Does nitrogen-enriched gasoline create additional pollution?
Since nitrogen oxide compounds are components of smog and are common water pollutants, does nitrogen-enriched gasoline create additional pollution?
EarthTalk Q&A
Does Human Population Impact Migratory Birds’ Routing?
How does growing human population, and its resultant landscape changes, affect the flight paths of migratory birds that might carry diseases?
Are there any conservation efforts focused on animal species endemic
Are there any conservation efforts focused on animal species endemic
I recently got my car detailed at a local place and then gasped at the chemical fumes
Traditionally, auto detailing has employed a range of not-so-green-friendly products such as ammonia, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nonphenolethoxolates (NPEs), abrasive detergents, and chemical-based leather, vinyl, fabric and carpet treatments. Inside the car, they can off-gas harsh airborne pollutants; when washed down storm drains they can wreak havoc on public water supplies.
Years ago I read that children should be kept at least two feet from the television
Luckily for many of us and our kids, sitting “too” close to the TV isn”t known to cause any human health issues. This myth prevails because back in the 1960s General Electric sold some new-fangled color
What”s better for the local ecology, sewers or septic tanks?
Most people, given a choice, prefer to be on a municipal sewer system, as the burden of keeping it running smoothly falls on the local government. Proponents of septic systems, however, say that a professionally designed, installed and maintained system should perform just fine.
I am very concerned about the amount of chlorine in my tap water
Thousands of American municipalities add chlorine to their drinking water to get rid of microbes. But this inexpensive and highly effective disinfectant has a dark side. “Chlorine, added as an inexpensive and effective drinking water disinfectant, is also a known poison to the body,”
I”ve read that human breast milk contains toxins from pollution
When we nurse our babies we feed them minuscule amounts of the same chemicals and volatile organic compounds we are exposed to every day ourselves
I”ve been following reports about President Obama”s stimulus package
Even though the push to create green jobs is getting the lion”s share of business news headlines right now, almost $7 billion of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, the stimulus bill President Obama signed into law earlier this year, has been allocated to help businesses reduce their environmental footprints in any number of ways.
What is the story with West Coast salmon runs?
A spawning Coho Salmon in Washington State. Cohos returned to spawn in Oregon and Washington in abundant numbers this year, but others, like California”s Sacramento River Chinooks and British Columbia”s Fraser River Sockeyes returned in near-record low numbers. Experts say reasons for the decline include diversions of river water for farming, pollution, the intermingling of wild salmon with weaker, disease-ridden hatchery fish, and global warming - which creates some problems and exacerbates others.Dan Bennett, courtesy Flickr