Environment

Lacey Act- Sometimes Government Gets It Right

The federal government rarely succeeds in its attempts to legislate what I would call positive things- this is because the government has no power beyond restricting money and every effort to exceed that is met with resistance by constitutional scholars an ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 18 2010 - 8:04pm

IPhone App: Lyme Disease Tick Map

A research team at the Yale School of Public Health has developed the first smartphone app for Lyme disease.   Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium, which spreads to humans through the bite of infected blacklegged ticks. Using Global Position System, the ...

Article - Zeynep Altinay - Nov 5 2011 - 9:32pm

Community Mapping Brings A Revolution To Geographic Information Science

A recent National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture series featured  Michael Goodchild, a world-renowned geographer and director of the University of California, Santa Barbara's  Center for Spatial Studies. On November 17, Prof. ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Nov 25 2010 - 3:20pm

I Respectfully Draw Your Attention To...

As a form of encouragement for the first steps in the scientific publishing world, I am here taking the licence to draw your attention, dear reader, to the first article published here by my nephew Enrico, who isn't even 18 years old yet but is alread ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 9 2010 - 10:55am

Did Non-Anthropogenic Climate Change Cause Neanderthal Extinction?

Recent research proposes that 40,000 years ago a series of massive, volcanic eruptions caused drastically cooler, dryer climate change, which was then responsible for driving Neanderthals to extinction. This cleared the way for modern humans to replace th ...

Blog Post - Helen Barratt - Dec 30 2010 - 9:25pm

Stranger Than Paradise

I just returned from Environment and Climate Change Summit held at New Delhi. After 3 days of round table discussion and intensive brainstorming the final result was that every participating nation pledged to reduce its greenhouse emissions and carbon foot ...

Blog Post - Vikki Cvichiee - Dec 17 2010 - 4:49pm

Could someone explain?

This has recently appeared on Telegraph Blogs, from one of the few sensible authors. Could someone explain why global warming has to be a disaster? Could readers please help with a reasonably concise explanation, which I could post within a day or two? Man ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 20 2010 - 11:01am

Biodegradation of phenol by oxygenase producing thermophilic microorganisms

Biodegradation of phenol by oxygenase producing thermophilic microorganisms Neetika Mathur1*, Vinod Kumar Nigam2, Ashwani Kumar1 and Purnendu ghosh2 1 Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan- 302 004 2 Department of Biotechnology, Birla In ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 21 2010 - 9:47pm

Super Fast Mutant Seed?

If you've ever splurged on more expensive grass seed in hopes of a better lawn, you may have been derailed by the frustratingly long time it takes to actually grow once planted. Up in New England, we regularly water for several weeks before even seei ...

Blog Post - Christopher Brown - Jan 7 2011 - 9:41am

Will Banning Plastic Bags Help The Environment?

Abstract The banning of plastic bags may not be the salvation of the environment, but it could be a useful way to begin reducing waste pollution. Plastic bags:-  are one of the plastic products produced in the greater numbers, and one of the products most ...

Article - Enrico Dorigo - Aug 26 2011 - 2:56am