One of the most insidious pollutants in our environment is the heavy metal element Cadmium. An important new study is the first to report on the effects of Cadmium on human fetal sex organ tissues.
Margaret Hyde | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
No matter how large or small your home or your budget, here are some things you can do right now to make your home more sustainable.
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
I have been hearing reports that recycling is bad. That the costs of shipping, mostly the carbon emissions from them, counteract any benefit from recy...
Carole Carson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Imagine a community where fresh, seasonal, affordable, local fruit is easily accessible to everyone--from low-income families to fancy foodies. Instea...
wsj.com | DAVID OWEN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Congestion isn't an environmental problem; it's a driving problem. Traffic jams can actually be environmentally beneficial if they turn subways, buses...
Mark Morford | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Have you taken a peek lately into the eco nightmare that is Canada's monstrous, pollutive, disgusting hellholes of rapacious greed and pollution and destruction and sheer capitalistic joy?
Javier Sierra | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green
At the end of the 31st annual Hispanic Heritage month, Latinos in the US are still waiting to celebrate a crucial victory --getting rid of the toxic water that poisons so many of our communities.
Michelle Howard | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Is it possible that all that time wandering around outside talking to myself had something to do with my aptitude at school? Boredom, which drove me outside, is an art lost to contemporary childhood.
nytimes.com | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green
Some of these towns are offering energy retrofits; others furnish free parking to fuel-efficient hybrid cars. Yet others are limiting or banning the u...
Kevin George | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
These are just of few of the characters on the global stage whom I met - and who shared their stories of their paths on the road to Copenhagen.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
It is inconceivable that an honest and transparent accounting of the carbon emissions of petroleum when compared to those of ethanol would somehow be lower. It defies logic, reason, and most of all, facts.
Dan Agin | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living
Early prenatal exposure to the Hong Kong flu may have interfered with fetal cerebral development and caused reduced intelligence in adulthood.
Jennifer Schwab | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
Let’s remember that Bloomberg works for no salary, and has contributed hugely to the green movement by tackling many environmental issues in New York.
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oil and gas drilling will be permitted on some of the Utah land parcels near nati...
Saad Khan | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
Along with other South Asian nations, Pakistan is one of the countries worst affected by environmental pollution.
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.
news.nationalgeographic.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
October 7 -- Plastiki, a 60-foot-long (18.3-meter-long) catamaran made of more than 12,000 plastic bottles, will soon ply the Pacific Ocean to increas...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
Norway -- the first developed nation to make any solid commitment on this front -- is set to announce that it is committing to a 40% reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books
Jim Hoggan, co-founder of the DeSmogBlog Project, has written a book that chronicles the history of PR spin doctors working to confuse the realities of climate change (and tobacco).
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of atrazine, one of the most commonly-used herbicides in the co...
Brendan Smith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
We have learned a great deal more about the science of climate change. But we have barely begun to discuss what kind of political change is necessary to do what must be done.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is putting the federal government on a greenhouse-gas diet. In an executive order signed Monday, Obama dire...
treehugger.com | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
A new study by the University of Rochester found that after looking at nature scenes, people feel closer to their community, are willing to give more ...
ProPublica | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Stee...
Zem Joaquin | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green
We got our hens after we had to give up our dog due to my son's allergies. I decided that if I was getting a new pet, it was going to reciprocate and have some positive environmental claw-print.
Dan Agin | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green