Environment

Unless we want continued runaway wildfires in dry regions like California, logging makes sense. But there is also an ecological upside, according to a new study. Retaining moderate levels of logging debris, also known as "slash," helped to both ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2013 - 10:41am

Where's The Missing Oil From The BP Oil Spill? 'Dirty Blizzard' May Explain It

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill dumped more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico yet government assessments have been unable to account for all of it. Microbes likely processed most of the oil within months of the spill, but not ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2013 - 11:43am

First Landsat 8 satellite images

And so here it is, the first public Landsat 8 image. The geographical honours goes to Wyoming and Colorado and the area where the Great Plains meets the Rocky Mountains in USA. I wrote about the torturing excitement and suspense when NASA and USGS launched ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Mar 22 2013 - 2:53pm

Nanotechnology Superdangerous Biotech

Globally existential threats due to ‘overpopulation momentum’ together with the top-heavy age structure leave by now no alternative to radical technological adaptation for anything that wants to survive 'long term'. It is strictly too late to ‘ ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 5 2013 - 12:57am

Climate Science

If there is a contentious and politicized branch of science today it is climate science. Either it's global warming, or global cooling, but we have settled on climate change, just in case it goes in a direction that is opposite to our predictions (bel ...

Blog Post - Haym Benaroya - Apr 4 2013 - 6:36pm

Feed Billions More People By Reducing Food Waste

The world produces a lot of food, enough to feed billions more than are living right now. There is a distribution issue, which will be solved as science engineers more crops that can grow in more local conditions, but one way to make more food available r ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2013 - 8:27pm

The Livelihood Of Small Coffee Growers Is Threatened By A Plant Disease

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Article - Steve Savage - Apr 17 2013 - 12:12am

Wildfires Dump Massive Amounts Of Charcoal Into The Worlds' Oceans

Wildfires turn millions of hectares of vegetation into charcoal each year but it wouldn't seem like it ends up in the oceans. Yet researchers have found that this charcoal does not remain in the soil, as previously thought. Instead, it is transported ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2013 - 12:00pm

How To Survive The Next Ice Age: Dietary Flexibility

During the late Pleistocene, which ended about 12,000 years ago, a remarkably diverse assemblage of large-bodied mammals inhabited the "mammoth steppe," a cold and dry environment that extended from western Europe through northern Asia and acros ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2013 - 4:11pm

Nitrate Can Take A Decade To Affect Water Quality

The movement of nitrate through groundwater to streams can take decades to occur and that long lag time means that changes in the use of nitrogen-based fertilizer (the typical source of nitrate) may take decades to be fully observed in streams, according t ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2013 - 9:00am