Global Indigo

Southern California Edison Co. plans to build the nation’s largest solar energy installation — an array of collector cells covering two square miles of rooftops that could power about 162,000 homes, the utility announced Thursday.
Edison said it asked state regulators for approval to begin installing the technology on the rooftops of commercial buildings throughout the […]

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Banish the Bags: This Whale Washed Up on a British Beach. In Its Stomach….the Remains of 23 Plastic Bags

 
Bloodied and skinned, its carcass lies on a British beach, battered by the sea and smashed by rocks. This shocking image shows the lifeless body of a Cuvier’s beaked whale - a shy and mysterious giant washed […]

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Air Pollution
Despite growing support from the chemical industry and environmentalists for phasing out several highly toxic and long-lived substances, new compounds continue to be introduced into global commerce at a rapid rate. Because the health effects of such substances often become apparent only long after their introduction, Worldwatch research emphasizes avoiding the use of toxic […]

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  Individual choices can have an impact on global climate change. Reducing your family’s heat-trapping emissions does not mean forgoing modern conveniences; it means making smart choices and using energy-efficient products, which may require an additional investment up front, but often pay you back in energy savings within a couple of years.Since Americans’ per capita emissions […]

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Coral reefs are one of the wonders of nature, because of their enchanting beauty and unusual biology. In addition, many consider them to be second only to tropical rain forests as incubators and protectors of biodiversity.
The reefs, which grow in shallow, warm waters, consist largely of the skeletons of small, sedentary animals called polyps, which […]

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Forests are prime reservoirs of biodiversity, as well as the ancient cradle of the human race. Anthropologists believe that species ancestral toours lived amid the trees, later emerging to grassland savannas to explore and hunt.
Still cradles of life, forests also perform all kinds of practical services that benefit modern humans. They produce oxygen we breathe […]

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The world holds far more than the 40,000 or so species currently being utilized on a daily basis. That is why the exploratory research efforts of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries must go beyond simply cataloguing the experiences of local peoples. Although we have no precise idea of how many plant, animal, fungal, and microbial […]

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