Environment
- Good News For Environmentalists: Waters May Be More Polluted Than Science Shows
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Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2015 - 11:41am
- In Australia, Cities Contain More Threatened Species Than Rural Areas
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Though 99.9999% of species that have gone extinct have never actually been identified, it is common to read claims that we are facing a catastrophic species extinction crisis. It's best to take such talk with a grain of salt, because conservationists ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2015 - 8:00am
- PCB Exposure In Moms Linked To Poor Vaccine Response In Babies By Environmentalists
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Early life exposures to toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT dampen an infant's response to the tuberculosis vaccine, according to a new study. DDT? Banned over 40 years ago but so safe the United States EPA creates guidelines for other countries to ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2015 - 8:51am
- Heptachlor Epoxide Pesticide In Milk Decades Ago Linked To Parkinson's Disease
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A pesticide called heptachlor epoxide and used in 1970s was found in milk at that time- and it being linked to Parkinson's disease now, in a paper in Neurology. ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2015 - 7:00am
- Fracking Could Lead To Generation Of Toxic Metal Wastewater
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Hydraulic fracturing is an important technological advance in the extraction of natural gas and petroleum from black shales, but wastewater produced along with shale gas and petroleum following fracking is extremely saline and contains high concentrations ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2015 - 4:00pm
- Composting Food Waste: Good For Self-Identification And Maybe For The Environment
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In the 1980s, the recycling debate was all the rage, with arguments for and against government doing it. The argument against government doing it was predictable; government is inefficient and expensive and the landfills waiting for a recycling list that ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2015 - 6:30am
- Organic Soils Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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It's no secret that the organic growing process is harder on the environment, with more toxic pesticides, less efficient use of the land, and lower yields, but some practices are exceptionally harmful, like growing crops in organic (peat) soil. When ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2015 - 12:34pm
- Organic Food Pitfall: Manure Elevates Nitrogen Accumulation And Loss
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Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, and nitrogen fertilization and is often used in agriculture in the developing world and in organic process farming in wealthy countries. But organic farmers have to worry about yield also, and that has l ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2016 - 3:39pm
- Regulations, Liabilities Limit Prescribed Fire Use For Brush Control
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Fire use for brush control is nature's way of keeping the ecosystem thriving but as the 20th century progressed, natural methods gave way to environmental lobbying and legal bullying. California, which led the nation in environmental activism, has se ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2016 - 12:52pm
- Like Not Having The Next Ice Age? Thank Global Warming
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Though 90,000 out of every 100,000 years in recent geological cycles have been Ice Ages, and it has been 12,000 years since the last one, a new glacial inception hasn't happened. That's because humanity has become a geological force that is able ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 3:00pm
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