The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are worried that the H1N1 virus or swine flu may be responsible for anywhere from 30,000 to 90,000 deaths this winter. Estimates from the World Health Organization include projections of 1 in 3 people becoming infected before the expected pandemic runs its course to the tune of about two ...

Must-see award-winning documentary The Cove stirs up dark waters around dolphin capture and slaughter. Action-packed dolphin doc The Cove follows activists as they attempt to infiltrate a highly guarded cove in Taji, Japan where more than 20,000 dolphins a year are caught and killed for their mercury contaminated meat (often passed off as whale ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is finally getting some attention from the scientific community. We talked about the island of trash in a previous post, outlining its massive size (twice the size of Texas by some estimates) and its unknown origins. Today, researchers will embark on a mission to uncover the mystery behind the giant convergence of ...

St.Louis Missouri will host the annual Farm Aid concert to benefit American farmers on October 4th. Backed by board of directors members and core performers like Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Neil Young and John Mellencamp, Farm Aid 2009 promises to be a rootin' tootin' good time. As the longest-running benefit concert series, Farm Aid has ...

Green star and all around Hollywood good guy Matt Damon is known for his charitable ways. As one of the founders of Not On Our Watch (along with pals George Clooney and Brad Pitt), Matt and co. put their star power behind humanitarian assistance  for the vulnerable, marginalized and displaced. He's also a board member of Tonic (formerly ...

Greenpeace activists ‘defaced’ Mount Rushmore yesterday by hanging a giant protest banner next to the face of Abraham Lincoln. The banner, featuring President Obama’s face, read “America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians. Stop Global Warming. Three Greenpeace members scaled the South Dakota monument at about noon yesterday, using existing anchors ...

The sad onslaught of recent Hollywood funerals for Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon and Billy Mays has made it hard not to think about end of life plans and the high environmental and monetary costs of conventional funerals. With average funeral costs hitting upwards of $8,000, regular folks are faced with lots of costly and ...

A new Rhode Island Hospital study has found a link between nitrates in our food and our environment and deaths from diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. Published in the journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, the study led by Dr. Suzanne de la Monte of RI Hospital shows trends towards increased mortality rates as a result of ...

In a shocking ruling, the US Supreme Court has given a mining company the green (or antigreen) light to dump 4.5 million tons of toxic waste into an Alaskan lake. The court's decision will allow gold mining company Coeur Alaska Inc. to dump 4.5 million tons of waste into Lower Slate Lake - a decision that the courts, the mining company and ...

A couple of UK scientists have gone on record in book form to denounce popular ''scare stories'' about the environment and human health. A new book Global Warming And Other Bollocks: The Truth About All Those Science Scare Stories, by professor of anaesthetics at London University, Stanley Feldman, and Vincent Marks, a former professor of ...