Government Regulations Could Cause Half Of Small Farms To Fail By 2050
"Whole earth farming” practices are a popular new government mandate. And they will wreck small farmers.
Environment
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Energy
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Inconsistency Of EV Battery Pack Performance Remains A Challenge
Electric cars are currently limited in utility, which means continued government subsidies and high cost, because battery technology has not changed in the last 35 years.
Atmospheric
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If You Worry About Microplastics, Be Grateful If Climate Change Means Fewer Hurricanes
Climate change has been implicated in the lack of hurricanes this year, but there may be an upside to doom from fewer atmospheric disasters. If you worry about microplastics, PM2.5, or other...
Paleontology
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Jurassic Puke: Plesiosaurs Knew Not To Vomit Where They Eat
Jurassic monsters sometimes needed to vomit. When they did, they went to shore.
Geology
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Climate Change Linked To Greater Arctic Earthquakes
A new paper believes that in an already seismically active Arctic region, permafrost degradation can weaken the ice that helps to bind fractures within rock.
Oceanography
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Is Coastal Flooding Now Predictable?
Flooding has long been an unpredictable event, as poorly understood as hurricanes or any weather. That may no longer be the case.
RIT scientist fine-tunes Hubble Space Telescope
A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology has expanded the Hubble Space Telescope's capability without the need for new instruments or billions of dollars.
Dan Batcheldor and his team improved…
Researchers Clone Key Sperm-binding Proteins
New treatments for infertility could be closer to reality, thanks to a discovery from scientists at the Université de Montréal and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre.
According to a study…
Big and small dents
The Earth explorer satellite GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer), built by the European Space Agency ESA, was successfully launched today at 15:21 GMT from the Russian…
Call for Abstracts for Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen (Deadline September 1, 2008)
Here is your opportunity to influence the policy makers at the the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15) to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark during November-December 2009.
Specifically, the…
Introduction To Geodesy
Geodesy is the science of determining the geometry, gravity field, and rotation of the Earth and their evolution in time. Traditionally, geodesy has been serving other sciences and has had many…
How Ancient Glaciers Survived In A Greenhouse Climate
New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events.
The study by researchers at Scripps…
Allan Hills 84001 Analysis Confirms Building Blocks Of Life Also Formed On Mars
Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at…
New Model Redefines How Plants And Soil Interacts With The Atmosphere
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new model of global carbon and nitrogen cycling that will fundamentally transform the understanding of how plants and soils interact with a…
Study: Today's Greenland Ice Melting Similar To 1920s - 1940s Period
Two researchers have found that the effects of the current warming and melting of Greenland 's glaciers that has alarmed the world's climate scientists occurred in the decades following an abrupt…
Ancient Global Warming Caused Flood Which Caused Ancient Global Cooling
As the giant North American ice sheets melted an enormous pool of freshwater, many times larger than all of the Great Lakes, formed behind them. About 8400 years ago this pool of freshwater burst…
