and the current state of the country’s mood swing, the environment may or may not be a major talking point in a presidential election. This year appears to be one where green issues have taken a […]
Under the Sea
What goes into the air goes into the oceans and the great watery expanse that covers some 71% of the Earth’s surface is beginning to turn corrosive to sea life…
Weather Out of Whack
In past years, climate change has been relatively easy for deniers to deny. Most people don’t live alongside glaciers and polar bears, and those long-term projections of impacts—50 years, 100 years—seemed, if not comfortably far off, at least far off enough that they didn’t induce panic. In the national conversation, climate change was soundly trumped […]
Whale Watcher
There are few people who approach life with the singular conviction of Paul Watson. His life’s mission is no less than to rescue the endangered creatures of the sea from those who would do them harm. Certain threats to whales, dolphins and predator fish are too large in scope for one man to tackle: like […]
Drill Happy
“Fracking” for Natural Gas Is Not a Good Transitional Fuel to Renewables There are many reasons why you wouldn’t want companies extracting natural gas by hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) near your home. As Pennsylvania residents unlucky enough to have drilling operations open shop next door so poignantly describe in this issue, it means living with […]