Nature
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Since the world's oceans are by far the largest carbon sink on the planet, they've been paid a lot of attention in recent years, not only as a gauge to measure climate change but also as possible repositories for excess CO2 currently floating in the atmosphere. Geo-engineering projects have been ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Most people may not know it, but seaweed has, for centuries, been used for a multitude of applications including cosmetics, food, medical treatments, fertilizers, and it was even burned to get potash and soda ash for the soap and glass industries in the 18th and 19th centuries. Now Ireland's great ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Jacques Cousteau is probably the father of all modern ecological study and the great mouthpiece of 20th century conservationists. His death in 1997 left a void in the ocean and took a man from us who we knew growing up from his dozens of underwater documentaries and his collaborations with ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
With the growing concern over farmland being used to produce crops that will be refined into biofuels instead of food, shortages of which are growing annually, researchers at the Carnegie Institute of Science have studied the potential for abandoned agricultural and pasture land to be used instead, and to see ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Due to the increasing cost of petroleum, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has had to cancel at least 4 voyages, and its cutting down the length of others. They are trying to figure out what missions they can and cannot run, and all of it comes down to fueling ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
If you want to be depressed about the deforestation that is going on around the world, then Google's got the ticket for you. If you happen to have Google Earth, you can take a look at the new layer, by David Tryse, showing the current status of forests around the ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has just released a nearly 400 page report that shows Africa's changing environmental landscape over the last 30 or so years, utilizing satellite imagery to show the strikingly obvious changes that have taken place as a result of everything from climate change, wars, and ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
No, you didn't read that wrong, Peru is protecting their Isla de Asia, an island lying off its coast, among other islands, with armed guards. They aren't quite protecting the island itself, but rather what's on it: bird droppings, otherwise known as guano. For centuries Peru has had a large ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Unbeknown to most, tomorrow, May 16, is Endangered Species Day. It's about time we had a such a day, and I'm not quite sure why it hasn't happened sooner. Nevertheless, we're happy it's here and we are hoping it will create a good deal of awareness of the some 5,000 ...
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