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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is playing with fire -- literally. Because of the NRC’s lax enforcement, four dozen nuclear reactors across the country still don’t comply with fire regulations the agency established 32 years ago.
As more than a million tons of trash and debris from last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan float toward the West Coast, everyone's worried about what it will mean for the region's beaches and public health.
Because the world's most imperiled species are sometimes found in the world's most dangerous places, the combustible mix of focused altruism and local desperation can collide and result in horrific tragedy.
Like most of us, I've assumed national parks would always be around. But unfortunately, for the first time in more than a century, these national treasures are not a guaranteed part of our landscape.
There's been a scuttle of Congressional activity surrounding what one paper purported "may be one of the most important stories ever ignored by the media."
Since its inception, the race has brought in about $3.2 million, including $500,000 in 2011, for a range of important education, community development, health and wildlife conservation projects across Kenya.
Slow food in the favelas may seem like a contradiction in terms -- but such disruptive innovations, not the bland, frothy platitudes of the official Rio 20 declaration, are in fact "the Future We Want."
Seed Savers has blossomed into a 13,000-member nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and spread heirloom (nonhybrid, that is) vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers by exchanging and selling seeds.
For all the disappointment coming out of Rio, our world leaders can still come home and take concrete steps to promote sustainable development and to wipe out poverty. They can start by supporting businesses that protect our air and water, eradicate poverty, and innovate solutions.
Christians are seeing that climate action is part of Christ's lordship in our lives, even in the midst of hardship and opposition.
The liqueur program at The Spare Room is a time-consuming process based on local harvest, making it 'the best of last season's foraging.'
We can turn the tide against persistent water pollution. Today more than ever, we know that much of this pollution pattern is preventable.
It may be hard to imagine, but the outer edges of Antarctica were once green, luscious and teeming with vegetation, a new study has uncovered.
I firmly believe a new generation of pragmatic and committed leaders was hard at work at the conference in Rio. Our job now is to identify who these leaders are and how to work with them to ensure they succeed.
Documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group show that bureaucrats within the NY DEC granted the oil and gas industry premature access to highly controversial draft regulations for shale gas fracking in the state.
Let's face it. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio 20) was a flop -- at least the part that involved negotiations amongst governments.
In the U.K. and the rest of Europe, when it comes to the environment, judges often don't know the law. And they can be wilful in remaining ignorant.
While Rio 20 did not produce any major environmental breakthroughs, there is hope on another front: population. An international family planning summit will take place in London on July 11, World Population Day.
We caught up with George on the heels of winning the NRDC's fourth annual Growing Green Award, given for his efforts in making our food system healthier and more sustainable.
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