Coast Guard Floats Rule on Invasive Species
The U.S. Coast Guard has proposed regulation to prevent invasive species from entering U.S. waters. The rule would require ships to treat ballast water, which is pumped into tanks when leaving port and typically dumped at the incoming port, to kill microorganisms and larvae that come along for the [...]
Kenya, one of the world’s most popular and exotic wildlife ecosystems, has all but been decimated by loss of forest cover in recent history, severely threatening the health of the land, its people and once powerfully robust wildlife.
To address the country’s massive losses in forest cover, Kenyan communities will plant 7.6 billion trees over the [...]
Global population numbers are on track to reach 7 billion in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999. Virtually all of the growth is in developing countries. And the growth of the world’s youth population (ages 15 to 24) is shifting into the poorest of those countries.
The Population Reference Bureau’s 2009 World [...]
Some people who are serious about wanting to reduce their “carbon footprint” on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large, long-term benefit: Â have one less child.
A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an [...]
Film Review by Lisa Rosen
The title alone conjures up a biblical vision of tranquil harmony. Nature at its most pure and innocent. The first images of “The Garden†may be more prosaic, but they nonetheless support that idea. A man, weathered by the years and by physical labor, wakes up before dawn and makes his [...]
Clean Up the World inspires communities to clean up, fix up and conserve their local environment through carrying out initiatives ranging from waste removal and tree planting to water and energy conservation projects. Clean Up the World is a global team of volunteers across every continent working together to ensure our environmental future. Clean Up [...]
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Green is lost. It is dazed and confused. Despite the good and noble intentions behind it, the attribution and its related movements generally have fallen short of any depth of meaning for sound environmental practice.
To have a “green†attitude or “green†position has become misleading and down right false to a very wide [...]
Amid the doom and gloom that often accompanies environmental reporting, one of the brightest, most hopeful prospects on the horizon concerns today’s youth and the importance they place on sustainable, ecological practices. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the colleges and universities they choose, and the pressure student groups have placed upon administrators [...]
A New Epoch in Earth’s Geophysical History: The Anthropocene Period
Einstein is often quoted as saying, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.†Perhaps this is the kind of paradigm shift he had in mind…
Just as changes to the Earth’s orbit, volcanic eruptions and asteroid [...]
