Environment

Sue And Settle Environmental Attorneys Are Having A Harder Time At EPA

The days when environmental litigation groups like Earthjustice and Farmworker Justice had friendly voices in EPA and the White House seem like two years in the past. Because they are two years in the past. Where once environmental groups could write entir ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 30 2018 - 1:16pm

California Judge Denies Trial Lawyer Efforts To Get A Glyphosate Warning Label

A federal judge's recent discussion about why glyphosate should not have a warning label in California, despite the efforts of trial lawyers and the environmental groups they pay, not only shows the label would have no scientific validity, it calls i ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2018 - 3:45pm

Global Climatic Event Leads To New Geologic Time Scale, The Late Holocene Meghalayan Age

Around 2,200 B.C, agricultural societies around the world experienced an abrupt cooling and a critical mega-drought. Humans had been progressing nicely since the end of the last Ice Age, and suddenly this cooling, and accompanying droughts, forced the coll ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2018 - 8:45am

Cover Crops Enhance Soil Quality- At A Cost

Replacing fallow lands with cover crops in order to increase the levels of carbon and soil nitrogen  also enhances its quality and mitigates nitrate leaching in an agricultural land, according to a new analysis.  After collecting data for ten years, result ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2018 - 4:20pm

Tropical Forest Conservation Is A Rich Country Solution Paid For By Poor Indigenous People

In ireland 100 years ago, 1 percent of the island was forest, now it is 11 percent, and Irish people have no problem with food. They even grow Spruce, which is not native, to craft and sell furniture. Given that developed countries have lots of forest now ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2018 - 2:26pm

China Is Undertaking The 'Riskiest Environmental Project In History'

While churnalism sites like Gizmodo manufacture culture wars in order to promote fear and doubt about American science and medicine. China is engaging in actual risky behavior with no media attention from clickbait sites.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 3:27pm

Sea Level Rise Threatens UK Coastal Wetlands By 2100

A new analysis estimates that if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, sea-level rise will endanger coastal wetlands across the United Kingdom. That conclusion was derived by estimating salt-marsh vulnerability using the geological record of past los ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2018 - 5:54pm

Bees: It's The Viruses That Are The Problem

While environmentalists raise millions of dollars insisting they will get targeted pesticides (e.g. neonicotinoids) banned to save bees that aren't really in peril, science is looking at things which do actually put bees at risk. At the top of the li ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2018 - 10:16am

Marine Litter: The Public Mistakenly Trusts Environmental Groups, And That Impedes Progress

Across Europe, 95 percent of people claim to have seen seen litter when they visited the coast- yet they say they don't litter. And they don't trust scientists, corporations or government to solve it, which leaves environmentalists who don't ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2018 - 7:00am

How Do You Estimate The Economic Value Of A Clean Beach?

Millions of Americans head outdoors in the summer, whether for a day at a nearby lake or a monthlong road trip. For environmental economists like me, decisions by vacationers and outdoor recreators offer clues to a challenging puzzle: estimating what envi ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 24 2018 - 7:38am