Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
For those of you who have been following the growing concerns over the widespread use of the pesticide atrazine in the United States, you probably know that EPA recently announced it was going to conduct a top-to-bottom review of...
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Do we have any ethical obligations towards plants? Recently, a Swiss government panel addressed this very question--and concluded that we do. Conservative publications, like the Weekly Standard, were predictably derisive about the whole notion. But I’m not so sure. ...
Posted by Andrew Wetzler
Today’s New York Times has an op-ed by Taras Grescoe about the growing problem of invasive species, a topic I’ve blogged about here at Switchboard before. Although I have a few quibbles with his column--Grescoe is far too quick to...
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
A few years ago, NRDC joined the caviar emptor campaign, an effort to save endangered sturgeon--particularly beluga sturgeon--from overfishing as a result of the caviar trade. Because of our efforts, beluga sturgeon was ultimately listed as a threatened species under...
