Earth Sciences

Where Did All The Oil From The Deepwater Horizon Spill Go?

Damage assessments from environmental hazards are always a challenge because of the competing constituencies pulling on science and the fuzzy nature of estimates. After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration was e ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2014 - 11:17am

Trouble With Terraforming Mars

parties with plans to colonize Mars, they intend to comply with all planetary protection regulations. They ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 6:34pm

NASA's NOT RISKY Plan- Drill Into BASE Of Yellowstone Magma Chamber- Generate Electricty- Stop Eruptions CENTURIES From Now

at all, is hundreds of thousands of years from now or at least thousands of years from now. It might ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 12 2017 - 11:07pm

No Scientific Cliff Edge Of 12 Years To Save Planet (or 18 Months)- Can IPCC Challenge 'Deadlines Make Headlines' Misreporting?

who take all this so literally, they are convinced that they will not live to adulthood. Adults wonder ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 31 2019 - 3:36pm

No We Do Not Risk Birds Vanishing From The US Skies- And Have We Really Lost 3 Billion Birds Since 1970?

all the birds in a region. But this makes it incomplete. They only have numbers for 76% of the US bird ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 11 2019 - 8:51pm

Order Patterned With Chaos- How Climate Is Predicted For Decades- With Exact Forecasts Only For Days

to model all the factors that can influence our climate. So which factors are the important ones? ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 22 2019 - 8:32am

Americans Want Environmental Protection And More Fossil Fuel Extraction: Is That Possible?

for example – the stated purpose is to push forward on all types of energy sources, all while also ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 3 2015 - 8:30pm

Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Will Help Restore The Decimated, Iconic Tree

between species unnatural? In short: no. Such movement has been essential to the evolution of all species. ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 17 2019 - 12:57pm

11,000 Scientists + Micky Mouse Sign Climate Paper Without Fact Checking Cites- Carbon Tax Error- And Uncited Fate Of Humanity

based on a single controversial paper, it is not a review of the literature at all. It is just one paper ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 29 2023 - 9:40am

Biofuel is not ‘worse than regular petrol or diesel’ provided a three tier model is adopted and forests are not cleared to raise biofuel

interpretations.   Is all biofuel bad for the environment? “A distinction must be drawn between first-generation ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 7 2010 - 9:58pm