Local Ecology | ||
Pollution Culture | ||
While the citizens want clean water, City and County actions suggest a culture of indifference to persistent water pollution. | ||
Crusading for wild steelhead, the San Diego River and Rose Canyon Creek | ||
Ignoring the needs of nature in favor of roughshod land development has forced southern steelhead and many other native species to the vanishing point. | ||
Neighborhoods, public facilities and planning | ||
Uncontrolled, unplanned, haphazard infill has left a legacy of deficient parks, lack of schools and general deterioration with increased social problems and crime. | ||
National Issues | ||
Climate change could cause major changes in US ecosystems | ||
Global warming may well disrupt the integrity of many of the terrestrial ecosystems on which we depend ecosystems that provide humans such valuable goods and services as foods, raw materials, recreational opportunities, clean air and water, and erosion control. | ||
Global Ecology | ||
International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY) launched to raise biodiversity awareness | ||
Pollution and Waste | ||
The hidden freshwater crisis | ||
Brewing a future | ||
A southern African brewery spawns a chicken farm, a fish farm, a mushroom plantation, a Spirulina plantation, an earthworm farm, jobs, and hope. | ||
EPA dramatically reduces pollution from heavy-duty trucks and buses; cuts sulfur levels in diesel fuel | ||
Carbon cycling and species composition: Seeing the forest for its trees | ||
Mexico's pollution release and transfer registry: Long road yet to go | ||
Wetlands system recycles building's wastewater | ||
Halford House believes wastewater is too precious to dump down the drain. So House, a NC State University water quality specialist, has created North Carolina's first and only self-contained wastewater treatment system for an office building. | ||
Aiborne nitrogen contributes pollution to US estuaries | ||
Diet & Health | ||
Global warming may pose risks to human health | ||
Energy | ||
Aluminum-Power's fuel cell performance exceeds all conventional batteries | ||
The western electricity and natural gas crisis | ||
Observations from the Edge | ||
Resolutions for a Sustainable Future |