Nature

Eighteen Kaiser Permanente facilities have been recognized for their environmental performance, particularly in the areas of green building and eco-friendly purchasing policies. Read More

By modifying some of its processes, Olin Corporation’s Niagara Falls plant eliminated a 16,500-gallon-per-day waste discharge. As project manager Tom Muka explains, the old system was just money down the drain. By Emily Rabin Read More

Scientists in the US have produced a CFC-free and super-efficient prototype refrigeration system that uses electricity to "push" heat toward one end of the circuit, cooling the other end. Read More

Health care giant Baxter Healthcare Corp. has become the first medical supplier to be deemed a "Champion for Change" in the Hospitals for a Healthy Environment program, a landmark initiative to improve environmental performance in health care. Read More

The Indian government and the United Nations Environment Program have launched a new initiative aimed at accelerating the phase-out of ozone-damaging chemicals across India, which includes a pledge by the country’s top four manufacturers of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to introduce cleaner production technologies. Read More

A wild mustard plant that grows only in the Austrian Alps naturally accumulates large amounts of metals in its tissues. This tiny plant may be the key to cleaning up large areas contaminated by heavy metals from industrial production. Read More

An Indiana farm is the showcase for a new method of treating pig waste, which leaves virtually no trace of pollution or odor and costs less than current methods both to install and run. Read More

Sure, they’re designed to fly fast and kill swiftly, but that doesn’t mean they have to cost a lot to produce or clean up after. In a multimillion-dollar project, the Army has come up with a new bullet said to be just as deadly as the old lead-based one but cleaner for the Earth. Read More

Scientists have developed a device that can remove about 70% of pollutants from car exhaust fumes and produces carbon that can be made into diamonds, New Scientist magazine said yesterday. Read More

New fears were raised today in the wake of last week’s garbage slide and fire at the Payatas garbage dump in the northern Manila suburb of Quezon City which has claimed 193 lives and left 760 others missing and presumed dead: According to health monitors, the rotting mountain of trash is polluting the reservoir behind La Mesa dam, the source of drinking water for Metro Manila's 10 million residents. Read More