It is a lot to ask the microbial population in a septic system to break down chemicals that they have never experienced in nature, let alone those designed to inhibit their activities.
Author: William Schlesinger
Woody Biomass Fuels
Trees are the most efficient net-negative emissions technology that we know of.
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
When we lose a species, the bell tolls for us.
The Forests are Burning
The incidence of forest fire is likely to increase in a warmer, drier world.
Nitrogen Pollution
Nearly all nitrogen pollution stems from agriculture, which strives to feed more than 7 billion of us with low-cost abundance.
A Bird in the Bush
When we lose birds, we are witnessing the continued unraveling of nature that will leave behind a less healthy and impoverished world for the future.
Waters of the United States
Eliminating protection for first order and seasonal (ephemeral) streams means that anything that might be dumped in the headwaters of major rivers would be exempt from pollution laws
Nylon Rope in the Sea
What astounded us is the sheer volume of nylon line discarded by fishing boats
The ocean is a noisy place
Noise in the sea is of immediate relevance to life in the sea
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyls
we must depend on federal regulations that prevent the purposeful or inadvertent contaminations of the environment from affecting the health of all of us.