Dear EarthTalk: The soil beneath our feet is a critical resource we often take for granted. But I have heard that there are many threats to soil. What are they and how do we make things right? [...]

There’s more to the TV-to-DVD world than old episodes of M*A*S*H and the dozen or so Law and Order spin-offs. From WGBH and the UK comes Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act. This British crime drama stars Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren (The Queen) as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison. Tennison must fine Sallie Sturdy, a 14-year-old [...]

Dear EarthTalk: I want to give my baby fresh, organic food but I don’t have the time to make her special meals. What options are out there? [...]

The Order of the Phoenix follows Harry Potter through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The game takes place throughout the school — which is very large. At the beginning of the game, as in the movie, Harry is supposed to go before the Ministry of Magic to cast a spell [...]

Fresh off the BBC America comes “Cracker: A New Terror,” starring the incredibly talented Robbie Coltrane. Coltrane, of Harry Potter fame, plays Dr. Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald, an incredibly brilliant but deeply flawed forensic psychologist returning to England after years in Australia to solve a mysterious rash of random murders. This feature-length DVD includes a 45-minute [...]

Certainly I have some personal stake in the health and safety of the 9/11 emergency responders.
But so does everyone else. 9/11 was a day where we saw the worst of people and the best of people. In the backs of the minds of cops and firemen, they knew the stuff they were breathing in was [...]

The final day of a photo essay explaining the health perils of the 9/11 rescuers.

Day four of a five day photo essay explaining the health perils of the 9/11 rescuers.

Day three of a five day photo essay explaining the health perils of the 9/11 rescuers.

Day two of a five day photo essay explaining the health perils of the 9/11 rescuers.

Today, media outlets around the world are sharing memorials, war news, timelines and conspiracy theories with you.
They’re going back to September 11, 2001 and discussing their coverage of the day’s events, showing an airplane crashing into a building so that people can watch someone they love die, like a dear friend who is simply tired [...]

Dear EarthTalk: What would be the feasibility of having hybrid cars run on E85 or biodiesel? Wouldn’t this solve multiple problems? –Bob Pendergrass, Broken Arrow, [...]

The story of Jeanne D’Arc, based loosely on Joan of Arc, starts with the background information that five magical armlets were created in the past to defeat a horde of demons. In the Hundred Year War between France and England, one of the original five enabled a demon to possess the king of England to [...]

The worst thing about contests and sweepstakes is that we hear promise after promise, and just know we have no chance.
Well we’re not giving away a million dollars, but we have a way for you to win a free DVD set. We’re giving away five copies of the new Cinema 16 DVD set, a collection [...]

Okay all you fashion lovers. It’s fall, the most exciting time of year. The runways are dripping with premonitions of what the stylish people will be wearing.
The great thing about this season is that it is full of flashbacks to the 80s, 40s and 30s. This is a combination of traditional elements that are done [...]

Layla Love may be categorized as an up and coming artist for her photography, but to those who know her past, she better seen as a warrior. Using her camera as therapy after her tumultuous upbringing during which Love has been raped, beaten and diagnosed with a neurological movement disorder, her art is understatedly hard-fought.
Love’s [...]

Baggy clothes are out.

I had a chance to sample Jack’s Pumpkin Space Ale this week. It’s a mainstream fall ale put out by Anheuser-Busch, and before you say “ew, I bet it tastes like Busch Light,” keep in mind that even Blue Moon is brewed by Coors.
“For adults who’ve never tried a pumpkin beer before, we’d encourage them [...]

The latest PC eye candy from Eidos, “Infernal” pits you as Ryan Lennox, a “renegade angel recruited by Hell to restore the balance between good and evil.”
The game is getting mediocre reviews at best, mostly because of a feeling of “been done” from reviewers, and I can’t exactly blame them. It’s a good versus evil [...]

Do you feel like an encyclopedia should have a point of view? Are you dismayed by the fact that evolution is taught in schools, and creationism is not? Good news, brother! The Christian Right has set up a repository of knowledge just for you: Conservapedia, whose motto is, “the truth shall set you free.”
Conservapedia is [...]

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