toxic pollution

One third of the honeybee colonies in the United States died last winter, according to researchers.  Over the past 25 years, the managed honeybee population of the U.S. has been cut in half…we’re talking about billions of bees.

The last day of session for the New York State Legislature is June 23. There are scores of important environmental bills on the table, regarding alternative energy, toxic sites, traffic congestion and much, much more. Your voice is crucial to making sure that our elected officials see the voters care about these issues – so make your voice heard today by joining NYLCV’s call to action.

Wild and happy is a lot about environment and wildlife and all the more about personal experiences while dealing with these issues. We are not going to preach about global warming, pollution, save forests…blah…blah…blah. It is more about the people dealing with these problems and learning to modulate to deal with them, about the people who suffer due to them and how easily we have chosen to ignore them,

Here's a video of a family in West Virginia whose water well is about 3 miles from a coal waste slurry. Watch what happens when he puts a penny under the tap to his bath water. This coal is hardly clean.

Bamboo has achieved its green reputation for sound reasons. As one of the world's fastest growing plants, it grows up to 1 foot per day and can be harvested in an average five years, as opposed to the 40 to 120 years it takes to grow most trees.  However, there are a few snakes in the grass; not all aspects of bamboo are entirely green.

Great, easy to understand write up on how cap-and-trade systems work and how they started.

US-based independent environmental group, The Blacksmith Institute, has published a list of the planet’s ten most polluted places.

The (alphabetical by country) list of the top 10 is as follows…

The city prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation in connection with twelve illegal drains channeling industrial discharge into the River Neva. The investigations were prompted by a new report by the international environmental pressure group Greenpeace.