President Obama signed a new toxic chemical law which is the first major overhaul in 40 years. This is a great step towards cancer prevention and protection of our health and environment. It has been too long in coming. Congress spent more than three years working on the bill, which rewrites the 1976 Toxic…
If you missed the beginning portion of this article, Check out part one in our Healthy Environment section. As I explained in the previous article, while you might not readily be able to get an opossum, do not chase them away if you are lucky enough to have one show up. Opossums are hugely beneficial. As…
There are only Three remaining Addax in existence source: IUCN – Saharan Addax antelope faces imminent extinction
Operating at a depth of approximately eleven thousand feet (2.3 miles), an ROV (remote operated vehicle) controlled by NOAA’s ship the Okeanos Explorer was able to document a previously undiscovered jellyfish species. The Okeanos Explorer is a 224 foot exploratory research vessel with a crew of 46, including mission support, holding multiple ROV’s. The Okeanos Explorer’s latest mission takes place in the Western Pacific; a four…
Townsville’s Reef HQ turtle hospital may be hosting Australia’s first recorded hybrid sea turtle. The animal, nicknamed Summer, appears to be a cross between a hawksbill turtle and a green sea turtle. The Reef HQ’s director, Fred Nucifora, said hybrids were extremely rare and there had not been a recorded instance of a hybrid anywhere…
On more than one occasion I’ve been confronted by the question: “How can you cut down a live tree for a Christmas decoration? I thought you cared about the environment.” There is an ongoing discussion about whether or not to use artificial trees or real trees as Christmas decorations, and what if any are the…
Today Royal Dutch Shell announced the cessation of exploratory drilling in the arctic waters off of Alaska’s coast, in the Chukchi Sea. Environmentalists and Conservationists around the world were celebrating as news traveled across the twitterverse: Reasons for the withdrawal are largely being credited to strong public opposition to the arctic drilling while others believe Shell…
Source: Ban on microbeads offers best chance to protect oceans, aquatic species
From Facebook, the photo quickly flowed to other social and viral news media sites. For the polar bear to survive in the wild, the Arctic must remain extremely cold and largely covered in ice year-round. Unless nations slash burning of coal and oil for energy in the next few decades, scientists believe, Arctic summer sea…
Pollution, industrial fishing and climate change have killed off half of marine life in the last four decades, according to a WWF report released on Wednesday. “In the space of a single generation, human activity has severely damaged the ocean by catching fish faster than they can reproduce,” Marco Lambertini, head of WWF International, said…
