Environment
- Care About Global Warming? It's In Your Genes, Says Researcher
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A genetic link to caring about global warming? Al Gore has truly jumped the shark, you may be thinking. But humans may be programmed by evolution to care about their environment, suggests research published today, because it impacts reproduction and f ...
Article - News Staff - May 27 2009 - 9:44am
- Daisyworld And Your New White Roof
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At the opening of last week’s Nobel Laureate symposium, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu endorsed a low-tech tool to keep climate change at bay: white paint. According to Chu’s colleague Art Rosenfeld, lightening our planet’s dark roofs and roads would be e ...
Article - Stephanie Pulford - Jun 2 2009 - 1:19am
- Rammed Earth Ancient Building Technique Could Be In Our Eco-Friendly Future
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Nothing makes modern progressives happy like hoping mankind regresses and nothing makes modern conservatives happy like hoping progress in the future will clean up the environment. Both sides may win, according to research led by Durham University. The s ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2009 - 2:09pm
- Trains, Planes Or Automobiles- Which Is Really The Worst For The Environment?
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Trains, planes, buses and automobiles are more than just exhaust, when it comes to the full scope of environmental damage. There is a full life-cycle of processes associated with getting from Point A to Point B that we have difficult quantifying but in an ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2009 - 1:41am
- Climate Change Scientists Must Reduce The Carbon Footprint Of Their Jobs Too- Study
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Activists tend to point to someone else's job and say it's for the good of the planet that it disappear. But everyone need to cut back, including climate scientists, says a researcher who, ironically, regularly flies north to study the health o ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2009 - 11:27am
- Exploring Saanich Peninsula
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Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jun 8 2009 - 2:25pm
- The Creeping Doom Of... Jellyfish
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Jellyfish blooms are up almost everywhere and it's going to become a menace. The reason? Over-fishing and excess nutrients from fertilizers and sewage, say researchers from The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), A ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2009 - 3:32pm
- It's No Soap- Laundry Saves Lives
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It's No Soap- Laundry Saves Lives On January 7th 2007, at Sizewell A power station on England's Suffolk coast, an environmental disaster was narrowly averted when a worker visiting the laundry spotted a coolant leak. A chance decision to wash so ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 11 2009 - 11:08pm
- Climate Change Plan For Africa- Agricultural Adaptation
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Fluctuating temperatures in Africa have always made reliable agriculture production difficult and global warming could make it even worse. If local varieties of maize and other food staples are unsuitable, the food security of many Africans will depend o ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2009 - 10:38am
- Forget Phallic Symbols, Let's Talk About Phthalic Symbols
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Sperm bigger than the actual creator of the sperm and phallic mushrooms have been all the rage this week, but immobilized microbes that can break down potentially harmful Phthalic Acid Esters (PAEs), commonly known as phthalates, are big news too, accordi ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2009 - 10:43am
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