WellnessAid/Environment

Photo Contest Winners From Wired.com

Natalia

Our photo contests have become so popular that we thought we'd take a minute to look back at our favorite winners so far, from Holga, to Summer, to Transportation. The winners were selected by readers' votes over a two-week period of grueling competition. Enjoy!

Cats and Dogs Reduce Risk of Cancer

Fiona

Pets are very important to many people with cats and dogs often talked about as members of the familly. This research shows that people that own pets such as cats and dogs are less likely to develop cancer.

Health Facilities Flush Estimated 250M Pounds of Drugs a Year

LkPow

Hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into drinking water, according to an ongoing investigation.

Fifty Ways to Help the Planet

Neatly

Check out these fifty strategies that each of us can do every day to make oue planet a better place. Some of these things are what everyone knows. Other things are quite unexpected.

Video: Discovery Channel Planet Earth Time Lapse - The Album Leaf

Galen

This is an episode from a series of time lapse videos taken from the revolutionary documentary "Planet Earth" on the Discovery Channel. "This is your world. Prepare to see it as never before." The Album leaf song is entitled "The Outer Banks".

Video: Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe?

LkPow

A nice short clip from MSNBC about water bottles and leeching chemicals. Its nice to know that there are some things we can do to avoid potential risk. The main take-away is to avoid plastic bottles marked with a "3," 6," or "7" in the plastic recycling triangle stamped on the container.

Coca-Cola Urged to Close an Indian Plant to Save Water

Awakened

A leading environmental research group based in New Delhi has asked Coca-Cola to consider shutting down a bottling plant in the drought-stricken state of Rajasthan, saying that the plant is depleting scarce water supplies.

AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water

Galen

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Photo: One of the Most Air Polluted Places - Sauron's Kingdom - Moscow

KitKat

This picture speaks for itself, No explanations needed - just have a look. Would you like to live there?

Web Guru Fights Info Pollution

Grinch

E-mail, the net, weblogs, instant messaging, text messaging, multi-media messaging... the list of ways to communicate electronically in the 21st Century is growing. Computers are starting to control us, and it is time to "rule the computer and put it back in its place". How to do that?

Pollution-Busting Plants

LkPow

Plants are a good method for remediating soil and water. Even in their natural state, such trees and plants absorb environmental contaminants and break them down into harmless components—all with the power of the sun. To boost this natural process, researchers are creating new type of plants.

Photos: The World's Most Polluted River

Healer

It was once a gently flowing river, where fishermen cast their nets, sea birds came to feed and natural beauty left visitors spellbound. Today, the river is in crisis, choked by the domestic waste of nine million people and thick with the cast-off from hundreds of factories. Is this how the whole world will look in near future. We've got to stop and do something about this now. Tomorrow is too late...

Dolphin Therapy: Recreation or Medicine?

Neatly

Doctors at the Human Dolphin Therapy Center in Miami believe the highly intelligent creatures have the extraordinary ability to help treat children with autism, Down syndrome and other neurological and movement disorders.

Photo: Germany's Polar Bear Cub

Neatly

Female polar bear Vera carries one of its cubs in an enclosure at the zoo in Nuremberg. A cub had been "rescued" by zookeepers after mother, Vera, showed signs of rejecting her offspring.

Photos: Surviving Darfur – The Tragedy of Sudan

Fiona

More than 50,000 people have been killed by violence, hunger, and disease in the past year in Western Sudan. For the survivors, every day is a struggle for food, shelter, and medicine.