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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Swimming alongside a sea turtle in coastal waters is certainly a thrilling sensation, but the experience is becoming increasingly harder to come by. Declines in sea turtle populations around the world and in U.S. waters over recent decades is a sad reminder of...
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Mollie Engelhardt’s farm looks messy. Every inch of Sow a Heart Farm in Fillmore, Calif., is growing one of more than 300 types of plants. In between the rows of fruit trees, Engelhardt has got organic peppers, garlic, broccoli, and cauliflower, all covered with a thin layer of grass or clover....
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Wildlife crossings save lives, both human and animal, by allowing migrating species to avoid oncoming traffic and move over or under roads and freeways instead. Now a coalition of scientists, nonprofits and government agencies are highlighting their potential to help us adapt to climate change. The partnership has just...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Like any major spectator sport league, the National Football League (NFL) is no darling to environmental advocates. Stadium construction, maintenance and energy use contribute significantly to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and resource depletion. Transportation of fans to games, waste generated during games, and...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk La malaria es una enfermad tropical que puede causar fiebre alta, temblores y síntomas feos parecidos a los de un resfrío. A veces puede ser fatal, pero hay varios tratamientos. Se esparce por parásitos que pueden vivir en mosquitos, por lo cual, si...
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Este invierno, los voluntarios contaron más de 335,000 mariposas monarca occidentales en el estudio anual, lo que supone una gran mejora respecto a los últimos anos, pero sigue estando muy por debajo de las cifras históricas. Los observadores solo contaron dos mil de estas icónicas mariposas negras y naranjas en...
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This winter, volunteers counted more than 335,000 Western monarch butterflies in an annual survey, a big improvement over the last few years, but still far short of historical numbers. Observers only counted 2,000 of the iconic black-and-orange butterflies in 2020, and then 250,000 in 2021. Rebeca Quinonez-Pinon, senior manager of...
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Cats and dogs eat a lot of meat. In the U.S., they gobble up about a quarter of the calories derived from livestock. If they were counted as a country, America’s pets would rank fifth in global meat consumption. Producing all that food generates about 64 million tons of...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk El plástico, originalmente aclamado por su longevidad y propiedades higiénicas de un solo uso, es uno de los campos de batalla más nuevos para los ambientalistas y los gobiernos del mundo. Aunque existen prohibiciones de algunas formas de plástico en más de 60...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Swimming alongside a sea turtle in coastal waters is certainly a thrilling sensation, but the experience is becoming increasingly harder to come by. Declines in sea turtle populations around the world and in U.S. waters over recent decades is a sad reminder of...
Mollie Engelhardt’s farm looks messy. Every inch of Sow a Heart Farm in Fillmore, Calif., is growing one of more than 300 types of plants. In between the rows of fruit trees, Engelhardt has got organic peppers, garlic, broccoli, and cauliflower, all covered with a thin layer of grass or clover....
Wildlife crossings save lives, both human and animal, by allowing migrating species to avoid oncoming traffic and move over or under roads and freeways instead. Now a coalition of scientists, nonprofits and government agencies are highlighting their potential to help us adapt to climate change. The partnership has just...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Like any major spectator sport league, the National Football League (NFL) is no darling to environmental advocates. Stadium construction, maintenance and energy use contribute significantly to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and resource depletion. Transportation of fans to games, waste generated during games, and...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk La malaria es una enfermad tropical que puede causar fiebre alta, temblores y síntomas feos parecidos a los de un resfrío. A veces puede ser fatal, pero hay varios tratamientos. Se esparce por parásitos que pueden vivir en mosquitos, por lo cual, si...
Este invierno, los voluntarios contaron más de 335,000 mariposas monarca occidentales en el estudio anual, lo que supone una gran mejora respecto a los últimos anos, pero sigue estando muy por debajo de las cifras históricas. Los observadores solo contaron dos mil de estas icónicas mariposas negras y naranjas en...
This winter, volunteers counted more than 335,000 Western monarch butterflies in an annual survey, a big improvement over the last few years, but still far short of historical numbers. Observers only counted 2,000 of the iconic black-and-orange butterflies in 2020, and then 250,000 in 2021. Rebeca Quinonez-Pinon, senior manager of...
Cats and dogs eat a lot of meat. In the U.S., they gobble up about a quarter of the calories derived from livestock. If they were counted as a country, America’s pets would rank fifth in global meat consumption. Producing all that food generates about 64 million tons of...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk El plástico, originalmente aclamado por su longevidad y propiedades higiénicas de un solo uso, es uno de los campos de batalla más nuevos para los ambientalistas y los gobiernos del mundo. Aunque existen prohibiciones de algunas formas de plástico en más de 60...