Querido DiálogoEcológico: Varios accidentes trágicos recientes han puesto en relieve los peligros mortales de las minas para los mineros. ¿Cuáles son los problemas ecológicos inherentes en la minería, incluyendo su impacto a largo plazo y para la salud pública y de los mineros?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué es lo que mató todas las aves y fauna marinas de la Costa Oeste de los Estados Unidos el verano pasado?
Environmentalists were disappointed last week when a White House visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao yielded little if any substantive discussion about one of the world’s top hot button issues: energy use. After all, the U.S. remains the world’s top energy consumer, but China is coming on strong with its recent development push.
While the Chinese government has never been known for its environmental consideration, a new city springing up there on an island in the mouth of the Yangtze River may start to change all of that. Bulldozers have already broken ground on Chongming, where China is constructing an earth-friendly city from scratch catering to the overflowing masses from nearby Shanghai as well as those displaced by the massive and ongoing Three Gorges dam project.
Three of this year’s winners of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize (awarded April 24) are focused on combating global warming by saving the world’s fast-diminishing rainforests.
These days, I’ve found love in the bounty of the seasons. Fresh corn snapped from the stalk
dark baby kale, nipped by winter frosts
raspberries in the morning sun, plucked right from the vine…new potatoes, freshly unearthed, coddled with a bit of butter
snow peas so pale in the early spring light they break your heart.
Pedal-powered “pedicabs” are pollution free and a positive alternative to regular taxicabs for short-distance urban travel, but they aren’t always welcomed with open arms.
All the hype about New Zealand being clean and green: is it exaggerated? New Zealand is touted internationally as one of the most breathtaking places to visit and a conservation leader. But the truth, say the country’s environmental leaders,
Although traditional corn-based ethanol has a loyal constituency in farm states, support for bio-ethanol, also known as cellulosic ethanol, is growing.
Replacing dire warnings about fire and brimstone after death with a call for immediate action on global warming right here and now, 85 evangelical leaders proclaimed, "This is God’s world, and any damage that we do to God’s world is an offense against God himself." It was a jolt from President Bush’s own "base."
The marshlands on the Connecticut coast are alive with
parakeets? Yes, green monk parakeets from South America have found there way to more than a dozen states, and in some places they’ve run afoul of utility power lines.
