Environment
- This Is Not A Rainforest!
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This is not a rainforest! A story wherein I reveal resistant and deliberate ignorance. ...
Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Dec 30 2012 - 9:20pm
- The Shocking Carbon Footprint of Compost
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Blog Post - Steve Savage - Jan 19 2016 - 1:04pm
- The Best Of Earth Observations 2012
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Our Earth observation capacity is growing. Not only are star satellite data providers such as NASA and ESA improving their high quality products, new economies such as China and Brazil invest parts of their new won wealth in remote sensing as well. ...
Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Jan 4 2013 - 5:04pm
- South Pole: Garbage Dump At The End Of The World
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When you think of the South Pole, you probably don't think of garbage. Yet according to a report commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) in Germany, the Antarctic is littered with leftovers from derelict experimental set-up ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2013 - 12:30pm
- Soil Building: The Key To Sustainable Farming
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Article - Steve Savage - Feb 12 2013 - 3:50pm
- The Hazardous Waste Of Solar Panels
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There is a good reason I was not a fan of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's nationalistic claim that we are in a 'race' to beat China in creating cheap solar panels. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2013 - 11:11am
- Aerated Sewage Lagoons Remove Most Natural Hormomes And Pharmaceuticals
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2012 was the 40th anniversary since President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Water Act and established regulations for the discharge of pollutants to waterways- and even lets the government declare water itself as a pollutant. Despite sewage treatment pl ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2013 - 3:02pm
- How To Make Siberia A Lot Less Scary
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Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could see permanently frozen ground thaw over a large area of Siberia, which would threaten to release carbon from soils and damage to natural and human environmen ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2013 - 1:31pm
- Logging- The Ecological Upside
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Unless we want continued runaway wildfires in dry regions like California, logging makes sense. But there is also an ecological upside, according to a new study. Retaining moderate levels of logging debris, also known as "slash," helped to both ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2013 - 10:41am
- Where's The Missing Oil From The BP Oil Spill? 'Dirty Blizzard' May Explain It
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The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill dumped more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico yet government assessments have been unable to account for all of it. Microbes likely processed most of the oil within months of the spill, but not ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2013 - 11:43am
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