By James Gerken OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb 28 (Reuters) – Nearly 25 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill off the southern coast of Alaska, sea otters in the most affected parts of Prince William Sound have recovered to their pre-spill numbers, a federal report released on Friday showed. Several thousand sea otters died in the […]
By Bill Chameides An unconscionable amount of food is wasted around the globe. Here’s a look. (Sporkist/Flickr) The amount of food we waste is enough to make you sick … many times over. The latest installment [pdf] in the World Bank’s “Food Price Watch” series has just been released. If you’re a consumer — and […]
By James Gerken The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to advance a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, in the nation’s second-largest city. The motion passed Friday instructs the city’s attorney to draft new zoning regulations that would prohibit fracking and other oil- and gas-well stimulation techniques within city limits […]
By James Gerken BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed a bill Friday that imposes jail time and fines against people who secretly film animal abuse at Idaho’s agricultural facilities. Otter inked the new law swiftly, just two days after it cleared its final legislative hurdle in the House. The bill came in […]
By Megan Griffo Jf Pryor raised his hand in the hair — shot it up, really — when he first saw a picture of Thor, a 2-year-old boxer-bulldog mix who was left to die on the streets of Rosarito, Mexico. “It was like I was the biggest nerd sitting in front of the teacher, saying, […]
By Kayri Havens Everyone’s career path is different, but much of what we hope to glean from our work is the same. We all want to love what we do. The poet Kahlil Gibran wrote that ‘to work with love is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.’ I […]
By Hunter Stuart Well, this is kind of sh*tty, isn’t it? The city of Naples, Italy, is implementing a plan to take DNA tests from dog poop to catch people who don’t pick up after their pets, according to The New York Times. If it turns out to be your dog’s turd on the sidewalk, […]
By Molly Rauch When EPA held a public hearing earlier this month on its proposed rule to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, I expected to hear comments from engineers, economists, policy experts, health professionals, and atmospheric scientists about the rule. I also knew that moms and dads were going to be there in […]
By Jeff Biggers Is it enough for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and state treasurer candidate Mike Frerichs to hustle today to purge their campaigns of tainted coal industry contributions from a growing mine safety regulator scandal, or should citizens groups and environmentalists hold the Democratic candidates accountable for their full-throttle push behind the state’s unprecedented […]
By Lydia O’Connor House cats — in all their notoriously lazy glory — may actually help scientists figure out how to control obesity in humans. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco are looking to calico cats, known for their orange and black patchwork fur, to better understand “gene silencing”, the ability of a […]