The Environmental Concerns of the Livestock Industry The United States leads the way in a global trend toward increased meat consumption. The average American consumes almost twice his or her own body weight in meat every year. World mea...

The world's scientific experts agree that industrial and land use activities are having an adverse impact on our climate. Burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gasoline creates global warming pollution that acts as the glass in a greenhouse, reflecting heat back toward the Earth and warming...

The greenhouse effect, as defined in the dictionary, is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. Even thoug...

Hertford Seminars in Regulation for the Regulatory Policy Institute Tackling Global Warming: Market Instruments or Regulatory Solutions OXERA Environmental Ltd Tel: + 44 (0) 1865 251142, Fax: + 44 (0) 1865 204606 October 2nd 1998 Introduction Global warming is now officially recognised. Never...