Jezebel: Environment

Award-Winning Female Conservationist Says Women 'Have To Work Ten Times Harder'

Anna North — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:10:00 EST

Today the National Geographic Society announced the recipient of the 10,000th grant it's given in its 123-year history: 32-year-old conservation biologist Krithi Karanth. We spoke with Dr. Karanth about her work, and about what it's like to be a female scientist both in the US and her native India. More »

New Sexual Orientation Study Suggests You Were Born This Gay

Carolyn Yates — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EDT

Sexual orientation and "gender conformity" in women are genetic traits, according to a study released by researchers from Queen Mary, University of London. More »

The Butterflies Are Dying

Anna North — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:07:00 EDT

Farmers' new, extremely effective methods of killing milkweed are having an unintended effect — a decline in the population of monarch butterflies, which lay their eggs on the weed. Also at risk are rainbows, ponies, shooting stars, and the entire oeuvre of Lisa Frank. More »

Autism Linked To Moms' Antidepressant Use

Anna North — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:00:00 EDT

New research suggests that environmental factors may play a much bigger role in autism than previously believed — and one culprit may be antidepressants. More »

Angry Kentuckians Go After Ashley Judd's Breasts

Anna North — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:55:00 EDT

Ashley Judd managed to piss off both coal miners and golf course developers in a speech last month — and they've responded with topless posters of the actress. More »

Swishing Party: Not What It Sounds Like

Sadie Stein — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST

Picturing Roger De Bris key-swapping with canapes? Me too. But think less swish, more swap: More »

The Great Danes

Anna Holmes — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:10:00 EST

[Copenhagen, December 8. Image via Getty]

Deal Of The Century

Anna Holmes — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:10:00 EST

[Copenhagen, December 7. Image via Getty]

30% Less Meat Healthier For Hearts, Planet

Anna North — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:20:00 EST

In industrialized countries, cutting meat consumption by just 30% would not only reduce greenhouse gases but also cut heart disease deaths by 17%. Tofurky, anyone? [Reuters] More »

Chemicals In Plastic Change How Boys Play

Anna North — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:30:00 EST

Scientists already knew that certain chemicals found in plastics, called phthalates, could damage boys' genitals. Now a study shows they also make boys less interested in stereotypically male toys. More »

Death Kneels

Anna Holmes — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:10:00 EST

[Barcelona, November 2. Image via Getty]

How Is Climate Change Affecting Women in West Africa?

LatoyaPeterson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:20:00 EDT

Gendered effects of climate change? Women and girls in Togo are being disproportionately affected due to loss of work in the agricultural sector, and the increased chore load for tasks like gathering firewood and searching for clean water. [VOA News] More »

Marie Claire's Green Diet Misses The Big Picture

LatoyaPeterson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:00:00 EDT

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Billed as "a healthy, eco-friendly action plan suitable for every budget and commitment level," reading through "The Girl's Guide to Eating Green" made me realize how much the conversation about sustainable food and living stalls at the same points. More »

Countereatuitive

Anna North — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:40:00 EDT

Utne reports that environmentalists say eating some grass-fed meat is actually better for the environment than being a vegetarian, because it encourages more raising of "pasture-based livestock," which is good for soil and plants. [Utne Reader] More »

When A Fashionista Turns On Fashion

Sadie Stein — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:20:00 EDT

"By snapping up rack after rack of cheap, mass-made clothing, we're making ourselves all look alike, trashing the planet, and mistreating our fellow humans." Well, when a person puts it like that, it sounds bad! More »

Green Eggs & Ham: What Meat Is Best For The Environment?

Anna North — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:20:00 EDT

It's obvious every time we write a post on vegetarianism: lots of people love meat. But are some meats better for the planet than others? And what about the half-vegetarian's flesh of choice, fish? More »

Do Women Bear The Burdens Of Ethical Eating?

