A steep decline in birds, butterflies and native plants in Britain supports the theory that humans are pushing the natural world into the Earth’s sixth bigextinction event and the future may see more and more animal species disappearing.
The Environmental Protection Agency reported last week that it has taken Love Canal off its Superfund list, declaring clean-up work in the area complete. The contamination of soil and groundwater in the Niagara Falls, New York neighborhood spurred Congress in 1980 to pass its landmark Superfund legislation mandating clean-up of industrial pollution sites across the U.S.
The politics of paper are not as simple as they seem. E’s forthcoming May/June cover story is all about paper: how it’s produced, how it gets recycled and non-wood alternatives. But the more I looked into the paper issue, the more complicated it became.
For the last two weeks I’ve been touring the Pacific Northwest and northern California in support of E’s new book: Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change (Routledge). It’s safe to say that audiences here (ranging from 12 people to more than 100) are receptive to our message that global warming is no longer a matter for scientific debate, but an observable fact.
While it's undoubtedly important to know who J.Lo's dating since Ben, and everyone wants to know about the latest fabulous party attended by the Hilton sisters, you'd think the news media could spare at least a few column inches for information on a recently uncovered Pentagon report predicting widespread nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine, rioting and a plunging of Great Britain's temperatures into something resembling Siberia. Why? Because global warming is real.
The University of Queensland's Centre for Marine Studies is predicting that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will lose 95 percent or more of its living coral by mid-century as a result of global warming.
If the U.S. is to participate at the first meeting for an historic international treaty to ban or severely restrict a dozen of the world’s most hazardous chemicals, Congress must pass legislation enabling it to do so within the next several weeks.
Grist Magazine reports that most mainstream environmentalists are opposed to the recently announced presidential bid by Ralph Nader, citing his spoiler role in the 2000 election as well as the overwhelming priority of unseating George W. Bush in 2004.
A recently uncovered Pentagon report warns that over the next 20 years climate change could lead to nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting across the world. The report was released internally four months ago, but was leaked to the media only last week.
Despite outcries about deficits, Congress is debating a massive $318 billion highway bill. This is the same Congress that routinely attempts to defund Amtrak, which has absorbed a tiny fraction of road spending. Congress wouldn’t even think of passing such a budget buster in an election year were it not for the enormous highway construction contracts that land like fat golden goose eggs in lawmakers" districts.
