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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Cell service in national parks has become a flashpoint in recent years as cellular providers compete to blanket the U.S. with coverage—even in remote, traditionally off-grid areas. On one side of this most modern of environmental debates stand wilderness buffs, who liken letting...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On July 29 it was 2019 Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the day of the year by which we have used as many natural resources as Earth can renew in an entire year. It’s the day humanity has “blown its budget” of things like clean...
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SACRAMENTO, California – El 29 de julio fue el Día del Overshoot de la Tierra 2019, que marca el día del año en el que hemos utilizado tantos recursos naturales como la Tierra puede renovar en un año entero. Es el día en que la humanidad ha “gastado su...
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Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Si bien los campamentos tradicionales son geniales, no siempre se sienten como un escape a la naturaleza, especialmente dado el aspecto de perro-come-perro de anotar un sitio y el hecho de que vivirás justo al lado de tus vecinos. Y si bien el...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk While traditional campgrounds are great, they don’t always feel like an escape to nature, especially given the dog-eat-dog aspect of scoring a site and the fact that you’ll be living right next to your neighbors. And while the price may be right —...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Not every business leader in the U.S. agrees with Donald Trump that global warming isn’t worth the worry. Anyone looking at the facts realizes that climate change is bad for most businesses, except those willing to adapt to new times or those...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Acne—when sebum from oil glands under the skin clogs pores causing small bacterial infections that lead to swelling and discomfort—isn’t just a temporary annoyance during our teenage years; it plagues many of us throughout our adult lives as well. Some 85 percent of...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Brainchild of Harvard biochemist Daniel Nocera, the “bionic leaf” is a small man-made solar collector that takes sunlight and water and turns it into any of a variety of usable fuels or fertilizers. Nocera’s first iteration, the so-called “artificial leaf,” was developed in...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Es cierto que muchos productos de limpieza comunes para el hogar contienen químicos sintéticos que pueden enfermar a los habitantes de su hogar. El Grupo de Trabajo Ambiental (EWG, por sus siglas en inglés) sin fines de lucro examinó las listas de ingredientes...