Environment Information & Resources

Battery Recycling: Help Your Environment

Batteries may contain harmful metals and chemicals such as nickel cadmium, alkaline, mercury, nickel metal hydride and lead acid, which can contaminate the environment if not disposed properly. For example, when batteries ...

By: George Royal

Global Carbon and the Environment

Al Gore's documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth" is helping to make Americans more aware of the challenges they and the rest of the world face in the very near future, as carbon dioxide levels rise at a stagge...

By: Arthur Campbell

Are Disposable Nappies Really Bad for the Environment?

We read it in the press all the time; how disposable nappies contribute to the growing problem of waste management, the impact of disposable nappies on landfill sites and the overuse of synthetic chemicals in nappy compone...

By: Jack Prime

Two important anthropological theorists of the 20th century were Julian Steward, the father of cultural ecology; and Marvin Harris, who championed the theory of cultural materialism.

Sacramento could be required to spend $2 billion or more to clean up the treated sewage it discharges into the Sacramento River, according to a tentative permit released Friday by state water quali...

A passion for the environment is drawing students to a recently redesigned economics-based degree program at Mississippi State University.

In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 'bird flu' virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic.

of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 is helping restore quaking aspen in risky areas where wolves prowl.