Environment

How To Fix Our Nitrogen Emergency

Do we have a nitrogen emergency? Most people aren't aware of the role nitrogen plays in our atmosphere. According to NASA, Nitrogen makes up about 78% of our atmosphere. Despite being so prevalent, we give it relatively little thought. We've spe ...

Blog Post - Mark Pierce - Jul 21 2021 - 11:37am

From Diapers To Sticky Notes- A Revolution In Recycling

Diapers are not what you'd think about first when you consider recycling. The CBC estimates the number at  billions of disposable diapers entering landfills in North America. With this much waste, recycling these absorbent plastics might seem like a ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Aug 18 2021 - 10:05am

How Microbes Can Mine Rocks In Space (And How It Could Save Earth)

Mining is a messy process. It takes a lot of effort to break open rocks to get the materials needed to keep our current technological level on earth. The march of technology has produced some massive leaps and bounds in communication and quality of life i ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Sep 6 2021 - 9:02pm

Activists Who Spent 40 Years Blocking Water Projects Now Say They're Unneeded Or They'd Have Been Built

In the midst of wildfires that occur with more severity because environmentalists block responsible logging and tree management in California, environmentalists who have blocked water infrastructure now say we don't need the infrastructure voters pass ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 7 2021 - 5:11pm

Early Earth's Oxygen Buildup May Be Due To Longer Days

Earth shifted from an anaerobic atmosphere to an aerobic one early in its life. However, for a long time, the question as to how it got there was still unresolved. ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Sep 9 2021 - 8:06pm

Honeybees Have Increased 85% In The Last 60 Years

A new analysis finds that if there ever was a "Beepocalypse", it hasn't been during this century. Using data since 1961, they found that the number of managed honey bee colonies has risen by 85%. Managed colonies are the only way to create ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 24 2021 - 12:19pm

Hunting And Conservation: Why Environmentalists Should Be Allies

In the modern environmental era, activists are mostly among a political tribe that opposes activities like hunting but they should not be. Hunters, fishers, and others are terrific stewards of nature and a natural world humans are banned from experiencing ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 7 2021 - 11:49am

Seabirds Love Plastic- If 'Bioaccumulation' Is Real, There May Be Cause For Concern

Though it is common to see environmental videos of birds caught in plastic, less well known is that, like cats, seabirds love to eat it. Paracelsus famously noted that the dose makes the poison but in the 1990s some activist scientists began claiming that ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2021 - 5:41am

How To Motivate Your Self, And Others To Act On Climate Change, Biodiversity Or Anything Else- Tips From Psychology

How to motivate your self, and others to act on climate change, biodiversity or anything else- tips from psychology This talk may help you if you are thinking about how to motivate both yourself and others, and also governments, to act on climate change, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 20 2021 - 11:31pm

What Would The Effects Be Of A Major Solar Storm? Short Term Local Power Cuts For Hours- Not Widespread Blackout For Months

From time to time we get larger solar storms. One of the last major ones was the one in March 1989 geomagnetic storm which caused a nine hour power cut in Quebec. That happened because they weren’t prepared for it. Modern power supplies are hardened again ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 21 2021 - 12:03am