Environment
- What is corruption in Global perspective
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If one amasses wealth at the expense of innocent people circumventing the law to their advantage because masses do not have resources or knowhow or infrastructure or man power to make money through of web of legal or illegal channels its corruption in econ ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 19 2011 - 6:52am
- Defining Dallas: Symptoms of Pond Mortality
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The drought continues and our ponds shrink at Trinity River Audubon Center. I'm torn between fascination about the process and worried for the life and diversity that we've worked so hard to nurture. The floodplain ponds will come back with th ...
Blog Post - Mel. White - Aug 22 2011 - 2:42pm
- Defining Dallas: Drought and the Forest
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We got a tenth of an inch of rain yesterday-- such a microscopic amount. The pond levels are down five feet from normal. It's much less than the water level drop in areas like Lake Travis in Austin, but that's still drastic. I've been moni ...
Blog Post - Mel. White - Aug 25 2011 - 2:04pm
- Organic Food- What It Means And The List Of Artificial Ingredients Allowed
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Given an aggressive public relations campaign designed to obscure facts about the organic food industry, we are clarifying what an 'organic' label means and does not mean. To be certified 'organic' a producer needs to prepare documentat ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2012 - 6:46am
- The Science Is Settled: No Nutritional Difference Between Free-Range And Caged Chicken Eggs
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One of the stranger claims of anti-science hippies is that there is not only a difference between 'organic' food (and apparently 'inorganic' food, whatever that could be) in structure- and if you believe that, go read Huffington Post, I ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 26 2011 - 7:22pm
- Gibson Guitars And The Lacey Act Misused
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The Lacey Act is one of few government regulations I have praised for its effectiveness. Few government regulations are actually designed to help anyone, they are either designed to hobble someone in order to artificially level the playing field or they a ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2012 - 6:16pm
- Geobacter Bacteria: Microbes That Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste
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Geobacter can clean up uranium but a new study documenting how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals could mean a big benefit for contaminated sites in the future. Identifying the Geobacters' conductive ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2011 - 3:40pm
- Environmentalists: Save More Species By Accepting Science
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Unfortunate subsets of some militant environmental groups believe that anyone who uses the land, including quite responsibly, is an enemy. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2012 - 12:11am
- Federal Wilderness Act And Environmentalists Prevent Endangered Trout Recovery
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One long-standing myth is that any law claiming to be good for the environment is actually good for the environment. Anyone living along levees in the South who watched environmental lawsuits block improvements in the 1990s and then heard the Army Corps ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 12 2011 - 7:06pm
- Play In The Petermann Pond
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Every night I have certain rituals that must be executed, or else. Not sure what else really, but I fear that it involves my hospitalization. Let us say that in order to avoid nervous breakdowns, I visit a handful of science sites, particularly looking fo ...
Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Oct 24 2011 - 6:50pm
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