Environment

Rising CO2 Keeps Trees From Cooling Earth

Trees help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are preventing them from performing this very important function. According to a new study in PNAS, in some regions more than a quarter of the warming from increased car ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2010 - 4:35pm

IPCC Review Panel Revealed

The UN-requested review of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to be headed by Harold T. Shapiro, former president of Princeton. Shapiro, along with 11 others, will analyse “IPCC policies and the procedures by which it prepares it ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - May 4 2010 - 11:04am

Oil Spill Unlikely To Reach US East Coast

As concern grows after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico two weeks ago, scientists are monitoring the situation closely with ESA's Envisat radar data. The spill still appears relatively confined around its point ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2010 - 12:18pm

Wild Wells

Wild Wells Caution: satire alert! The current slight mishap in the Gulf of Mexico is just another oil spill. So says BP and the media, and we all know we can trust them to be honest and ethical. The Gulf disaster is not an oil spill- it's a wild well ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 5 2010 - 4:26pm

Arctic Ice May 2010

Arctic Ice May 2010 The Arctic melt, already more rapid than average this year, has begun to accelerate. I have no doubt that by the end of this month, May 2010, there will be much less sea ice than there was in May 2007. I have no doubt either that the a ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 20 2010 - 1:44pm

Federal Regulators Allowed Oil Companies To Decide Safety Issues

Federal Regulators Allowed Oil Companies To Decide Safety Issues I noted in my recent article Oil Spills And Troubled Waters: When safety depends on the ability to shut down a system by blocking a fluid flow it is absolutely imperative that the system shou ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 7 2010 - 11:58am

Study Tracks Worldwide Forest Loss, Boreal See Greatest Decline

Despite ongoing threats to rain forests in the Amazon and Congo river basins, researchers studying the latest satellite data say that the greatest loss in forest cover from 2000 to 2005 wasn’t in rain forests, but in boreal forests in places like North Ame ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2010 - 1:35pm

A new idea for saving tigers

I think that most of the tiger conservation projects in India have not done very well because of corruption. The import and exportation of tiger parts is a sizable business but just try to imagine the dynamics of such a business. Just think of a typical g ...

Blog Post - Yashraj Chavhan - May 7 2010 - 10:35pm

Why Plants Can't Sequester Excess CO2

Why Plants Can't Sequester Excess CO2 Plants love CO2, right? More CO2 makes plants grow more, right? It follows that a global rise in atmospheric CO2 will produce healthier plants globally, right? Wrong!   Wrong!   Wrong! Try this simple experiment. ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 11 2010 - 2:30pm

Is The 'plants Love CO2' Theory Valid?

Is the 'plants love CO2' theory valid? Plants use CO2 from the atmosphere to grow.  It follows that more CO2 will promote more growth.  That is the gist of the 'plants love CO2' theory.  But is the theory valid? In a recent article I a ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 11 2010 - 2:28pm