The Mountains of Colorado could be in for a wetter-than-average winter this season.” Klaus Wolter, a CU-Boulder and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist predicts this. He further predicts that the mountains of Utah also will be…
When economic growth and environmental concerns clash, which one is to be chosen? True, such decisions are taken according to the individual country’s socio-economic and environmental contours. But at times, such situations toughens decision-making. So,..
Can you imagine your diet giving you a bit of pesticide everyday! Thinking of the consequences of the silent killer, it scares me. Since last year, thinking of the amount of chemicals that might be going into a kid, sales of organic baby food in the US…
A new policy, while on one hand plans to restrict off-road vehicles, on the other, the same plans may lead to legitimize hundreds of illegal trails carved out by off-road enthusiasts. It should create a balance to prevent its misusing. Environmentalists..
There are a lot to feel between the lines of every day’s flashing headlines on the New Orleans’ “toxic soup”. Every city throughout the United States is suffering its balefulness. The air, water and every breath of the habitants is poisoned by …
It was last year the voters seemed so overwhelmed with the a ballot measure that loosened some of the strictest zoning restrictions in America. They enthusiastically approved the ballot measures. But, shattering all dreams of the voters built on the…
Tourists flock on the beach to indulge themselves in sunbaths. This tranquility far from the maddening crowd attracts all. So, do the West African islands. They try to lure more sun-seekers. But, our such indulgence is snatching the loggerhead turtles’…
As climate change is claimed to have cleaned the earth of several species in the prehistoric era, it has the power even to increase dominant species, specially a wide range of parasitic insects. This resulting increase in the insects and the whipping up.
Vermont seems to have geared up to reduce greenhouse gases in a concrete way. It approved stricter standards for vehicle emissions, a major source of greenhouse gases. The standards led five other Northeastern states working on the same rules. All 2009…
Pacific right whales are in the brink of extinction. The mammals are the most endangered large whales in the world, with no more than 100 believed to exist, as the Reuters reported. With this concern, some of the world’s last right whales in the Bering…