B.C. Forbes In a warming region of the Arctic, tundra shrubs are turning into small trees, with big implications. Even as insect infestations and other factors accompanying warming have led to the “browning” of some stretches of boreal forest between temperate regions and the Arctic t...
GENGHIS GREEN: The founder of history's largest contiguous empire cooled the planet while taking a body count. (Photo: Wiki Commons/public domain) Genghis Khan's Mongol invasion in the 13th and 14th centuries was so vast that it may have been the first instance in history of a single ...
With Moores law in full swing, it seems like every day brings the release of new technology. This is great for those of us who love to play with the latest gadgets, but it also means that e-waste is increasing at an exponential rate as we toss old technology into the dump . This can ...
Without any planning, I simply sat on the ground and began jingling my keys (a.k.a. the feral cat dinner bell) and because one of my regular male cats is a bit of a snob who insists on eating apart from the crowd, inside my sweater pocket I still held a small bag of food (which I had ...
A team of visionaries presented 200 fish seeking sponsors at the 2012 Summer festival Malzwiese to inaugurate the ECF Containerfarm . My fish, Louis Harvey, will live with the others in an upcycled shipping container, swimming in waters cleaned naturally by plants in the greenhouse th...
The Obama Administration has just launched a $120 million research program for new energy materials called the Critical Materials Hub , which is designed to ensure that U.S. companies get a steady supply of rare earths and other resources needed for manufacturing solar cells, advanced...
Juan Mendez, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on torture, is calling for an investigation of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JREC), a school in Canton, Massachusetts that has the highly dubious distinction of being the “only one in the world” to administer electric shock...
Highlights of the WED 2012 programme in Brazil include:1 June 2012 Opening of Green Nation Fest Museum of Natural History, Rio de Janeiro A celebration of environment, education and entertainment, the Green Nation Festival is partnering with UNEP to celebrate WED through cinema, new m...
KPFF Stormwater Cinema /Video screen capture Portland knows about the importance of public green space- it even has a movement dedicated to ripping out asphalt and giving the land back to nature. So it's no surprise that the Oregon city is home to a lovely new public garden and founta...
The EU governments fast one is a clear victory for the European natural gas lobby, according to The Guardian. “The insertion of gas energy as a low-carbon energy into an EU programme follows more [than] 18 months of intensive lobbying by the European gas industry, which is attempting ...
The now presented draft of the so called “grid development plan” calls for the expansion of the power grid in order to allow an increasing amount of wind power from offshore and onshore wind to be fed into the grid and provide renewable electricity to industrial centers and households...
An innovative carbon finance scheme tackles several issues at once: climate change, deforestation, poverty, disease and lack of clean water Clean water is something that most people take for granted. You probably just have to go to your kitchen and turn on the tap. But almost 1 billio...
Quantum computers are still years away from becoming a reality, but a group of theorists has already developed an algorithm to simulate all the possible interactions when two elementary particles collide. Currently this type of research requires years of effort and massive, expensive ...
This week's conversation was with Ory Zik, Founder and CEO of a Cambridge, MA based start-up called Energy Points . In 2010, while running his solar thermal company, HelioFocus, Ory started to notice a big hole in the conceptual understanding of environmental sustainability. He observ...
Although pigeons nowadays are largely regarded as grubby urban pests, bumblers for bread crumbs, and unwelcome statuary redecorators -- in the not-too-distant past, their service to mankind was much loftier indeed. Not only were these hardy birds used to swiftly carry important messag...
First Google turned links into money. Now Facebook is turning likes into money. To flesh that out: A decade ago, Google found a way to profit from the preferences each of us expressed as we coded links on every home page and blog post we published. Today, Facebook is aiming to profit ...
An award-winning writer and teacher, Judy Molland is also an avid hiker, backpacker, and nature lover. Her articles on education, the environment and women's rights, have appeared in numerous publications, and she is also the author of two books, Get Out! 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Gr...
NASA’s Earth-observing satellites have circled our globe for more than a decade, providing pertinent information about wildfires around the planet. Why is NASA pointing its lens back at Earth in search of fire? Firefighters use the information to battle fires, while scientists look at...
Mexico’s wind energy capacity is growing rapidly as the national and regional governments have been focusing on fostering renewable energy and clean technology development and adoption as a means of generating jobs and economic growth, as well as conserving the natural environment and...
A new gas-fired power station would be expected to have a useful life of about 25 to 40 years. So although switching from coal to gas would help countries meet their short term emissions targets, in the longer term they would be left with fleets of redundant, high-emitting fossil fuel...
Did you take your nature pill? May 27, 2012 | Leave a comment Nip “nature deficit” in the butt like Lauren Smith! Get outside for 30 minutes for 30 days. (Credit: Melanie Smith) Pop quiz: What's your preferred view—the ocean, a forest, a pond, or trickling creek? Twenty years of resea...
Pikes Peak Challenge, this is not. Audi has posted a video detailing its so-called e-tron pilot project, in which a handful of drivers get to test the battery-electric version of the A3 hatchback. The two-minute video shows the test-drivers – based in Golden, CO – testing the car alon...
B.C. Forbes In a warming region of the Arctic, tundra shrubs are turning into small trees, with big implications. Even as insect infestations and other factors accompanying warming have led to the “browning” of some stretches of boreal forest between temperate regions and the Arctic t...
In the dark-leafy-greens department, spinach can sometimes come off as a lightweight. After all, spinach is not as robust in flavor as mustard greens and broccoli rabe or as sturdy in texture as kale and collards. But dont let this mild-mannered vegetable fool you. Its mellow flavor ...
The jobs number is, at best, banal ephemera. It’s a trivially short snapshot of just one indicator of the immediate state of the U.S. economy, and it’ll be subject to revision a month from now. Yet it’s almost all the financial press, and a lot of media in general, can talk about toda...
It's the mix of tiny details in these photographs that makes them so mesmerizing. The flat, black depths of the pupils; the wrinkles and lines of the irises that seem to resemble rocky terrain; the way the light reflects off the cornea. Every shot draws you in and keeps your attention...
B.C. Forbes In a warming region of the Arctic, tundra shrubs are turning into small trees, with big implications. Even as insect infestations and other factors accompanying warming have led to the “browning” of some stretches of boreal forest between temperate regions and the Arctic t...
racing down the streets of Berlin, here's why. Parent companies Daimler AG and BMW are competing for car-sharing customers in the German capital and now offer car-sharing by the minute, Bloomberg News reports. When you're being charged in 60-second increments, that's enough to make mo...
Amazing Photos of Insects Covered in Dew Get up close and personal with the natural world with these amazing photos. by Jerry James Stone in Natural Sciences 10 All-Purpose Cleaners for a Green Home Use this list to clean without spreading toxic chemicals around your home. by Blythe C...
