Farouk El-Baz: From Egypt's Deserts to the Moon and Back
El-Baz plans to highlight the issues of sustainable development and self-preservation at the Arab Environment 2009 conference in Beirut, Lebanon this November
El-Baz plans to highlight the issues of sustainable development and self-preservation at the Arab Environment 2009 conference in Beirut, Lebanon this November
Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?
Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.
Stefan Aschan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Walk into any supermarket and you will be bombarded with the smarter, better, or life changing water. You walk down the ale and then you don't know what makes sense.
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Dr. Peter Gleick rolls up his sleeves in his latest post about science, fact and rationality.
guardian.co.uk | Fred Pearce | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
In part, no doubt, to help salvage its GM-tarnished reputation, Monsanto now makes great play of its efforts to help engineer a second green revolutio...
news.xinhuanet.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
Firefighting aircraft have dropped about 1.7 million gallons of water and nearly 700,000 gallons of fire-retardant chemicals in an effort to put out t...
AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
ANKARA, Turkey — In a change of heart, Turkey said Thursday it would strive to increase the amount of water it releases to Syria and Iraq throug...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Let's hope that the Constitutional Court and the U.S. court of public opinion come to the right conclusion and accept responsibility for essential services.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Fires rage across California as Hurricane Jimena bears down on Baja; Lights out for incandescent lightbulbs; The Summer of...
Timothy LaSalle | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Even atrazine's advocates do not deny the toxicity of the chemical outright -- it is, in fact, a substance created to kill. The legal pollution in our water has unacceptable human consequences.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Happy Anniversaries -- sort of; The Politics of "Fracking"; How about some weed-killer in your drinking water?... PLUS: Another sad loss for the environment... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer f...
cookinglight.com | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
When it comes to health, drinking the recommended daily amount of water is more important to women than having enough sex, according to a national sur...
ProPublica | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three...
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 08.25.2009 | Green
According to our new Circle of Blue GlobeScan public opinion survey, WaterViews, we now know that people globally care most about water.
John DeCock | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green
Our primary concern now is that further delay by the state not only puts those drinking Hexavalent Chromium at risk, but delays clean up of water supplies and fails to hold polluters accountable.
John DeCock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
A prolonged, determined effort is going to be necessary to end the life of King Coal.
Michele Kayal | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
This weekend I was asked to pass judgment on tomatoes. Which is far better than water because a) they have an actual taste, and b) good tomatoes are so hard to come by.
Jennifer Schwab | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
For homeowners with larger lots of, say, a quarter acre and up, gray water systems can make an immediate impact on preserving this precious resource while reducing your water bill significantly.
Mother Jones | —Rachel Morris and Daniel Schulman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
We charted the miles per bottle for nine top water brands....
Larry Smith | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green
Here's a Six-Word Challenge about one of summer's treats and earth's increasingly rare resources: water
Sara Avant Stover | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Cucumber water is so refreshing on hot summer days and looks quite elegant simply sitting on the kitchen counter or table, too.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
Is climate change a threat to national security?
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.11.2009 | World