Kellogg recalled 28 million packages of cereal while claiming there was "no harmful material" in them. The FDA knows nothing, has seen nothing and heard nothing, because for decades its mandate has been the protection of commerce, not people. Read More...
Allocating water between drier Botswana and water-rich areas of South Africa is leading to a new concept of water allocation: "virtual water." Is this just a convenient fiction or a useful construct? Read More...
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...
Insulation, sealing and ventilation can sound like boring subjects, but they’re not boring if you’re living in a house that doesn’t have them. Anybody who could tell Mary Ebbets how to solve the problems with her new house would have certainly had her and her husband’s attention, especially when their new house was being... Read More...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
