environment

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Fracking Is Depleting Water Supplies In America's Driest Areas, Report Shows

Suzanne Goldenberg | WN.com | February 5, 2014

From Texas to California, drilling for oil and gas is using billions of gallons of water in the country's most drought-prone areas An aerial photograph shows a large field of fracking sites in a north-western Colorado valley. [...] Read More »

30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs In Africa 2014

Mfonobong Nsehe | Forbes | February 4, 2014

There has never been a more inspired generation of young Africans. These builders, innovators and risk takers are fervent in their resolve to transform the continent. They are solving critical socio-economic problems, exporting African culture to the world, creating job opportunities for Africans, re-telling Africa’s stories, and writing the future. Read More »

3D Printing Could Save The Environment, Or Possibly Destroy It

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | December 17, 2013

Imagine the world of 3D printing fully realized. Read More »

7 Healthcare Big Data Projects Get Knight Foundation Funding To Push For Public Health

Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | January 15, 2014

An online portal connecting researchers with people willing to share their health data, a community health dashboard and a text-based counseling program for teens were the big winners of The Knight Foundation’s $2.2 million health data challenge. Read More »

A Sustainable City With Cars And Low-Density Homes? It's Possible

Eric Jaffe | The Atlantic Cities | June 28, 2013

The core problem of creating sustainable cities is as well-known as it is tricky. On the one hand, everyone who's thoughtful about urban sustainability admits the environmental, economic, and social problems of sprawl and auto-dependency. Read More »

American Geophysical Union And Wiley Partner To Launch New Open Access Journal

Press Release | Wiley, American Geophysical Union (AGU) | June 11, 2013

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today their partnership to publish the new open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth’s Future, which will begin accepting submissions on 17 June. Read More »

As Fracking Booms, Growing Concerns About Wastewater

Roger Real Drouin | Yale Environment 360 | February 18, 2014

With hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas continuing to proliferate across the U.S., scientists and environmental activists are raising questions about whether millions of gallons of contaminated drilling fluids could be threatening water supplies and human health. Read More »

Beepocalypse Redux: Honeybees Are Still Dying — And We Still Don’t Know Why

Bryan Walsh | Time | May 7, 2013

More than five years after it was first reported, colony-collapse disorder is still killing honeybees around the world. If scientists can't pinpoint the cause, the economic and environmental damage could be immense Read More »

Cancer Deaths Double In Argentina's GMO Agribusiness Areas

Lawrence Woodward | The Ecologist | August 24, 2014

Sharply increased levels of crop spraying in Argentina's most intensively farmed areas have resulted in a public health disaster, writes Lawrence Woodward, with large increases in cancer incidence. And it's all the result of the widespread use of GMO crops engineered for herbicide resistance...

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Feds To Alaskans: No Road For Humans, Lots Of Land For Animals

Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News | February 26, 2014

In one of Alaska's most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport. Read More »

Fracking – Suicide Capitalism Poisons The Earth’s Fresh Water Supplies

Dylan Murphy | Rebellious Independent News & Film (RINF) | February 11, 2014

[...] Governments across the world are triumphantly declaring that gas fracking is the solution to our rapacious energy needs. Yet as each month goes by new studies emerge in the United States of how this industry is poisoning water supplies and posing a grave threat to public health. Read More »

Green America Campaign Targets Starbucks Over GMO Milk

Staff Writer | Sustainable Pulse | March 4, 2014

Green America’s GMO Inside campaign today launched a major push to get Starbucks, America’s largest coffee chain with more than 20,000 stores in 62 countries, to serve only organic milk sourced from cows not fed GMOs.

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Health-Enhanced Land Use Planning Software Tool

Kim Perrotta | Healthy Canada by Design CLASP | January 15, 2014

Toronto Public Health has released a report, A Health and Environment Enhanced Land Use Planning Tool – Highlights, which describes the development and pilot testing of a health-enhanced land use planning tool that was developed under the Healthy Canada by Design CLASP I Initiative with funding provided by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC). Read More »

How America’s Dairyland Is Polluted By Factory Farms

Elizabeth Grossman | EcoWatch | May 27, 2014

The slogan on Wisconsin’s license plate—“America’s Dairyland”—celebrates the state’s number one agricultural activity and iconic status as a milk and cheese producer. What it doesn’t reveal is how dramatically the dairy industry in Wisconsin and in other parts of the U.S. has been changing, or the environmental concerns those changes pose. Read More »

How FrontlineSMS Helped An Indonesian Community Clean Up A River

Een Irawan Putra | MediaShift Idea Lab | May 14, 2013

FrontlineSMS has had a strong connection with environmental issues since our founder had the initial spark of an idea while working on an anti-poaching project in South Africa. We're delighted to share how Een Irawan Putra of KPC Bogor and the Indonesia Nature Film Society used FrontlineSMS in Indonesia to invite the community to help clean up the garbage clogging the Ciliwung River. Read More »