Environment

Federal Wilderness Act And Environmentalists Prevent Endangered Trout Recovery

One long-standing myth is that any law claiming to be good for the environment is actually good for the environment.   Anyone living along levees in the South who watched environmental lawsuits block improvements in the 1990s and then heard the Army Corps ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 12 2011 - 7:06pm

Play In The Petermann Pond

Every night I have certain rituals that must be executed, or else. Not sure what else really, but I fear that it involves my hospitalization. Let us say that in order to avoid nervous breakdowns, I visit a handful of science sites, particularly looking fo ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Oct 24 2011 - 6:50pm

Climate change: myth or reality? Mr Al Gore vs Heartland Institue as shown on popular channel.

Climate change is real.One can see it happening. Mr Al Gore was awarded Nobel prize for his work on this. Simultaneously Heartland Institute reports were also shown on popular channel this week. The Heartland Institute predictions for 100 years from now th ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 17 2011 - 12:48pm

Water: River Basins Enough To Sustainably Double Food Production

While concern about water is always real, scare tactics like virtual water do more harm than good for rational policy making. Objective analyses show we don't have a food issue looming that science and technology can't address. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2011 - 9:14pm

Migrating Genetically Modified Canola Found In North Dakota

Canola, a specific edible type of rapeseed developed in the 1970s, contains about 40 percent oil and became popular as a substitute for traditional cooking oils. The name is derived as “Can” (for Canada) and “ola” (for oil low acid) and Canola oil is the l ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2011 - 10:17am

Spring Creek Canyon- A Win for Environmentalists, Sportsmen and Government

We're hearing a lot about the failures of government and I am on that bandwagon- chronic runaway spending, the foolishness with Gibson guitars, delays for an energy project that helps poor people and lowers emissions, and I was one of only about four ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 12 2011 - 3:18pm

Talking Bacteria Could Affect Climate

Particulate organic carbon (or POC) is an important factor in the ocean’s carbon cycle. When these tiny particles hit the water, they sink and attract bacteria. These bacteria can feed on the particles, releasing carbon into shallow waters and the atmosph ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Oct 13 2011 - 10:25am

NEXT GENERATION BIOFUELS DEALING WITH ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 17 2011 - 6:31am

Biodiversity May Be A Key Weapon For Species Survival During Climate Change

The biodiversity of the ecological community may impact whether a species can evolve to survive climate change, according to a numerical model that simulates the effect of climate change on plants and pollinators. The study in Evolutionary Applications se ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2011 - 9:30am

Beautiful Earth

This video has become quite popular the last few days, so if you've already seen it, my apologies. Nevertheless, I decided to post it here because it's just so darn pretty. It's a time lapse sequence of photographs taken by astronaut Ron Gar ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - Nov 16 2011 - 6:08am