Environment

Standardization May Reduce Pollution

When it comes to environmental safeguarding, governments and public authorities spend most of their time in developing large programs. However by doing so, they often do not take into consideration minor concrete solutions that, if systematically taken, w ...

Article - Enrico Dorigo - Jul 4 2011 - 3:30pm

Seafood Ethics, Or Why I Don't Eat Squid (Part I)

Squid are often considered to be one of the more sustainable seafood choices. Squid grow like weeds, right? They have short life cycles, make tons of babies, and adapt easily to changing environments. It's like eating dandelions. Only not. ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jun 4 2011 - 11:12pm

Strawberries, oats, wheat, potatoes, sugarbeets, rape seed are going to give poor crops in central europe because of poor rain fall and dry conditions

Strawberries are going to be smaller and other crops with low yields due to poor rains and high temperature is it true for most of europe I read this news in a news paper here in europe. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 3 2011 - 2:58pm

Seafood Ethics, Or Why I Don't Eat Squid (Part II)

Back in April, a well-known fisheries biologist named Ray Hillborn published an op-ed in the New York Times that was titled (by the editors, not Hillborn) " Let Us Eat Fish." The gist of it was: our fisheries are doing great, so chow down on seaf ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jun 4 2011 - 11:52pm

19th European Union Biomass conference 2011 at Berlin

Starting from 1982 when I attended 2nd EU biomass conference in Berlin ICC for the first time till this 19th EU in a span of 30 years Biomass has received greater interest from EU and greater acceptance. In the present conference 6th to 10th June at Berlin ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 7 2011 - 11:49pm

Maybe Newton And Darwin Can Solve Climate Change

"Physicists seek simplicity in universal laws. Ecologists revel in complex interdependencies. Together, these two approaches may help solve the problems of global warming," wrote John Harte, professor at Berkeley, in Physics Today. Republicans ar ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 10 2011 - 11:09am

Culture War- Recycled Cardboard Packaging Contaminates Food

Recycling is good, we are told, though in actuality government recycling has been nothing except an expensive waste, with landfills for recycled materials as big as landfills for regular garbage. Now it turns out recycled packaging may be risking our healt ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2011 - 2:25pm

Defining Dallas-- The Unexpected Life of Snakes

I have just come in from Third Thursday at Trinity River Audubon Center.  The anticipated speaker canceled and there were families there who wanted a program, so I did the "Turtle Talk" and then took them out for turtle watching and a nature hike ...

Blog Post - Mel. White - Jun 16 2011 - 10:55pm

Arctic Ice June 2011

Arctic Ice June 2011 The sun is the main driver of climate and weather.  The Arctic solar year could be plotted as a graph of the angle of the sun relative to the horizon,  negative in winter and positive in summer.  The graph would be a very neat wavefor ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 18 2011 - 8:37pm

Defining Dallas: Trinity River Audubon Center after dark

One of the most engaging things about a landscape is how it changes after dark.  I haven't been at TRAC very often after sundown, but last night I was in an Amphibian Watch training program and to count frogs, you have to wait until the sun goes down. ...

Blog Post - Mel. White - Jun 18 2011 - 9:00pm