Nature

International Paper, The Nature Conservancy, and The Conservation Fund have reached an agreement to protect 218,000 acres of forestlands across ten states in the single largest private land conservation sale in the history of the South, and one of the largest in the U.S. Read More

The committed staff at Ecoprint, an innovator in environmentally preferable printing processes, share the best practices that have made their company a success. By Susan Nickbarg Read More

If government policies won't lead to aggressive action on climate change, maybe the insurance industry will. Read More

Microsoft, along with Kaiser Permanente, Crabtree and Evelyn, and others, have joined the fast-growing ranks of major corporations demonstrating concern about the environmental health impacts of their products or packaging by phasing out PVC plastic (polyvinyl chloride or vinyl). Read More

An electro-deposition basecoat known as e-coating that substantially reduces both volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has been developed by Mazda Motor Corp., a major Japanese automaker. Read More

The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association has announced that it will take voluntary steps to reduce concentrations of volatile organic compounds inside vehicles. Read More

The new inventory shows that the amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment by reporting facilities continues to decline, with total reductions of 42% since 1998 and a 6% decrease from 2002 to 2003. Read More

Researchers of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan have succeeded in developing an organotin-free substance for ship paint that does not leach out any organometallic compounds into the surrounding seawater. Read More

Faced with a shrinking supply of petroleum wax and a rise in woodburning fireplace restrictions by air quality districts in the American West, Duraflame's product development team set out this past year to determine how to make the next generation of manufactured firelogs. Read More

Two independent studies funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the State of California respectively, reveal that obsolete or non-working mobile phones qualify as hazardous waste even with their batteries removed. Read More