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Without realizing it, humans might be able to innately detect Earth’s magnetic field, thanks to a compound found in our eyes. Or we may have been able to do so some time in the past.
Destroying planet earth for profit
Investing $40 billion annually in the forest sector is needed for the world to transition into a low carbon, resource-efficient green economy, according to a UN report released here Sunday.
Google Earth broke new ground (new water?) when they took the world of virtual-earth-exploring oceans. Of course, the oceans are kind of big. They fill up nearly three-quarters of the earth's surface area, and most of that area hasn't been mapped.
But like many of the natural world’s most violent and disruptive events, they sure do make for some incredible photo ops. Chile’s Puyehue, which began erupting on Saturday, is no exception.
Tokyoites are bracing themselves for a scorching, sweat-filled summer, indoors and out due to a government decree to cut electricity usage by 15% this summer thanks to its now-crippled nuclear-power plants.
When you think the government bureaucracy in charge of protecting the environment is watching out for the countries best interest, you should be aware that it’s not exactly what you had in mind or how it really works. In many countries around the w
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“For a variety of reasons, humans usually don’t react to problems until they become crises. All these crises are semi-connected, where one will trigger one or more of the others. At best, they will end our industrial civilization."
There is no denying that Gore and his film deserve the lion's share of the credit (or blame) for launching the wild hysteria to combat "manmade global warming" that swept the nation in 2006.
Hans Welch responded to a call for volunteers where they needed help with pilot whales that had been stranded. The Miami resident was in the water holding the pectoral fin of a stranded whale. He pulled out his waterproof camera and began recording.
Fukushima is by far the worst ever environmental disaster
Growing dangers are concealed
When it comes to protecting themselves from environmental health threats, many Americans have put their trust in the Environmental Protection Agency. Unfortunately, despite the enormous chunk of funding it receives – it requested $10.5 billion dolla
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Unconfirmed reports are circulating of a new, very large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico about 20 miles from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster There are reports that the Coast Guard is investigating a new, very large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexic
Coverup and denial in Japan and West
Millions will die from painful cancers
The scientists analyzed and compared particulate matter in air from the center of a village in Denmark where most residents used wood stoves to a neighboring rural area with few wood stoves, as well as to pure WSPM collected from a wood stove. Airbor
The commission's investigators said BP workers failed to ask a knowledgeable company engineer who was visiting the rig about unexpected results from a critical negative pressure test on the rig. "If anyone had consulted him or any other shore-ba
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“Carrying capacity is the balance point among population, consumption, and waste assimilation. We know what the rates of regeneration, replenishment, and recharge of ecosystems and their constituent parts are."
According to U.S. computer models a regional, limited nuclear war could set-off "unprecedented" worldwide cooling. Rainfall too might be affected. This is the latest climate theory that owes much to the original promoter of nuclear winter, Dr. Carl
Medical and environmental concern about the long environmental persistence and possible effects on human health of PCBs first arose in the 1960s and 1970s and led to a federal ban on the manufacture of PCBs that was imposed in 1976 under the Toxic Su
There is still no consensus as to why lianas are gaining the upper hand. They may survive seasonal droughts that are becoming more common as climate becomes more variable. They may recover more quickly from natural disturbances such as hurricanes and
The activity of the sun not only drives the weather, but to a great extent also drives the world's economy: Farming, fishing, horticulture, solar industries, even the chemical industry and animal husbandry depend on a quiet, predictable sun. But whe
Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor. That report is at
If anyone had any doubt that the world's volcanoes are all becoming more active they need look no farther than the giant Mt. Nyiragongo in the east Congo. Vulcanologists monitoring the awakening giant believe that previous eruptions may be dwarfed b
Before Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” “The Unchained Goddess” warned millions of students in middle school classrooms across the United States of global warming for decades. This documentary produced in 1958 by F
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The original people of this continent, living here thousands of years, maintained a pristine environment. New arrivals from Europe trashed North America inside of 150 years. That’s unreasonable and immoral.
University of Iceland geophysicists warn of significant rise in seismic activity in the area of Vatnajökull, the largest of Iceland’s glaciers. A swarm of earthquakes has erupted signaling the likely eruption of Bardarbunga, Iceland's second bigges
Business owner? Got some cash on hand to weather the bad times? Maybe you’ve trimmed down, gone lean, reworked your delivery and material handling so you can minimize the rehandling of your product as it flows through your warehouse. Possibly, you
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Population growth can be reduced to zero or made negative by three and only three ways--a) By violence, starvation, rape, disease, ethnic cleansing and other horrors after humanity has exceeded the carrying capacity of the earth....
