Environment
- Arctic Ice 2011- Sail, Steam And Satellites
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Arctic Ice 2011- Sail, Steam and Satellites The NSIDC will shortly be publishing its report for March 2011. I expect the report to conclude that Arctic sea ice extent for February 2011 was the 'lowest in the satellite record'. That would mean ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 1 2011 - 11:13am
- Arctic Ice March 2011
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Arctic Ice March 2011 In April 2010 a late upward blip in Arctic sea ice extent led some bloggers to write about 'recovery'. The blip was anomalous, hence there is no reason to expect a repetition this year. On the contrary, it is likely that ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 20 2011 - 10:20am
- Boswellia serrata and Sterculia urens are indicators of water below hill top.
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Kadaya (Sterculia urens) and Salar (Boswellia serrata) are very typical in their habitat. They grow on slopes approaching hill tops or near hill tops (but not on the hill tops) if the water stream is flowing at the base of the the hills or hill range or th ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 3 2011 - 10:15am
- Tecomella undulata, Marwar Teak is on the verge of extinction
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Nature provides "Teak " although its "Marwar Teak " for the desert people of Rajasthan. It was a common site to see this tree in the desert regions of Rajasthan and other parts of Rajasthan. In this month onwards one can see beautiful r ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 5 2011 - 9:34am
- How Humans Can Affect Nature
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Some people accept that the world's climate systems are changing, but try to argue that humans are too puny to be any part of the cause. The reason for putting forward such an argument in the face of a wealth of historical and scientific data seems to ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 8 2011 - 11:54am
- Arctic Ice March 2011- Update #1
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Arctic Ice March 2011- Update #1 Edited March 11 2011- content added below ice prediction chart to address points raised in readers' comments. The Arctic sea ice extent has grown a little recently. Ice extent as of March 10 2011 is 13749688 km 2 ( ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 11 2011 - 5:34pm
- I Wouldn't Worry About The Latest Mass Extinction Scare
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You've seen it everywhere by now- Earth's sixth mass extinction: Is it almost here? and other articles discussing an article in Nature (471, 51–57 doi:10.1038/nature09678) claiming the end of the world is nigh. Hey, I like to live in important ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2011 - 10:58pm
- Canada: All the water you can buy
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As you may or may not know, I am a member of the Council of Canadians. http://www.canadians.org/index.html The council is a privately funded "social watchdog" (if I may be blunt.) At the above site you will find all you could want to know about ...
Blog Post - Brian Taylor - Mar 8 2011 - 11:49pm
- Should The EPA Be The Most Powerful Federal Agency In Science?
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It is impossible today to get a 'treaty' ratified that would cause America to obey CO2 limits set by any outside body, for a number of reasons. So Democrats in Congress have been trying to make CO2 the purview of the Environmental Protection Age ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2011 - 11:34am
- Argentina's Squid Are Suffering
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Illex argentinus, our old friend the Argentine shortfin squid, is not looking so good this year. To recap: the fishery crashed in 2009 and rebounded somewhat in 2010. Now it's down again at the beginning of 2011: Argentina's fisheries yields sho ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Mar 9 2011 - 8:51pm
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