A new study recently released by the non-profit National Audubon Society found that since 1967, the average population of many common bird species has fallen by 68 percent, with some individual species declining as much as 80 percent.
Google Inc., the California-based Internet monolith, announced last week that it is pledging a cool $10 million of its profits to help spur the development of plug-in hybrid cars.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Existe prueba de los vínculos entre el cáncer del seno y las sustancias químicas en el medioambiente? ¿O es que los investigadores creen que la mayoría de estos cánceres son causados por factores genéticos?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es la población y situación actual de los grandes mamíferos africanos, tales como elefantes, leones, rinocerontes, e hipopotamos? ¿Están todos ellos enfilados a la extinción?
Prices rose sharply in the early days of the summer driving season. The national average for a gallon of regular grade gasoline on May 21 was $3.22, up 11 cents from the week before. The Center for American Progress report explains that these prices will restrict family vacations, send middle-income families digging deeper into their savings and keep consumers away from restaurants and shopping venues.
All car seats are not created equal. While parents fret over the toxins in plastic toys and teething rings they now have to consider what chemicals may be lurking in their car seat. The Michigan-based Ecology Center released a study in mid-May that looks at the hazards in more than 60 popular models of infant, convertible and child booster car seats.
Despite a proposed $12 million funding increase by the Bush administration earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is still going to cut way back on services and operations at more than 500 national wildlife refuges across the country due to a mammoth $2.5 billion unfunded maintenance and operations backlog.
E has consistently warned about dangerous ingredients in commercial pet foods. Now people are paying attention, following disclosures last March that at least 16 pets died from poisoned food containing highly suspect ingredients imported from China. Some 60 million pet food servings, sold under many different brand names, were recalled.
The majority of egg operations in the U.S. subject hens to stacked, battery cages, too small for them to even flap their wings. But consumer momentum is building for cage-free eggs, which offer a better life for hens, but one that’s still not as cruelty-free as organic operations.
A conservation project in Mexico City is trying to transform an odd-looking salamander into a "spokes-animal" for a threatened habitat. The axolotl is in danger of extinction in its native environment, but an effort to revive a green space in the city may help to improve its prospects.
While international relief agencies struggle to protect people displaced by ware, drought and civil unrest, they often neglect the environmental devastation that follows in the world’s overcrowded refugee camps.
