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Posted 5 days ago
USA TODAY has won about every award it can so far with its toxic air series, Smokestack Effect. For a behind the scenes look at how it was put together, the Society of Environmental Journalists have p
Posted 1 week ago
Remember this commercial, from the second Earth Day in 1971?Read more here.Hey, a big Earth Day is coming up in April. The big 4-0! Does that mean Earth Day is now officially over the hill? ;)
Posted 1 week ago
Two powerful quotes I found while doing some research in preparation for the big Society of Environmental Journalists conference to be held this fall in Missoula, Montana. I'm co-chairing the event. B
Tags: research
Posted 1 week ago
The same team that made the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove, the subject of yesterday's Watchdog Earth item (found here), are exposing a practice that I was not aware of: Sushi restaurants
Posted 1 week ago
An environmental topic -- the slaughter and captivity of dolphins -- scored an Oscar last night at the Academy Awards ceremony. It came in the form of best feature documentary, a film called The Cove,
Posted 1 week ago
Now that's a big mine! They call it a superpit.It's in Australia. Read more about it here.Source: NASA
Posted 2 weeks ago
Louisville's problem with toxic air and the city's adoption of its Strategic Toxic Air Reduction program, called STAR, generated a lot of headlines a few years back. So has some of the program's posit
Tags: air pollution regulation
Posted 2 weeks ago
The new observation module of the International Space Station.Read about it here.
Posted 2 weeks ago
Here's a study with resonance in the Louisville metro area:California's dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such
Posted 2 weeks ago
I am declaring this Earth-from-Space week. I'll be sharing NASA photos, starting with this one of polar mesospheric clouds over the Southern Hemisphere on January 30, 2010. From NASA: These occur ov
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