Environment

An open Letter to the World's Leaders

An open Letter to the World's Leaders Honorable Leaders, As our climate continues to change due to our extravagant use of fossil fuels, new sources of those fuels are being discovered in the Arctic regions. Given that it is our own profligate use of f ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 29 2009 - 10:34am

Earth Hour Photos 2009

A few photos from around the world of cities that participated in Earth Hour 2009. Nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries took part in an effort to call attention to climate change. The event, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, called on cities ...

Blog Post - Kimberly Crandell - Mar 29 2009 - 11:07am

James Hansen Sets The Record Straight On The New York Times Article 'The Civil Heretic'

Dr. James E. Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and an adviser to Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is quoted and referred to in the New York Times article "The Civil Heretic- Freeman Dyson- Profile" ...

Article - Diana Deregnier - Mar 29 2009 - 7:16pm

We Can Boost The Carbon Storage Of North American Forests- Study

With climate change looming, the hunt for places that can soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is on. Obvious "sinks" for the greenhouse gas include the oceans and the enormous trees of tropical rainforests. But temperate forests also play ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2009 - 7:38pm

Bags of Rubbish

Bags of Rubbish Bad science is problem enough, but when the media gets hold of it, it can become worse science. It can become a part of an 'everybody knows that' truth which is, in reality, global myth. When that 'truth' circles back t ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 9 2009 - 7:46am

Building A Straw Man Out Of Red Herrings.

A recently released British film The Age of Stupid, uses good science to good effect in a projection of a possible future.  The theme is that if we do nothing about global climate change, then we are not living in an age of reason, but in an age of stupid. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 9 2009 - 7:08pm

A new environmental weapon everyone can get behind

Is it a weapon? Is it a tool? Is it a form of protest? Can it make your city pretty? Then it must be a seed ball! Screening criteria for use: are you able to throw, drop, give to someone else to throw or otherwise deposit a small seed ball onto a patch of ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 16 2009 - 12:11am

For Earth Day, NASA Wants You To Vote On Their Greatest Hits

What?  NASA wants to make Earth Day about space? Not at all, NASA is instead asking the public to vote for the most important contribution the space agency has made to exploring and understanding Earth and improving the way we live on our home planet.  Tha ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2009 - 1:44pm

Obese People Implicated In Global Warming Again

Fat people require more food and that requires more farming and greenhouse gas emissions.  Therefore, maintaining a healthy body weight is also good for the environment, according to a study which appears today in the International Journal of Epidemiology. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2009 - 8:39pm

Band-i-Amir On The Road To Civilization: Afghanistan Gets Its First National Park

Take that, Taliban.   Western decadence, in the form of caring about beauty and nature, has infested your fundamentalist madness and it's here to stay. We are talking about Band-i-Amir national park in Afghanistan, which opens today. The United States ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2009 - 1:31am