Oceans: The Perils of Plastic Part 2
Plastics are ubiquitous — raw materials, packaging and post-consumer waste are spewing into streams, rivers, oceans, and landfills around the world. Look down at your feet in parking lots, shopping […]
Category Archives: Toxics
Chernobyl at 30
Today is Chernobyl ‘s 30th anniversary– and the impacts of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster (yes, they say, worse than Fukushima in 2011) are still being felt in […]
Monarchs: Save Them, Says NRDC
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking on Dow Chemicals –– and Monsanto too– to stop the toxic herbicides that threaten Monarch butterflies with extinction. A full-page ad in […]
Earth Week Heroes 2014: Dirt is Good!
It took an army of students and volunteers, thousands of bags, and travel to all of the lower 48 states, but the mission is, more or less, complete. “It” is […]
Earth Week Heroes: Osprey Thriving in Wash DC
This is a success story that involves two continents, youths in troubled neighborhoods, a raft of community volunteers, good science and a cleaned up river in Washington DC. But it […]
Roundup: Tsunami Trash, Traffic, Cats, Birds, Culture
Feb 15-18: Count Birds, It’s Free: Wherever you are worldwide, you can participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) if you have Internet access. You just need to watch birds […]
Books Galore: Heroes & Heroines
The Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Dickens’s bicentennial, the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. All these are reason enough for updated biographies, groundbreaking research and new works that interpret history and […]
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: 50th Anniversary
Rachel Carson’s landmark book Silent Spring marks its 50th anniversary this year with the new biography On a Farther Shore : The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder, (Crown, 512 […]
