Haze not only contributes to environmental damage, it also hinders our enjoyment of mountain views. The Environmental Protection Agency, however, has been dragging its feet in cleaning up the haze in parks and other protected areas.
<p>Posing as movers, activists entered the office with moving boxes full of recycled toilet and tissue paper and urged the staff to sign a document calling on the company to stop destroying one of North America’s wildest forests.</p>
Plastic bags don't biodegrade, they photodegrade--breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingest.
There is not a drop of water to be seen around the port of Aralsk -- a silent testament to decades of Soviet experiments with nature that have turned the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, into a salt-encrusted desert.
Illegal logging is destroying the world's ancient forests and accelerating climate change. On July 23rd the European Commission is expected to vote on proposed legislation to combat illegal logging.Please write to President Barroso today for a yes vote.
Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique 'fynbos' vegetation, has been presented to the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment.
Gasoline prices have reached $4 per gallon in the US . And now they are saying we may see $6 per gallon by summer's end. Some analysts are saying gasoline prices will eventually reach $12 to $15 per gallon.
What is going on?
Nobody doubts that Lake Titicaca, a watershed and resource shared by Bolivia and Peru, is polluted. But a half-century after the two governments realised there was a problem there are still no detailed studies of the state of its waters.
Imperial Oil Ltd again has all the approvals it needs to go ahead with its C$8 billion (US$7.8 billion) Kearl oil sands project after Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) reinstated its authorization, revoked in March during a legal battle.
TOKYO - The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.
