Climate change
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
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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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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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Ever wonder where your cell phone came from? Or maybe your computer, your couch, your car, or even your cereal bowls? How about where they end up once you're done with them? Well if you've got 20 minutes on your hands (and if you don't, make the time!), check out ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
So you're walking down the streets of Brussels, just enjoying a nice Belgian waffle and maybe a beer when Fred, Barney and the rest of the Flintstones gang rolls by in their fancy car, outfitted with decals of all the major auto manufacturers, stuck to the sides. If that wasn't ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
We all know that even if we stop producing CO2 immediately, the effects of what we've already put into the air will be catching up to us even over the next 50 to 100 years. So while reducing our emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases is key, removing some ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Every year there is more than 2 million tons of household electronics that get tossed out in the US, and less than 20% of this is ever recycled. Despite many electronics manufacturers offering free recycling (or the cost being included in the price) of their products once you are finished ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
I would be lying if I said I wasn't biased in favor of Tim Flannery, a leading voice in the fight against climate change and habitat destruction. Over the years I've read probably all his books and followed his entrance into the debate over greenhouse gases and global warming. He's ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Well, a report just released by the Democratic staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee shows the first hard evidence of interference by the White House in the EPA's affairs regarding the capping of greenhouse gases since it denied California's waiver to increase the fuel efficiency of vehicles ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Yesterday the Department of the Interior, who has been procrastinating for several years now regarding the status of the polar bear, finally announced that the animal will be officially listed as 'threatened' under the Endangered Species Act. The DOI has been pressured by vigorous activist and environmental groups to list ...
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