Dear EarthTalk: The soda bottle I'm holding only lists a few U.S. states and deposit amounts on it. Aren't more than just a few states requiring that bottles be returned for recycling?

Dear EarthTalk: What are the implications of the massive thaw that is taking place right now in Western Siberia?

Taking steps to reduce can have an impact on many areas of your life.

While conducting research upon completion of his sociology Ph.D. in Houston in 1979, Dr. Robert Bullard noticed that all the city’s garbage dumps

The practices and principles of Ayurveda are increasingly more visible in the fabric of today’s holistic health community.

Water use is an area that for many people happens without much thought.

Show me your house and I’ll tell you your problems.

Springtime is here and for many of us that means garden time. Like the honeybee flitting from flower to flower my mind flitters from task to task.

Are you aware that there are many toxins lurking in your home? I wasn’t, until my family moved into our new home.

Feng shui is the Chinese art of designing your space to be nourishing and harmonious in order to bring the abundance of wealth, success, love and even health into your life.

I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but let’s face it: we live in a toxic world.

We belong to a dynamic, interconnected energy structure — the web of life — and each life form deserves our close attention and deep respect.

Many of us are familiar with the term “sick building syndrome.”

Your food choices play an important part in creating a greener home and a greener community. Choosing locally grown food supports open space in your area.

A walk down the cleaning aisle of a supermarket offers a dazzling array of products all designed to get the job done quicker in a new and improved way. But at what cost to our health and our environment?

Many native plant species and animals are loosing their habitats. The state of Washington loses over 35,000 acres of wildlife habitat to housing and other development each year.

Cultivate a special garden space to grow your own healing essence remedies.

A visionary biologist says mushrooms are potent antiviral and antibacterial agents, as well as key boosters to the human immune system. They also might end up saving the Earth.

Essays of Simple Pleasures of Natural Living

While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore’s conference on the topic...

There are health hazards to using paraffin candles; why you should use beeswax instead.

Molten lava. Tree frogs. A fertile valley. Our green-blue marble in space. These are some images that come to mind when I think of Mother Earth.

espite little action on many critical issues at the recent World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the beginning of 2003 reveals fresh evidence of humanity’s capacity to respond rapidly to unprecedented environmental and social threats.

Holmes is the founder and director of the Farm School, a working dairy farm in Athol, Massachusetts, where middle-school kids from around New England spend three days and nights being real farmers.