US President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off of Virginia and is considering opening up significant additional stretches along the Atlantic and Alaskan coasts in a reversal on a formal ban on drilling. The plan offers but few concessions to environmentalists, who have been vociferous in their opposition to more oil platforms [...]
Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now it has come to issuing death sentences to chronic offenders. A California sea lion last week became the first salmon predator to be euthanized [...]
Mountains of salt are spread on snowy roads in North America every winter, despite the fact that environmentalists have been warning against it for years. Well, studies are piling up, indicating indeed that the cost may be too high. Martin Mittelstaedt reports in the Globe and Mail about a new study of Frenchman’s Bay, a [...]
The British novelist Ian McEwan, inspired by the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, changed the finished manuscript of his new book about a scientist working on a technology to address global warming. The end of the book is set in summer 2009, and McEwan introduced a new scene, in the last few pages, in [...]
Victims of Hurricane Katrina are moving to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the tragic 2005 storm. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains during the storm, was first filed just weeks after Katrina hit in August of [...]
Using moisturizers and lotions made from natural plant-based in the stead of petroleum-based ingredients, is not only healthier for you, it also keeps non-renewable resources out of your medicine cabinet. That’s huge! Many lotions include ingredients which are derived from non-renewable petroleum or natural gas which have a wide assortment of health effects. 12 types [...]
First, man-kind was bedazzled to walk on the moon. Now, we could be flying on the sun; on the sun’s energy, that is. Think I’m crazy? Well, let me explain: It simply does not make reasonable business sense, physics sense, or otherwise, to try and fly an airplane on solar power. Not yet, anyhow. With [...]
The European Union is probably the most progressive bloc of countries in the world when it comes to green policies, trumping the United States in many areas like climate legislation and restrictions on toxic chemicals. So why is an American attorney seeking to bring lawsuits against the bloc and its member states for environmental shortcomings? [...]
February 28, 2010 – 7:33 pm
In the weeks ahead, it is likely that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will publish a recommendation that all infant boys undergo circumcision. But is it a mistake? Some feel that circumcision is an unnecessary procedure that is painful and can lead to complications. The [...]
February 28, 2010 – 11:40 am
A veteran SeaWorld trainer was leisurely rubbing Tilikum the killer whale from a poolside platform when the 12,000-pound creature shot up, grabbed her ponytail in its mouth and dragged her down underwater. Horrified visitors who had stuck around after a noontime show watched the animal charge through the pool with the trainer in its jaws. [...]
