Environment

How Wrong Is The Latest "Dirty Dozen" List?

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Article - Steve Savage - Mar 8 2017 - 5:43pm

Microplastic Pollution- Not Just For Oceans Any More

Researchers have detected microplastic pollution- a concern in oceans because small bits of plastic can be harmful to fish and birds that feed on plankton or other small waterborne organisms  - in one of Western Europe's largest lakes, Lake Geneva, i ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2013 - 11:00am

The Arctic's Warming Islands

The Arctic's Warming Islands ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 2 2013 - 12:07pm

Approaching Environmentalism In Africa

  Much like in Frank Herbert’s "Dune", a science-fiction epic about characters attempting to rule a planet torn apart by conflict, the issue of balancing desires for resources, and their impact on people, faces much of Africa today. The planet t ...

Article - Omar Sow - May 29 2013 - 4:09pm

New Arctic- New Discoveries

New Arctic- New Discoveries The world is warming, but the Arctic is warming fastest.  The Arctic of today is not the Arctic which 18th or 19th century explorers knew.  Where ships were once likely to be crushed in heavy ice there is now often no ice in su ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 30 2013 - 12:49pm

Fertilization Effect: Elevated Carbon Dioxide Has Made Arid Regions Greener

If you live in an arid region, you know keeping it green is an environmentally stressful activity. But some arid regions have been getting greener on their own and scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observ ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2013 - 12:08pm

Serial Blind-Spot For Organic Advocates

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Article - Steve Savage - Jun 13 2013 - 10:54pm

Marijuana Farm Rampant Pesticides Threaten Fishers In The Southern Sierra Nevada

Rat poison used for marijuana fields is killing fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada, according to a new paper.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2013 - 9:32am

Hunting Success Follows Conservation Success

There was a period of time when hunters were the greatest conservationists.  Think President Teddy Roosevelt, who evangelized national parks and setting aside wilderness for the public. Later, environmentalism became an occupation for urbanites and they di ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2013 - 4:39pm

Reducing The Impact Of Agriculture On Climate Change

While America has dramatically dematerialized its environmental footprint in recent decades, producing far more food on far less land than 30 years ago, that's not true for the rest of the world.  Heavy financial incentives in places like Europe- whi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2013 - 10:23am