Earth Sciences

Genetically modified foods (GM foods or GMF) offer a way to quickly improve crop characteristics such as yield, pest resistance, or herbicide tolerance,

labeling for all food and food ingredients containing genetically engineered DNA/proteins above a 1% ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 28 2009 - 10:08am

Social acceptability and eco-developmental problems associated with biofuel production.

fruit ripening. This is part of the over all program. Water management for the region will have to be ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 8 2009 - 9:55pm

An environmental factor that limits crop productivity or destroys biomass is referred to as stress or disturbance.

largely a matter of conjecture. Likewise, high concentrations of many but not all compatible solutes ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 26 2009 - 7:54am

UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts

the global economic downturn, resisted pressure to chip in. In the end, all 27 EU nations agreed to ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 11 2009 - 11:16am

Glacier Sticks Out Tongue- Scientists Say Aaaah!

rate of calving.  The more shelter there is for the ice tongue, the longer it will grow, all other ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 27 2010 - 3:19pm

Why Cattle-Driven Global Warming Is A Load Of Bull

in all the States of the American Union, was, in round numbers, 7,100,000; of asses and mules, ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 13 2011 - 10:26am

A Global Warming Skeptic Clouds The Issues

are only as good as the assumptions that go into them. And they have hundreds of assumption. All it ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 13 2010 - 6:23pm

MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists- #3

Credit: All images courtesy the U.S. taxpayer and NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 21 2010 - 6:28am

Arctic Ice July 2010- Update #2

All along the shore the remaining ice is fairly loose.  It is hard to distinguish ice from ice smoke, ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Oct 3 2010 - 4:20pm

Big Arctic Ice Thaw coming this summer

this. Some say it will take 2,000 or 3,000 years to melt all of Greenland. A few say less than 500. ...

Blog Post - Craig Dillon - Jun 24 2011 - 9:19pm