Articles tagged “Focus Earth Issues”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Focus on Focus Earth: Dust Storms Strike the Southwest By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 31 2009 The American Southwest, and specifically Navajo Nation land, is perhaps the fastest warming region in the U.S., and the most vulnerable to climate change-induced drought. "We've gone through droughts before, but never dust storms like this. It's tearing off roofs... It gets worse every year." + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Global Warming and Hurricanes: What's the Connection? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 31 2009 As the frequency and intensity of--and damaged caused by--tropical storms increase, the need to understand their connection with global warming also increases. Scientists are studying everything from the changes in water vapor concentration over the world's oceans to the change in frequency of hurricanes between the 1800s and today. Here's a quick intro. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Risk of Floods and Drought In California Stirs Leaders to Action By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 31 2009 In partnership with Google, Governor Schwarzenegger just unveiled a climate model suggesting that several of northern California's landmarks could be underwater in the next 100 years. And unlike some leaders in Washington and around the world, he's acting on it. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Why Copenhagen? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 18 2009 From bicycles to clean energy, Copenhagen residents are already leading by example. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Rural Trash Dump By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 4 2009 The 3 million cubic yards of coal ash that spilled at the Tennessee Valley Authority power plant last year are now being buried in Alabama. Don't worry, officials assure (despite the mercury and arsenic contamination) it is safe. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Oh, That Dirty Water By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 4 2009 Fracking is destroying public water supplies, while the polluting company denies any wrongdoing. Again. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Greening the Ghetto By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 4 2009 Fighting sewage treatment facilities, power plants, and other environmental hazards that no one wants in their community has been Majora Carter's mission for years, and she's winning. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Erin Brockovitch Still Going Strong--Because the Fight Is Not Over Yet By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 4 2009 Almost a decade after the hit film showed off her legal success story and made her an environmental celebrity, Erin Brockovich still has contamination battles to pursue. And she's taking them on, full speed ahead. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: The Endangered American Prairie Makes Environmentalists Out of Ranchers By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 Usually at odds with each other, ranchers and conservationists have come together in the American west to conserve and revive the health of the American prairie. A respect for the land and the need to keep it healthy have created these unlikely but fruitful partnerships. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Grey Wolf Hunting Allowed! By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 Wolves are either an endangered species or the enemy of farmers, depending on perspective. A hunting season was just reinstated for this once endangered animal, to no small opposition from conservationists. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Air Safety Vs. Geese, An Unfair Battle By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 Ever since the US Airways scare in New York, geese have been blamed for endangering air safety. But it's not such a fair game. Killing geese (the wrong kind) while they're grounded is not the answer. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: "24" Pledged to Go Green More Than A Year Ago; Is It Carbon Neutral Yet? By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Oct 30 2009 Fox News announced more than a year ago that it would be carbon neutral by 2010, and 24 was the first show to live up to the goal. How'd it get there, and is the rest of the network on track? + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Is Hollywood Really Going Green? By Rachel Cernansky IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 30 2009 Hollywood institutions are taking eco-friendly baby steps, with a few individuals making real strides for environment. But the entertainment industry on the whole has to do more than buy offsets before it can really call itself green. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Ed Norton Runs With Team Maasai For the NYC Marathon By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 30 2009 Ed Norton invited three of his Maasai friends to travel from Kenya to run with him in the NYC marathon (which he's never run before-and it's not easy, he's already having shin splints.). The cause? Conservation back home in Kenya, a nation famous for its runners. Norton first visited Kenya nearly ten years ago, and when he found the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, he realized he found a group that had stumbled upon a path to sustainability that makes sense. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: How Do You Fight Dengue Fever in a City With a 78% Infection Rate? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 16 2009 Matamoros, Mexico is facing an uphill battle against one of the world's worst insect-transmitted diseases, and the Texas border is not far away. How are officials there working to stop the disease from escalating within the town, and from spreading north? + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Climate Change Vs. Economics: What Determines How Infectious Diseases Spread? By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Oct 16 2009 While many climate change and public health specialists argue that climate change will enable infectious diseases to spread like they never have before, others disagree--with some saying that some infectious disease rates will even decline, and others taking the view that the spread (or control) of disease is primarily a matter of wealth. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Add Disease Prevention to Border Security Needs By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Oct 16 2009 Infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, as temperatures rise. With Dengue on the verge of entering the U.S. and other diseases apt to spread in ways they haven't before, new techniques are needed to step up the fight of disease prevention. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Malaria in the U.S.? How Climate Change Could Be Disease's Best Friend By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Oct 16 2009 As the seasons change and temperatures rise due to climate change, infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, than we've known them to do in the past. Lyme disease spreading to Canada and Dengue to the U.S. are just the beginning. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Nuclear Power: Boost or Threat to National Security? By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 2 2009 To some, nuclear power is a clean source of energy that we must develop further if we are to move any closer to energy independence. To others, it's a recipe for disaster, either by accident, like the Three Mile Island disaster of 1979, or by design, if (or when) nuclear fuel gets into the wrong hands. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Nuclear Power: Still a Controversy, After All These Years By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 2 2009 Nuclear power still fuels controversy nationwide, over whether it's the source of clean, renewable energy we need, or an invitation for disaster. + READ MORE