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1: Are Biodiesel's Environmental Benefits Being Unfairly Presen...

Since the production of biodiesel fuel requires the expenditure of energy some have claimed that the environmental benefits of biodiesel fuel are being unfairly presented. That, in...

By: Carl Street

2: The Increase of Allergies and Sensitivities

Allergies and sensitivities seem to be on the increase, more and more people seem to be suffering from them nowadays. Food allergies and sensitivities seem to especially be on the ...

By: Stewart Hare

3: Latinos High Risk Population for Environmental Contaminants

Pollution in the United States poses health risks for everyone, regardless of race, language, age or country of origin. A large percentage of U.S. Latinos, however, live and work i...

By: Sara Goldstein

4: Ask a Disaster Recovery Specialist

What would happen to your data if: you backed your SUV over your laptop? your laptop spent two days in a sunken cruise ship submerged at the bott...

By: June Campbell

5: High Speed UAV Air Sampling of Environmental Contaminants

Collecting air samples is not as easy as it looks. Even as we watched the Stardust NASA mission, which collected samples coming from the Comet we realize that they themselves did n...

By: Lance Winslow

6: How Light Pollution Can Affect the Environment

We have all heard of water pollution and air pollution. Furthermore, most people would not argue the fact that they are indeed a problem. However, light may be the only source of p...

By: Erin Hunt

Global Warming’s Imprint on New York City

As global mean temperatures continue to rise moving the Earth into its warmest period in 10 million years, New York City has begun to feel an immediate impact. While rising ocean levels have not inundated ...

By: William Sutherland

How Light Pollution Can Affect the Environment

We have all heard of water pollution and air pollution. Furthermore, most people would not argue the fact that they are indeed a problem. However, light may be the only source of pollution that is overlook...

By: Erin Hunt

10 Ways to Help the Environment in Your Garden

1. Grow your own food and reduce food miles. By growing some of your own food you will be reducing the amount of fossil fuel that has been used to transport your food to ZERO. This year at home we have gro...

By: Louise Manning

With the U.S. economy mired in a slump, Americans still believe saving the environment is more important than fixing the economy, according to a new poll released Thursday. But consumers are more clo...

Los Angeles (CA) - A University of California scientist says our love of large television sets could be destroying our environment.

The municipal administrator of Tombwa, Joćo Guerra, appealed Thursday to citizens to keep their township quarters clean, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the environment of the city.