Anna North — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EDT

In Salon this weekend, Siobhan Phillips described the month she and her husband spent eating "ethically." Her experiment got us thinking about whether the burdens of a sustainable diet fall disproportionately on women. More »

Will The Apocalypse Bring Us Closer? Or, Why I Love My Town

Anna North — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Will the end of cheap oil bring us closer to our communities? An article in this month's Elle got me thinking about that, and about my community, which happens to be Iowa City. More »

Cheezburger Sez: I'z In Yr Belly, Ruinin Yr Planet

Anna North — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:20:00 EDT

Today in science that pisses us off: being "fat" is bad for the environment. More »

Which Birth Control Is Best For Fish?

Anna North — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:30:00 EST

Get your mind out of the pond — we're just talking about The Green Lantern's claim that birth control pills may be harming fish. Want to be ichthyoid-friendly? Use condoms. [Slate] More »

Your Long-Distance Relationship Is Ruining The Planet

Sadie Stein — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:00:00 EST

Today, Slate's environmental column tells you that if you're dating from afar, you should be wracked with guilt: dating locally is much more sustainable. The emotional end? That's your selfish problem. More »

(Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies

Sadie Stein — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:20:00 EST

Screw vintage. The alleged new nostalgia is for "a much earlier epoch: the Pleistocene, when humans lived in small hunter-gatherer groups and didn’t worry about high cholesterol." More »

Why Takeout Is Evil...And Other Stuff to Feel Guilty About

Sadie Stein — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:40:00 EST

So, takeout makes for a lot of environmentally-unfriendly plastic. But cooking for one results in wasted food. Oh noes! What's the guilty eater to do? In today's "Green Lantern" column, Slate writer Jacob Leibenluft takes on to-go's carbon footprint. Can we justify it in these greening times? More to the point, can we do so and sleep at night? More »

Privileged Kids Say The Darndest Things! The New Junior Eco-Police

Sadie Stein — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

As a child who had all the self-righteous conviction of a young Ingrid Newkirk and routinely lectured both children and adults on the dangers of meanness, smoking and reading Once Upon A Potty, I feel uniquely qualified to comment on incredibly annoying children who parrot back their parents' convictions while the adults look on in smug pride. The Times describes the new phenomenon of "eco-kids," tots who match around delivering sermons, ostentatiously turning off lights and saying things like, "every day is Earth Day." More »

Two new studies show that the average citizen...

Jessica — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:45:00 EST

Two new studies show that the average citizen is starting to get on the pro-environment bandwagon. Market research firm KPMG found that 88% of holiday shoppers describe themselves as "very concerned" about the environment. According to MediaPost, "74% say they buy environmentally friendly products, 60% say they are willing to pay more for such items, and 55% report making a special effort to patronize retailers with a "green" reputation." The second study comes out of Granada. Social psychologists have found that housewives are more ecologically conscious than college students. The researchers found that the most important fuel behind recycling is a feeling of moral or ethical obligation towards the environment. One question though: why the ef did they choose to contrast housewives and college students specifically? Why not compare electricians and lawyers? Zookeepers and hair dressers? It's weird! [MediaPost, EurekAlert] More »

They Don't Call It The 'Graveyard Shift' For Nothing

Anna Holmes — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:00:00 EDT

Why does Gisele Bundchen look so sad in the print advertisements for YSL's fall collection? Maybe because working the night-shift for photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadini may put her at a bigger risk for breast cancer. In this week's issue of The New Yorker, writer David Owen reports on environmental pollution of a slightly-different sort than the type assailed by Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David: that coming from the glare of the street lamps and commercial floodlights most of us have never lived without. In addition to interviewing professional and amateur astronomers — did you know that in Iraq and Iran astronomy is an especially-popular hobby among girls and young women? — about the effect that industrialization has wreaked on humanity's appreciation of a clear, star-stippled night sky, Owen spoke to epidemiologist Richard Stevens, who suggests there may be a link between cancer and "the 'circadian disruption' of hormones caused by artificial lighting." More »