Environment

Are Healthy Buildings Built On Lies?

The fad du jour (and I defy you to find a non- du jour day) is something that sounds like an absolute win-win. It has all the correct buzzwords—green, sustainable, environmentally friendly, endocrine disruptors, bioaccumulation. And many more. Today it ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Jul 16 2014 - 10:29pm

Triazole Fungicides Linked To Fungal Drug Resistance In UK

Crop spraying on British farms could be aiding a life-threatening fungus suffered by tens of thousand of people in the UK each year. New research by British and Dutch scientists has found that Aspergillus – a common fungus that attacks the lungs and is fo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 9:30pm

Man-Made Chemicals Not A Factor In Hawaiian Turtle Tumors

For nearly four decades, some have suspected that persistent organic pollutants-  a large group of man-made chemicals that, as their name indicates, persist in the environment- contributed to a green turtle's susceptibility to the virus that causes f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 1:45pm

DOSS Dispersant From Deepwater Horizon Spill Persists For Four Years

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico was, to-date, the largest accidental release of oil into the ocean. 210 million gallons issued from the blown-out well. In an attempt to prevent vast quantities of oil from fouling beaches and mars ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 12:30pm

Dematerialization: Existing Cropland Could Feed Billions More

Despite decades of concern about a looming population bomb and mass starvation, American agriculture has instead 'dematerialized' in a material world: using science, farmers are now feeding more people on less land than ever thought possible. If ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 3:44pm

Science 2.0: Big Data And Conservation Efforts

Though there is a deluge of new information about the diversity and distribution of plants and animals around the globe, conservation efforts outside government science remain very firmly trapped in a 1980s world of fundraising and brochures and cultural ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2014 - 7:58pm

Virtual Steak: Beef Is 10X More Environmentally Costly Than Other Meat, Says Study

Easy metrics like 'it takes a gallon of gas to make a pound of beef' or 'it takes 140 liters of water to make a cup of coffee' get mainstream media because they are outrageous. They are outrageous because they are completely wrong. Wha ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 5:30am

Neonicotinoids Found In Nine Midwest Rivers-- USGS Study

Insecticides that behave like nicotine, known as neonicotinoids, became popular in the late 1990s as replacements for more toxic products. They have been effective but like all products there is concern about ongoing environmental effects. The U.S. Enviro ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2014 - 10:27pm

Climate Change May Slow Down The Agriculture Boom

It's no secret that the last few decades have seen a whirlwind of improvements in agricultural science. Where the world once feared the future of Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren, with mass starvations and forced sterilization, we now have so much food ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2014 - 1:30pm

Prehistoric Dairy Farming At Extreme Latitudes

Before there was a war on wheat and a war on sugar, there was a war on dairy products. Nutritionists need science insight the most and are least likely to want it, they instead listen to Yogic flying instructors, actresses and Food Babes at conferences em ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 9:04pm