Links to Environmentally-conscious World Wide Web sites. From 1992 to 1994, close to 36 million people received water from systems violating EPA drinking water standards, and more than 80 million from systems violating monitoring and reporting rules. Approximately half the state of Maine, some 10.5 million acres, the largest forest in the Eastern US, is owned by paper companies.
Mechanical harvesters can snip as many trees an hour as a chain saw crew used to fell in a day.
More than 126 countries, but not the US, have ratified the UN Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992. The study recommends the promotion of genetic diversity within species in order to promote robustness of individual species. Ecosystems with a wide variety of species appear better able to withstand environmental disturbances. Since the 1600s scientists have documented 484 animal and 654 plant species extinctions. Use the Sierra Club's Keyword Search engine to find information from their Web and Gopher sites.