Articles by Katharine Wroth

Green lifestyle blamed for England's rodent woes

Britain is experiencing an explosion in its rat population, and green living is to blame.

Bike-sharing in Minneapolis, and other cycling news

Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean there’s no bike news out there. To wit! Minneapolis is working on a bike-share program called, appropriately enough, Nice Ride Minnesota. But its launch has been pushed back, reports the Minnesota Daily, due to “complications in securing the $1.75 million in federal funding necessary to implement the program.” Hm, […]

The rundown on eco-friendly ice melt

Shovel more, salt less.   In my family, perhaps in every family, there are stories so apocryphal that a simple phrase becomes a stand-in for the whole tale. One of ours is “salting the plants.” That refers to the time my mother, a high-school student prone to merry pranks, snuck in to her school dining […]

Canada loves ducks, fines oil company

"We are protective of our environment, of ducks, of conservation in this country. We have laws. We expect them to be abided by and there will be consequences for people who don't live up to the full extent of the Canadian conservation environmental laws."

-- Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice on the effort to fine Syncrude for tar-sands duck deaths