Environmental Reading


© Kenneth Friedman

Anyone remember Earth Day?

Dust cloud brings Asian smog to U.S., Researchers say it’s visible proof of ongoing problem. Neat photo.

Navy Sonar Blamed for Dead Whales Maneuvers may have deafened animals, led to 16 beachings. Last spring Kenneth Balcomb, a marine mammalogist, woke to find an unsettling situation outside his Abaco Island home in the Bahamas: a 16-foot Cuvier's beaked whale weighing some 2 tons stranded in knee-deep water.

Scientists say Great Barrier Reef choking to death

A Run on the Banks How "Factory Fishing." Decimated Newfoundland Cod. Five hundred years ago, the explorer John Cabot returned from the waters around what is now Newfoundland and reported that codfish ran so thick you could catch them by hanging wicker baskets over a ship's side.

World Resources Institute Report Warns of Growing Destruction of World's Coastal Areas

Smithsonian Plans Changes as Biologists Cry Disaster

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