EarthTalk Q&A

When the logging business began to die down in the Pacific Northwest beginning in the 1980s, timber companies started looking increasingly to the southeastern United States for the wood pulp it would need to satisfy the rapidly expanding global demand for paper.

Today’s common household batteries—those ubiquitous AAs, AAAs, Cs, Ds and 9-volts from Duracell, Energizer and others—are not thought to pose as great a threat to properly-equipped modern landfills as they used to because they contain much

Scientists remain puzzled over what caused such widespread loss of wildlife last summer on the Pacific coast between Northern California & BC.

What are the environmental issues with mining, including their long-term impact on both public and mine workers? Should we ban mining altogether?

Just because you haven’t heard much about the Amazon rainforest in the news lately doesn’t mean we have solved the many environmental problems there.

President Bush recently replaced Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who resigned, with Idaho governor Dirk Kempthorne. What was Norton’s environmental legacy and what can we expect from her successor?

Advocates of modern agriculture reliant on pesticides and widespread single crop plantings (known as “monoculture”) have bragged for decades about the increased productivity their high-tech methods can yield. Indeed, several studies in the U.S.