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Chinese Wallboard, Toxic Spills, Deadly Gas: Watch Out! FAST-ACT Nanomaterial is Here!
A nanomaterial that will combine with and transform dozens of volatile toxic chemicals into harmless substances actually exists and is coming to a toxic release near you. Read this article and see the videos and hope it really works. Read More...
When Readers’ Comments are Wiser Than the Writer’s Column
This article wonders why Oklahoma doesn't want to sell its water to Texas. Read the comments that follow the article, and see readers who know enough about the environment to say exactly why there's no "mystery;" just good environmental sense. Read More...
The Water Next Time: Water Wars in the Making
This story in the Times has all the elements of the potential water wars that threaten to break out across the world. Whether it's Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the Blue Nile or California, Arizona and Nevada over the Colorado. Read More...
Demapping a Highway; Restoring a Neighborhood
Demapping and dismantling the little used mile-and-a-quarter-long Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx would restore a neighborhood and create 13 open acres along the East River. Read More...
Restoring a Montana Spring Creek
This Op Ed piece in the New York Times describes a wonderful example of how restored natural water systems cab give back so much more than it takes to recreate them. Read More...
Gulf Dead Zone Created by Ethanol Production Upstream
The northern Gulf boasts the second biggest "dead zone" in the world, where the nitrite runoff from giant midwest corn and soybean farms travels down the Mississippi and generates huge algal blooms that use all the oxygen in the water and kill other aquatic life. Read More...
Water to Burn in the Desert
Fountains, golf links, green lawns and man-made snow is what the members of the United Arab Emirates are squandering their oil money on, leaving these small desert nations vulnerable to water problems. Read More...