According to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Species Survival Plan (SSP) programs have helped bring several endangered species back from the brink, including black-footed ferrets, California condors and red wolves, like the one pictured here.
A sonar device being lowered into the ocean by an anti-submarine squadron helicopter. Such devices generate slow-rolling sound waves topping out at around 235 decibels; the world
s loudest rock bands top out at only 130.
Some 85 percent of fur now comes from animals raised on farms, though opponents say that animals live in terrible conditions and are killed inhumanely. Mink and foxes are the two most-farmed wild animals used for furs. Others include chinchilla, lynx, muskrats and coyotes.
Nanotechnology makes use of minuscule objects—whose width can be 10,000 times narrower than a human hair—known as nanoparticles. Upwards of 600 products on store shelves today contain them, including transparent sunscreen, lipsticks, anti-aging creams and even food products.
Has anyone been tracking whether climate change is causing more loss of human life as it gets more pronounced?
Is it true that the loss of the world’s peatlands is a major factor in the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. If so, what can be done about it?
Influential groups like the Alaska Outdoor Council say that wolf populations need culling because subsistence hunters rely on moose and caribou to feed their families.
Letter carriers may have bad weather and biting dogs to deal with, but back at the mail sorting facilities, postal workers often face one of the byproducts of the increased mechanization of sorting facilities: paper dust, which can trigger asthma,
Environmentalists” call for an end to the age of coal—one of the dirtiest and most common of all the fossil fuels we now use—took on new urgency this past December when some 525 million gallons of wet coal ash, enough toxic slurry to flood more than 3,000 acres of nearby land,
The experts prefer galvanized steel, copper and aluminum gutters for longer life and therefore lower environmental as well as financial cost. Stay away from PVC (polyvinyl chloride), which is hazardous to human health and the environment.
