Environment

Good Soil Doesn't Just Fall From The Sky, You Know

Soil organic matter makes up the bulk of terrestrially bound carbon in our biosphere. Those compounds play an important role, not only for soil fertility and agricultural yields but also for controlling the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmospher ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2012 - 12:00pm

Care About Sustainable Food? Add Bug Larvae To Your Diet

When people talk about sustainable food in 2013, they really mean something with an 'organic' label that they can attribute all kinds of other ethical and environmental traits to- sustainable food the way those people mean it is not sustainable ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 6 2013 - 11:28am

This Is Not A Rainforest!

This is not a rainforest! A story wherein I reveal resistant and deliberate ignorance. ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Dec 30 2012 - 9:20pm

The Shocking Carbon Footprint of Compost

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Blog Post - Steve Savage - Jan 19 2016 - 1:04pm

The Best Of Earth Observations 2012

Our Earth observation capacity is growing. Not only are star satellite data providers such as NASA and ESA improving their high quality products, new economies such as China and Brazil invest parts of their new won wealth in remote sensing as well. ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Jan 4 2013 - 5:04pm

South Pole: Garbage Dump At The End Of The World

When you think of the South Pole, you probably don't think of garbage.   Yet according to a report commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) in Germany, the Antarctic is littered with leftovers from derelict experimental set-up ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2013 - 12:30pm

Soil Building: The Key To Sustainable Farming

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Article - Steve Savage - Feb 12 2013 - 3:50pm

The Hazardous Waste Of Solar Panels

There is a good reason I was not a fan of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's nationalistic claim that we are in a 'race' to beat China in creating cheap solar panels.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2013 - 11:11am

Aerated Sewage Lagoons Remove Most Natural Hormomes And Pharmaceuticals

2012 was the 40th anniversary since President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Water Act and established regulations for the discharge of pollutants to waterways- and even lets the government declare water itself as a pollutant.  Despite sewage treatment pl ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2013 - 3:02pm

How To Make Siberia A Lot Less Scary

Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could see permanently frozen ground thaw over a large area of Siberia, which would threaten to release carbon from soils and damage to natural and human environmen ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2013 - 1:31pm