Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Federal officials want to assure the public that they're serious about stopping the dreaded Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes and destroying its $7 billion fishing industry. So they're holding a public meeting this afternoon to brief the region...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
The Associated Press is reporting this week that federal regulators under President Obama are taking the first steps toward regulating drugs in the nation's drinking water supply -- a problem first reported by science writer Elizabeth Royte in "Drugging Our...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Reviving the World's Oceans
When I was growing up, my family lived in New Orleans for several years, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. One of my father's friends had a boat, and he liked to take it out shrimping. My dad and...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
Where does your drinking water come from?Natural historian Sidney Horenstein has been asking that question around New York City for decades. The answer he always gets is: "From the faucet."This Sunday, however, is World Water Day, an event created by...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment
Yesterday, my wife forwarded me an "Important Announcement Regarding Your Recent Purchase of Peanut Butter" that she got from Fresh Direct, the online grocery service here in New York City.This was not a good e-mail.As my wife will tell you,...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master’s degree at Columbia University (yeah, some "year off"), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that’s just...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , The Media and the Environment
Answer: They’re black and white and read all over. Sunday’s New York Times was something of a bonanza (albeit a sobering one) for anyone interested in environmental news. In a front-page story, Elisabeth Rosenthal reports from Barcelona on the...
