If you’re serious about cutting your home energy costs, you might want to take a second look at your home landscaping. You may not be aware of it, but energy-efficient home landscaping can reduce your household’s energy consumption for heating and cooling by as much as 25 percent. Prop...

Houses leak most of their heat through the windows. Seals and weather-stripping on cheap and badly installed windows allow heat-robbing drafts, and regular glass is not a very good insulator. But the initial cost of quality energy-efficient windows can give one pause. Is it really worth the extra mo...

WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2007 (ENS) - A vast rainforest nature reserve has been newly set aside by the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, to encourage improved protection for the endangered bonobo, a great ape species that few people even know exists.Found only in the DRC, bonobos inhabit the ...

Here’s a good little video I found about why using bottled water is bad for the environment. I just don’t understand why people are obsessed with buying bottled water. Every time I go to the grocery store I swear 70% of the carts I see are filled with a case or two of bottled water. J...

By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2007 (ENS) - A top Bush administration appointee at the U.S. Interior Department could have benefitted financially from a decision she was involved with to remove a California fish from the federal endangered species list, according to a new report by the...

If you want to know more about the monstrosity of plastic bags, you have to delve to the very root… Plastics are petroleum products. They come from polymers by virtue of ‘biogeochemical’ manipulation. One thing that plastic bags and paper bags have in common is that they are both ...

NEW YORK, New York, November 27, 2007 (ENS) - Climate change could have a disastrous impact for the world’s poorest people and reverse any gains made in poverty reduction, nutrition, health and education, warns the annual United Nations Human Development Report released today.The world’...

WASHINGTON, DC, November 28, 2007 (ENS) - One in every four bird species in the United States is imperiled and needs conservation help to survive, finds a new assessment released today by two bird-centered organizations - the Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy.Their report WatchList 200...

As many of you may realize, protectingourenvironment.com has changed ownership. For now, this website will be run by a small group of passionate environmentalists. We will strive to pack this site with resources, information, news, and tips on every aspect of conservation. We will celebrate advance...