Natural Resources Defense Council quarterly journal. Covers a broad range of environmental issues. Some articles form current and back issues available on ...
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No revolution is deserving of the label if it doesn't provoke resistance from a threatened establishment. That’s why the backlash against Citi Bike -- the new bike-sharing program scheduled to put 6,000 bikes and 330 stations on New York City’s streets by the end of the month -- is a ...
Some of these chemicals are nasty: Cadmium , for example, is a carcinogen that has been found in breast cancer biopsies and shown to cause cancer cells to multiply in lab experiments. Metals are often used in mineral dyes, which give lipstick its pigment, and are also often found in s...
Everly Macario lost her 18-month old son, Simon, in 2004 after he contracted an antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus. It took an autopsy to determine the exact cause of his death; his lungs looked like Swiss cheese from the bacteria. When Macario was notified, she was bewilde...
: A lot of factors are conspiring to kill honeybees in alarmingly large numbers, according to a new U.S. government report. The culprits include “parasites and disease, genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure, as well as farming practices that don’t give bees a pesticide-free ...
Blue Mind/Wallace J. Nichols. Photo below by Terri Garland. More from OnEarth Today OnEarth : Mosquitoes Die Hard, Species Need Saving, Charlie the Tuna Probably Isn’t Today OnEarth : Weekend Reads: Condors at the Carnival, Persnickety Pupfish, and the Poison Cure Today OnEarth : Ligh...
Editor's note: Read a profile of Russ Kremer by award-winning food journalist and OnEarth contributor Barry Estabrook: "The New Pork Gospel ." I have a passion for pigs. It started back when I was five years-old, as I cared for the runt and orphaned pigs on our 220-acre family farm in...
Shannon Service at Food & Environment Reporting Network on Palau's plunder: The waters around Palau are infested with pirates, but the outlaws aren't after jewels and lone yachts, they're after fish -- specifically, tuna, which fetches a sweet price on the high seas. Everybody's after...
Anthes, author of the just-published Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts , called the FDA’s extension of the comment period on its environmental assessment (the original deadline was back in February) “just one more delay in a process that’s dragged on far to...
