Environment

Gardening on Steroids Solving World Hunger

Let me introduce myself an environmental activist when I was young now older I am a scientist solving problems. I work every day in my field environmental agriculture lab. I am an expert in various fields, potato field, flower field, melon field just to na ...

Blog Post - Russell Ade - Jun 19 2009 - 2:39pm

Scientific Blogging Fave Jane Poynter TED Talk

Here's a 15 minute video of Scientific Blogging featured writer Jane Poynter talking about her 2 years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2, along with what she is doing to save Biosphere 1 (errrr, that would be Earth). ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 19 2009 - 10:41pm

'Green' Fireworks For 4th Of July- Can You Get The Same Boom With Less Pollution?

If you're like us, you are eagerly awaiting those July 4 fireworks displays because you get to blow stuff up using science (not just the US, Canada too, though they picked the wrong day by using July 1 for  Canada Day celebrations)- if only we could h ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 2 2009 - 1:00pm

Are Pets our slaves.?

What happens when the pet owners refuse to take the responsibility of the animals litter? They are either turned outdoors as strays or sold back to the pet dealers and puppy mills where they are resold or exterminated. Over 25 million pets in the U.S, alo ...

Blog Post - Sandip Sen - Jun 26 2009 - 10:02pm

Global Warming What is the Point of No Return?

More species can live in a warmer temperature than an ice age. There are more species at the equator than the North and south poles. So why be concerned? Because of the ocean. Not the rise and fall of it but the temperature. Cold and Hot are what run our w ...

Blog Post - Russell Ade - Jun 29 2009 - 10:35pm

Freshwater Rain Band Continues 300 Year Journey Northward

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years,  according to research published in Nature Geoscience.  If the band co ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2009 - 2:39pm

Holy Shrinking Sheep! Global Warming More Powerful Than Natural Selection, Say Researchers

Just when you thought evolution couldn't get attacked by anyone else, a zoologist writing in Science and his colleagues are contending that changing winter conditions due to global warming are causing Scotland's wild Soay sheep to get smaller des ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2009 - 2:44pm

Mars Candy Worries About Sustainable Chocolate

Mars, Incorporated, the global brand dealing primarily with chocolate, other candy and pet food (1), wants to discuss its cocoa sustainability program as part of a summer-long sustainability exhibition on Mainau Island- a botanical island famed locally fo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2009 - 12:51pm

Salt Tolerant Crops Get A Little Closer

Researchers have used genetific modification (GM) to bring salt-tolerant plants a little closer to reality. The research team – based at the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus in Australia – has used a new GM technique to contain salt in parts of t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2009 - 3:18pm

Geomorphology And Neotectonics Of Mountains

I want to start my first scientific blog, where different environmental questions will be published. Excuse me for my bad English, I try to learn it..  ...

Blog Post - Alexander Muriy - Jul 11 2009 - 9:44am