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Flora, Fauna and the Deep Blue Sea: Bermuda Works to Recreate its Natural Past

It is peaceful on Nonsuch Island, a 14-acre nature preserve at the eastern entrance to Bermuda’s Castle Harbor. Migratory songbirds flit through canopy trees, their calls disturbed only by the distant and distinctly incongruous whine from a motorcycle track on the mainland. With its Bermuda palmetto, olivewood and cedar forests, scuttling Sally Lightfoot crabs and nesting Bermuda petrel seabirds just offshore, the island represents a rare opportunity to experience Bermuda as its first visitors saw it.

Second-Class Transit? Los Angeles Bus Riders Union Fights for Equal Treatment

Although light rail trains are favored by many forward-thinking transportation agencies, buses carry far more commuters. The public transportation fleet in the U.S. consists of 129,000 vehicles; 58 percent of them are buses, and only one percent are light rail cars. Sixty-one percent of all public transportation employees work for bus services. Of the 8.7 […]

Clean Kills? Will Boston Harbor’s Once-Rich Fisheries be Ruined by a $5 Billion Sewage Plant?

Photo Network The coastal waters north of Boston have become markedly cleaner over the past decade, mostly because of the construction of sewage treatment plants in Lynn and Salem—but the outcome has lobstermen fuming. Although the sustainability of marine life in Massachusetts has been a recurring regional news story this year, Boston Harbor’s polluted waters […]

Saving the Chesapeake

WIC, A Federal Food Program, Gets Supplemental Common Sense.

Turf Wars: Swelling Human Populations Are Crowding Out Other Species

It’s not just in places like India or Zimbabwe that endangered plant and animal species are battling it out with growing numbers of people for the few remaining parcels of habitat. In the United States, too, population growth is the single greatest threat to endangered species. Each day huge tracts of land are being gobbled […]

Growing the Greens

Is There Life After 2000 for America’s Biggest Third Party? When Ralph Nader announced he would run for President in 2000, few people thought he would register very high on the political Richter scale. Now, in the wake of an election so close that some Gore supporters blame the Presidency of George W. Bush on […]

The World’s Water Crisis

The world is sharply divided in terms of access to safe hydration. Those who can afford it are guzzling ever-increasing numbers of designer water bottles, while half the world’s population lacks basic sanitation facilities, according to the United Nations (UN). Diseases caused by unsanitary water kill five to 12 million people a year, most of them women and children. A child dies every eight seconds from a preventable water-borne disease.

Ozone

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Even though it’s made of only three little molecules of oxygen, ozone can be a pretty big topic. Newspaper headlines are confusing: One day ozone is good, the next day it’s bad. In fact, both scenarios are true. Two types of ozone exist, stratospheric and tropospheric, and they differ […]

10 in Trouble

A comprehensive endangered species report is impossible in this limited space, so E chose to focus on 10 of the most seriously endangered. This isn’t a scientific selection, but a subjective appraisal of species that, we believe, can still be saved by a concerted global effort. This list has some overlap with the 25 species […]

Battling Blood Sugar

Environment and Diet are Factors in Rising Adult-Onset Diabetes Seventeen million Americans have diabetes, and the incidence of new cases has increased 32 percent since 1990, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People are being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. Experts are still searching for the cause, but most say […]

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