Environment

New website, Earth Vision, presents spiritual ecology

By Josef Graf · 18 years ago

The Earth Vision website presents spiritual ecology as a means of highlighting the nature-human relationship. In a bid to take readers to a deeper place with nature, the Earth Vision project diverges from the voice ...

Uses for Lead Shot

By Rob Parker · 18 years ago

As the heaviest of the pure elements, lead has been found to have many practical applications in the health industry as well as research oriented industries. These applications may find lead used in military as ...

Jute is the most eco friendly fibre

By Chris M · 18 years ago

Jute is the second most important vegetable fibre after cotton; not only for cultivation, but also for various uses. Jute is used chiefly to make cloth for wrapping bales of raw cotton, and to make ...

CARB Planning to Reduce NOx Emissions from Diesel Trucks

By Jim D'arezzo · 18 years ago

A recent editorial in the San Jose Mercury News focused on the pollution from diesel engines and the effect this is having on California's air quality. "When it comes to air pollution from vehicles, it ...

Organic Cotton

By Francesca Black · 18 years ago

Although many people are becoming conscious about what they put in their bodies, they do not take necessary precautions for what they put on their bodies. Pesticides and other chemicals can not only damage our ...

Facts Everyone Should Know About the Bald Eagle

By Ryan Orlancia · 18 years ago

Did you know that the United States adopted the bald eagle as the national bird and symbol of the nation in 1782? Because the Sea Eagle was so common in Europe at the time, settlers ...

Toxins in Your Everyday Environment

By Kevin Tejada · 18 years ago

Environmental Toxins If you could wake up one morning, discard your normal working attire, and don a mobile suit of sophisticated detectors and microarrays that enable you to accurately measure toxins in your everyday environment, ...

Endangered Animals of Peru

By Laurel Thompson · 18 years ago

Animals are considered endangered when they are at risk of extinction, either because there are only a small number of them left, due to threats from changes to their environment, shifting of predator to prey ...

Alternative energy sources up in the sky

By Cristian Ignat · 18 years ago

Considering the danger represented by the climate changes and the global warming phenomena scientists and businessmen worldwide started to look for alternative energy sources. Besides the wind power or the nuclear energy is has been ...

Wild Animal Endangerment

By Emma Snow · 18 years ago

Wild animals are beautiful creatures with varying sizes, colors, and habitats. Although some can be seen in zoos, the place they are meant to be is in their own environment. Unfortunately, animals such as whales, ...

Recycling plastic and glass – why it makes a difference

By David Mcevoy · 18 years ago

With a little understanding of the issues involved, we can re-use or recycle most of the masses amount of waste we produce from plastic and glass and at the same time we can reduce costs, ...

Daintree

By Medha Ruby · 18 years ago

Daintree – and the surrounding area otherwise known as the Daintree Rainforest - is named after the pioneering British geologist in North Queensland – Richard Daintree. It is located about 111 kilometres from Cairns and ...

Earth Day Every Day

By Grace Durfee · 18 years ago

Each Spring, my family and I participate in a town-wide Earth Day clean-up effort. We don heavy gardening gloves and set out with buckets and trash bags to clean up a nearby portion of state ...

Would our oceans be better off without sharks or is it another shark tale?

By Sylvie Leochko · 18 years ago

For someone who fears sharks or whose life is affected by Selachophobia (uncontrollable fear of sharks), the idea of fishing sharks into extinction may seem like a good idea. On the other hand, marine biologists ...