Conservation, Native rights and sustainable energy: Cape Wind suffers another...
Nantucket Sound, photo by real00 (source: Flickr Creative Commons) What would be the United States’ first offshore wind farm project – dubbed Cape Wind – may be in jeopardy due to an announcement by...
View ArticleU.S. gets in gear for modest climate action
photo by Andrew Otto (source: Flicker Creative Commons / theimpressionist.co.uk) State Department climate change representative to the UN Todd Stern formally announced that the U.S. would reduce its...
View ArticleHealth care and private insurance: A conflict of interest
photo by Bsivad (source: Flickr Creative Commons) As an American who has lived in various European countries during the last ten years, I have an unusual, but perhaps insightful perspective on various...
View ArticleFriend or foe: Invasive species in the UK
American grey squirrel in London; photo by David Iliff (source: Wikimedia Commons) Minks and grey squirrels from North America, muntjac deer from China, red-necked wallabies from Australia – all have...
View ArticleFrance vs. the US: Wind, nukes and oil spills
photo by Pierre J. (source: Flickr Creative Commons) The United States and France have a strange rivalry. American revolutionaries were helped by France and in turn inspired French republicans. One...
View ArticleVideo: Gulf oil spill threatens Native American life in Louisiana
photo by New Orleans Lady (source: Flickr Creative Commons) The centuries old Indian – or Native American – communities on the Gulf coastline of Louisiana have put up with many years of hardship....
View ArticleNew polls in Britain and US show strong public belief in climate change
photo by db™ (source: Flickr Creative Commons) A new survey of UK residents conducted by the University of Cardiff shows that public acceptance of climate change is alive and well in Britain. From an...
View ArticleCreationism and climate change skepticism: Not so strange bedfellows
photo by tastypiesinc (source: Flickr Creative Commons) The politicization of science class in the American public education system is nothing new, the main issue of contention being the teaching of...
View ArticleAre American bullfrogs ecological time bombs?
photo by Tom Gill (Flickr CC) Millions of bullfrogs imported into California carry an infectious fungus that, although not fatal to bullfrogs, can wipe out populations of native frogs. Batrachochytrium...
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