Articles tagged “Focus Earth Issues”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Focus on Focus Earth: When Recycling Isn't (Necessarily) Green: the Nuclear Waste Issue By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 2 2009 France reprocesses its spent nuclear fuel; should we do the same? Both sides of the argument make a strong case for what they believe is the right answer. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth Greenwashing: Know When a Company Is Green And When It's Just Good at Green Imaging? By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Sep 18 2009 Corporations have a vested interest in painting over their non-green initiatives with a pseudo-green image. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Can Children Solve the Environment Crisis? By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Sep 4 2009 Having a child increases a parent's ecological footprint instantly, but if kids are trained right, they can become the environmental stewards that the current generation has so far failed to be. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: More People + Fewer Resources = Growing Conflict By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 4 2009 As the world's population grows, wars will escalate and spread as people compete for access to the earth's diminishing supply of available resources. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Overpopulation 101, What's Wrong With Too Many People? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 4 2009 Overpopulation is wearing down the health of the planet. What's happening to the environment, and is it too late to undo the damage? + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Is Human Extinction the Next Environmental Movement? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 4 2009 Some advocates believe the only way to save the planet is to eliminate ourselves from. + READ MORE

Are Frozen Zoos The Conservation Effort of the Future? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 21 2009 A strange thing is happening in the world of wildlife conservation. "Frozen zoos," are gaining momentum as a potential solution for species preservation. + READ MORE

Captive Breeding: Part of the Solution or Adding to the Endangered Species Problem? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 21 2009 Captive breeding might sound like a quick-fix for boosting endangered species populations, but critics disagree. Critics, however, maintain that conservation through captive breeding reduces genetic diversity, which, among other consequences, can result in a lack of immunity to disease and other problems. + READ MORE

Conservationists Working to Make the Endangered Puerto Rican Parrot Less Endangered By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 21 2009 Thanks in part to the hard work of conservationists and captive breeding-and-release programs, the wild parrot population has been restored from a low of 13 in 1975 to about 85 today. + READ MORE

Score for the Oceans: Surfer Becomes an Activist By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 11 2009 World-renowned surfing champion Kelly Slater is working hard to bring the world's attention to the threats currently facing the bodies of water that have helped bring him his fame. + READ MORE

Waterways Around the World: Still Being Polluted, Still Not Being Cleaned Up By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 11 2009 Water may be the source of life, but when it is used as a garbage dump, open sewer system, or is polluted in other ways, it loses its ability to provide for all forms of it. Yet that is exactly what is happening across the world, from Indonesia's River Citarum to the Pacific Ocean to small-scale lakes and creeks in New York State. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Coal's Hard Truth By David DeFranza IN Work & Connect Jul 10 2009 Human's have been using coal as a fuel for centuries but growing concerns over climate change, finite supplies, and air pollution have raised questions about coal's viability as a global energy source. Still, thanks to its entrenched infrastructure and current low cost, coal remains the cornerstone of many nations' power grids. The global reliance on coal is, according to many environmentalists and some residents of mining regions, a dangerous dependency that can only be cured by further development of alternative energy sources. However, for some politicians and coal-focused entrepreneurs, there is another alternative: clean coal. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Mountain Minefield By Stephanie Sharpe IN Work & Connect Jul 10 2009 In Appalachia, where mountaintop mining is prevalent, all of the residents are affected by mountaintop mining, whether they say it is for good or bad. The heated debate over the issue comes from its complex nature, and the fact that whole towns and its people rely on mountaintop mining as their livelihood. However at the same time, these same residents and their surrounding environment suffer from the pollution and residual effects of the explosive process. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: The Beginning of Eco-Terrorism (Video) By David DeFranza IN Work & Connect Jun 26 2009 Since the birth of the environmental movement in the 1960s, activists have branched off to follow a variety of paths, each with its preferred methods of action. In recent years, the focus has largely been on personal actions, things each individual can do to help the planet, and and encourage political regulation. Some environmentalists, however, have taken a different, more aggressive, approach that involves direct confrontation with polluters, developers, and anyone else believed to be harming the environment. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Saving the Whales (Video) By Stephanie Sharpe IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 25 2009 With several species of whales endangered and other populations on the decline, it seems like it should be illegal to hunt whales for commercial purposes. Well it is, according to the International Whaling Commission (IWC), but some countries have chosen not to pay any attention to this decree. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Snake Invaders By David DeFranza IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 12 2009 The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world, known to grow more than 18 feet in length. Native to Southeast Asia, the python is considered threatened in that region. In Florida, however, the snakes are thriving and their ballooning populations are becoming increasingly dangerous for the native species of the Everglades. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Everglades Nevermore By Stephanie Sharpe IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 12 2009 The Everglades, a subtropical wetlands in Southern Florida, is the heart of Florida's wildest, most natural scenery. Sometimes called the River of Grass because it is filled with saw grass and other wild marshland grasses, it is part of a complex eco-system that many birds and animals depend upon for food and shelter. As agricultural and urban development expands, however, the Everglades are are whithering away. As a consequence its waters are becoming polluted. And the animals that call the Everglades their home are threatened, several even in danger of extinction. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Hurricane Forecast By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth May 22 2009 The 2008 hurricane season was one of the most severe in recent history. Of the 16 named storms last year, eight escalated to hurricanes and five of those were considered severe. All-told, these storms caused more than $54 billion in... + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: New Fuel Standards By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth May 22 2009 On May 19, 2009, President Barack Obama announced a new plan to increase vehicle fuel-economy nationwide. The plan will require the corporate average fleet economy, or CAFE, standard to meet 39 mpg by 2016, four years earlier than previous proposals.... + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Melting Tundra By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth May 15 2009 Formerly a land of ice and snow, the Arctic tundra is starting to get a bit more temperate. As the region warms, lakes that have been frozen for centuries have thawed and the permafrost, soil that formerly stayed frozen year-round,... + READ MORE