The Conservation Report presents the latest environmental buzz, news, and comment from a moderate perspective. From air pollution to zoonotic diseases and everything else in between.
In being an environmentally responsible pet owner, cats shouldn’t be left outside, because they’ll devastate small animal populations. However, hunting and killing small native creatures aren’t a housecat’s sole environmentally unfriendly vice....
Recently, DNA evidence by Notre Dame University scientists seems to confirm that Asian carp have breached the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ electrical fish barrier, which protects Lake Michigan from invasive species such as the Asian carp.
As a...
Image: An offshore wind farm situated in the Baltic Sea near Samsø, Denmark.
The utility, National Grid, has offered to start negotiations in order to formulate a deal to purchase power from Cape Wind. At issue, is the cost of energy from the...
In terms of applying prudent energy policy here in the United States, we can certainly do what Samsø is doing on a much larger scale. More from Popular Science:
Samso — about 30 miles long and 15 miles across — began its trek toward sustainability in...
Growing fast food: Cattle fed on corn eventually become sick and die. Via a transcript from Fresh Air with Terry Gross (emphasis added):
GROSS: Let’s get back to the cow’s stomach.
Mr. POLLAN: Yeah.
GROSS: So the cow now is eating corn instead of...
