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By Mark Pierce
How Scientific Fraud Became EU Law
Encounters With Giant Sharks In The Arctic
EPA Finally Ends Regulation By 'Secret Sauce'
What Will It Take For Real Farming In Space?
Last week, the United Nations added 18 sites around the globe to its list of biosphere reserves, bringing the total number of sites so designated under its Man and the Biosphere Program to 581.Most of us are probably more familiar with another U.N. collection: World Heritage Sites, which identify “universally”>
A few years ago, I couldn’t read an energy bill beyond the charge levied. I couldn’t tell you how energy was measured, or ultimately how its use related to making my life better or worse, let alone how it affected broader society and the planet.I resolved to change this. I studied energy and sustainability at>
In developed countries, air quality is now great. So great that true smog (PM10 - particulate matter 10 microns in diameter) is basically going extinct in countries like America so epidemiologists and demographers have taken to promoting concern about particles so small they can only be detected with an electron microscope>
The Pacific Northwest is an area of extreme natural beauty and rich fossil deposits. While we do not have the dinosaur bragging rights of our cousins to the east and south, we have beautiful plant, mammal and marine fossils that can be counted as some of the best in the world. >
We may use terms like "grounded" and terra firma to mean stability and consistency but geology laughs at that notion. The next time you go on vacation, a new tool can show you how many places your vacation destination has been. Paleolatitude.org can do that, right down to the movements of small tectonic>
A new study says that salt-saturated brine moving through floating sea ice follows “universal transport properties” and that this new understanding can help anticipate the effects of global warming on the polar oceans and the microbial communities existing there.
According to this new model, similar porous>
