Environment

Kelp Watch 2014- No Radiation From Fukushima Detected On West Coast

The Kelp Watch 2014 collaboration has some good news- the West Coast shoreline shows no signs of ocean-borne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Kelp Watch 2014 uses coastal kelp beds as detectors of radioactive seawater arriving ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 12:35pm

To You, It's Lost Cargo- To Deep-Sea Animal Communities, It's Home

Pollution is bad, right? To some animals, it's home. Thousands of shipping containers are lost from cargo vessels each year and many of them sink, never to be found again.  In February 2004, the cargo vessel Med Taipei was traveling southward along t ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 8:51am

3 Good Reasons To Grow Organic Food In Caves

Are you worried that genetically modified corn will imperil the earth and ruin your organic sticker status if the air blows toward your fields? Horticulturalists have a solution; let science grow transgenic crops that can feed billions and create high-val ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 17 2014 - 6:25pm

How To Cut Nitrogen Pollution From Farming In Half

The most important fertilizer for producing food is nitrogen. But, as is obvious with any fertilizer or pesticide or anything else, the dose makes the poison. DDT became a problem when it was used improperly, by people who assumed more would work better, ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2014 - 8:51am

Eradicate Invasive Species, Damage Endangered Species Recovery

When it comes to ecology and zoology, policy actions tend to ignore the system and focus on turning one knob. Then, when the ripple effect is felt throughout the ecosystem, a new knob is turned. Sometimes the problem with that approach becomes obviously e ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 4:00pm

This One Simple, Inexpensive Technique Could Double Carbon Sequestration In Soil

While western nations have dropped emissions on schedule, led by the United States, which has pushed its greenhouse gas emissions from energy back to early 1990s levels and coal back to early 1980s levels, the increasingly modern developing world have con ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2014 - 10:13am

Urban Rivers In Britain Cleanest Since 1991

A 21-year study of over 2,300 rivers in Britain measured the presence of clean-river invertebrates- a yardstick for river health –   and found they are the cleanest they've been in over two decades. During the days of heavy industry and poor sewage t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 10:03am

Put away your Eco-guilt

George Monbiot wrote in his Guardian column a couple of weeks ago:  "For years we’ve been told that people cannot afford to care about the natural world until they become rich; that only economic growth can save the biosphere, that civilisation marche ...

Blog Post - Graham Strouts - Mar 22 2016 - 6:34am

Killer Regulators Are More Dangerous To Bees Than Neonics Are

At a time when the EPA is rushing to place new regulations on the one thing that is still cheap and increasingly environmentally effective in America, energy, it may seem strange to laud the EPA. But career scientists do solid work there. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 6 2014 - 3:11pm

Common Mosquito Pesticides Don't Jeopardize Juvenile Oysters, Hard Clams

Four of the most common mosquito pesticides used along the east and Gulf coasts show little risk to juvenile hard clams and oysters, according to a NOAA study in Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. The paper also determined that lower ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2014 - 5:17pm