Category: Environment

Please call your representative today to stop the export of horses for slaughter for human consumption to other countries by asking them to sign onto HR503. It seems like every time the will of the people is expressed in trying to stop horse slaughter someone finds a way to work around it.
There [...]

This kid is amazing to me. While many of us were gnashing out teeth about all Bush’s efforts to rape our land before he leaves office, he stepped up and did something. He went into the auction for federal land adjoining parks, a sale designed to prevent the parks expansion in the [...]

The Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog, Rana sierrae, breeds in shallow ponds that do not have fish in the Sierra mountains that are created by spring melt-offs of the winters snow. Due to fluctuations in rain and snowfall due to GCC these small ponds dry up quickly in some years and it’s been found that [...]

So what you say? Well, she wasn’t trained to, she just saw her keeper doing it and decided that making that sound was fun. It says a lot about apes ability to learn vocalization rather than just inherit them genetically. Who knows, someday, a great ape may hail you a cab! [...]

Here’s Chu from Feb 2008. Nobel prize winner Chu is in favor of alternative energy, especially solar but also including nuclear, to ameliorate our energy woes.

Chu is the head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory which has recently signed a deal to do research reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from [...]

One fifth of the worlds reefs have died already due to the seas being too warm and the added stress of pollution according to a recent presentation to the UN. Carbon Dioxide pollution is acidifying the seas. One Fifth of the worlds reefs are gone already and all of them could be gone [...]

In a new article released today, a meta-analysis of ozone research shows that increasing levels of ground level ozone has reduced deciduous tree growth by 10 percent and may reduce it further to 17 percent by the end of the century. It likely does this by attacking RuBisCO, an enzyme critical in photosynthesis. [...]

According to the AP, Al Gore is flying in to Chicago on Tuesday, to meet with President Elect Barack Obama and VP elect Joe Biden. Could this be our new Global Warming Czar? Energy Czar? Fix the Economy Greenly Prince?
The article on CNN includes:
“The Gore trip is for more than [...]

A new study released yesterday shows that the sea around Chesapeake Bay is being harmed by runoff from agricultural fertilizers. According to a study done by John Hopkins University, “The combination of the increasing use of fertilizers, deforestation and the draining of wetlands and floodplains to provide more land for crops, has led to [...]

]according to Stephen Colbert on Colbert Nation. And when he says that, I get it, it’s comedy. But McCain’s attack on the bear DNA study is an attack on science and environmentalism and people need to start calling him on it. The anti intellectual bent of the Republican party and the ignorance of [...]

and Brian Williams tells it as a good news story. Due to the cooling southerly Atlantic currents along the coast of the Americas a whole waddle of penguins didn’t know when it was time to turn around and swam past their survival boundaries to crawl exhausted and starving onto shore in Brazil. [...]

Here is where I will be discussing issues related to the environment or anything remotely science or health related.  The below picture is just an example of the beauty of the world around us and why we should protect it.