Miles Benson

Miles Benson is a correspondent for Link TV's Earth Focus. He has a distinguished career as a daily print journalist. From 1969 till his retirement in 2005, was a correspondent for the Newhouse Newspaper group, which included 30 daily newspapers. He covered the US Congress for 15 years and then the White House for 16 years, wrote a weekly political column and covered national politics and public policy.

Elephant Calves

Elephant Calves

Earth Focus

Kiss The Elephants Goodbye

The wholesale slaughter of African elephants, interrupted briefly by international law late in the 20th century, is back.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere

Earth Focus

Climate Change: Numbers, Trends and Reality

The economic impact of climate change driven by global warming is both genuine and impossible to calculate.

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honeybees1

Earth Focus

Neonicotinoids: Poison Is Big Business

There is an environmental stain spreading across the United States and around the globe.

Chemicals rinsing wood

Chemicals rinsing wood

Earth Focus

Our Unbalanced Chemical Burden

Today 84,000 chemicals are in commercial use in manufacturing and agriculture.

Coal loaded on a train

Coal loaded on a train

Earth Focus

Coal Ash: Both Beneficial and Poisonous?

We still casually manufactures coal ash in jaw-dropping volumes.