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The High Price of Wild Meat
Hungry refugees in East Africa are turning to chimps for protein.© Getty Images A new report from the wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic finds that hunting by hungry East African refugees is decimating populations of chimpanzees, buffaloes and zebra in Tanzania. More than half a million refugees from Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of […]
U.S. Lagging on Environment
A new analysis released by researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities found that the United States ranked 39th of 149 countries on the basis of overall environmental performance.
COMMENTARY: A Greener Superbowl
There could hardly be a better state to host a "green" Superbowl than Arizona, which needs to call attention to the very immediate realities of pollution and resource depletion and the importance of fast environmental action.
Semana del 27/01/2008
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es el impacto de toda la basura generada por la gente, en gran parte de sus coches en las carreteras? ¿Qué puedo hacer para ayudar a limpiarlo? ¿Cómo podemos reforzar las leyes para prevenirlo?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Mi tío trabajó más de una década en el último piso de un edificio de oficinas con torres de teléfonos celulares directamente sobre él. Lo diagnosticaron recientemente con cáncer. ¿Hay prueba científica de alguna correlación entre la exposición a la radiación de las torres de teléfonos celulares y el cáncer?
Semana del 20/01/2008
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Es verdad que los colchones y materiales de cama tradicionales pueden causar problemas ambientales y de salud, y si es así qué alternativas existen?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Mi culpabilidad acerca del calentamiento del planeta me está comenzando a molestar en forma intensa, y he oído que puedo comprar "compensaciones en carbón" para ayudar a rectificar la cosa ¿Cómo funciona eso?
Klamath River Dams Coming Down
Two years of closed-door negotiations between farmers, Indian tribes, fishermen, conservation groups and government agencies have resulted in an unprecedented (but very conditional) agreement to remove four hydroelectric dams now operating along an embattled 300-mile stretch of the Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California.
Cape Wind Gets the First Green Light
Backers of the Cape Wind project off the Massachusetts coast saw their stock rise last week when the Mineral Management Service (MMS), the federal agency charged with oversight of mining and related pursuits, gave a positive review to their plan to put 130 windmills across a 25-mile stretch of Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod.
COMMENTARY: Trash Talking
The Swiss have a sensible solution to garbage collection and recycling that is so, well, Swiss.
Bringing it Home
E first wrote about global warming in 1996. With this latest focus on "losing winter," we’re bringing the issue even closer to home.