Emergency SOS from Captain Paul Watson: Save Our Ship! Report from the bridge of the Steve Irwin Photo: Bill Rankin I am writing to you from the ship, in Lerwick, Scotland: I need your help to free our flagship vessel, the Steve Irwin. On the afternoon of Friday, July 15, the Steve Ir...
Harlem's Carver Community Garden. Photo: Sarah Goodyear I emerged from the subway at 125th St. and Lexington Ave. into the most oppressive kind of urban summer scene. Heat billowed off the asphalt and concrete. Exhaust fumes stung my eyes and throat. Car engines roared. Horns blared. ...
Rupert Murdoch. Photo: World Economic Forum There have been countless independent investigations into the scientists whose emails were hacked in November 2009. And the scientists have been (quietly) vindicated every time . But we still don't know who hacked the emails! And now we know...
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has stated that the airline changed its policy as a result of talks with them regarding the flying of primates for research, an issue that is the focus of their Cargo Cruelty campaign. “”We welcome the action taken by American ...
After years of rumors , speculation , and hilarious hoaxes , it appears that the gears are finally turning for a bonafide live action film based on “Captain Planet and the Planeteers”. This rather unbelievable news comes courtesy of a press release announcing that Cartoon Network has ...
Photo: Amanda Westmont Cross-posted from Food Safety News . Last week, as health advocates around the nation raced against a deadline to submit comments to the federal government on food marketing to children, the food industry was busy doing what it does best: launching a massive PR ...
Scholarship recipients must be from low-income households, with income levels near or below twice the federal poverty line as determined by the United States government. Prior to final determination of award, selected applicants must provide further financial documentation demonstrati...
Decline in top predators and megafauna 'humankind’s most pervasive influence on nature' (07/14/2011) Worldwide wolf populations have dropped around 99 percent from historic populations. Lion populations have fallen from 450,000 to 20,000 in 50 years. Three subspecies of tiger went ext...
A few years ago, the only people who came in to Alliance Recycling in Emeryville, California were were pushing shopping carts. Now, the same center is seeing people pull up in late model cars. “Since the economy burst,” Jay Anast of Alliance told KQED , “we’ve seen more of your middle...
Andrew Spear for The New York Times A Norwegian spruce in Columbus, Ohio. Its owners said that it began to wither after Imprelis, an herbicide manufactured by Dupont, was applied to their lawn. A Pennsylvania homeowner and an Indiana golf course company have filed a class-action lawsu...
If the proposal goes through, Propublica reports that "the state would allow drilling near aqueducts but would require a site-specific environmental review for any application to drill within 1,000 feet of the water supply infrastructure." In other words, all that would stand between ...
The challenges described in this paper cannot be fixed as long as they remain unrecognized by the people that we elect to write and abolish legislation. Elaborate roadmaps to 2050 and lofty-sounding calls for emission targets in the mid-2020s will be as pointless and useless to future...
Do it for the economy. Photo: e20ci With House Republicans voting to decimate the USDA's various food programs by cutting over $2 billion, along comes The Economist with an excellent reminder of the effectiveness and scope of America's main anti-hunger program: food stamps. The piece ...
Never before has the U.S. government officially recognized that an entire species of tree is at risk of extinction due to climate change. Until today, that is. This morning, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will publish its decision which says that a listing of the Pinus albicaulis ...
Although the solar industry continues to grow, it still occupies only a tiny fraction of the overall energy mix. In the U.S. only 130,000 homes have solar arrays. What’s holding it up? Some blame the high cost of the technology. Others point at the see-saw nature of tax incentives. Pe...
Last week I was interviewed for a Fox Small Business Center article, the topic of which was sustainability management practices for small business owners. As we got into the heart of our conversation, it struck me that the approach small business owners should use for sustainability m...
has created the world’s first compostable swimsuit. Derived from plant starch, the two-piece made its debut at the HauteNatured swimwear show at Miami Swim Week on Friday. But don’t worry about the bathing suit dissolving while you’re wearing it. You have to bury it below ground befor...
Tea Party leaders in the House have dramatically stepped up their assault on America’s environmental and public health safeguards. Last week alone they used about 50 floor votes and more than 30 policy riders on spending bills to undermine the protections that keep our air safe, our w...
Arctic Blog: Tracking the Impact Of Oil Development on Wildlife By Steve Zack, Wildlife Conservation Society 19 Jul 2011 As my colleague Steve Kolbe drove us down a gravel road leading away from K-Pad in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay oilfields, I looked to the side and said, “Whoa, stop!” Ther...
By the end of this century, it's likely that at least a handful of island nations will find out what it means to become a "deterritorialized" state, writes Rosemary Rayfuse in the Times . When the last bit of Nauru , or Tuvalu, or Kiribati disappear under the waves, it will be a doubl...
[Editor's Note: This is the first post in an ongoing series from Albe Zakes, the Global Vice President of Media Relations at TerraCycle ; he is kicking off the series with an overview of how the company creates and continues its relationships to turn trash into new products.] One of t...
Lobbyists for the Business Roundtable and American Petroleum Institute deserve some form of twisted credit, I suppose. They are threatening the president and spitting on the law, but at least they are open about it. Officials for these groups and a few other industry associations are ...
The anti-gay-marriage pledge being pushed by an influential Iowa conservative has made headlines this month for splintering the field of GOP presidential candidates by harkening back to the good ol' family-friendly days of slavery. We haven't heard as much about the pledge's call for ...
About two months ago, Joel Makower made the claim that "green marketing is over." Makower believes green marketing as we know it has failed us -- the great consumer revolution simply hasn't materialized, and sustainable products continue to limp along as niche players. All this, despi...
This is a guest post from our friend Christine Shear, a wonderful researcher and writer who has published a new book on the climate crisis, Kivalina: A Climate Change Story (Haymarket Books, 2011). The communities we are already losing to climate change in Alaska By Christine Shearer ...
In late July 2011, the Missouri River remained flooded along the eastern borders of Nebraska and Kansas, and flooding extended eastward into Missouri. The flooding lingered in the wake of the highest single month of runoff yet recorded for the Missouri River Basin, occurring in June 2...
While trying to cross an intersection in Marietta, Georgia, in April of 2010, Raquel Nelson and her three children were hit by Jerry L. Guy, who would later confess to having consumed a “little” alcohol earlier in the day. Nelson’s 4-year-old son was struck by Guy’s vehicle and died f...
Photo: James Mullineaux / Istock related articles By Dan Shapley Over the past couple of years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been tightening the rules contractors must follow to avoid spreading lead-tainted dust during home renovation projects. The rules are also useful gui...
The National Wildlife Federation joined with a coalition of public health, faith, and conservation groups today to deliver more than 617,000 letters from Americans supporting strong mercury safeguards to the Environmental Protection Agency Region One office in Boston. These comments, ...
Chartered psychologist Paul Russell from The University of Bolton says that being active and exercising is one of the most natural and effective ways of managing stress. ‘Exercising is not about running the Marathon des Sabes [a 150 mile run across the desert],’ he says. ‘It’s about w...
