The value of wilderness

Our concept of energy and our definition of wilderness seem to go hand-in-hand more and more these days; whether we are speaking about natural gas extraction methods or mountaintop coal mining or concentrating...

Australia's coral reef growth is slowest ever

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced the slowest coral growth ever in the past 400 years. This decline of growth rate puts the species that the reef supports in danger of not being able to sustain them...

Over-fishing, not climate change, is greatest danger to world's oceans

The biggest threat to our world's oceans, is not climate change, but over fishing and our ever increasing demand for water.An new study actually released yesterday, which involved 100 top aquatic ecologists,...

$27 million dollar project to save birds, bees, and bats

From my website:"This week, the Global Environment Facility, has launched a new $27 million dollar project with the goal of saving animals that are needed to pollinate the many crops of the world. The United...

Sunscreen Use Causes Bleaching in Coral Reefs

Sunscreen use is highly recommended by doctors and dermatologists to help prevent melanoma and other skin cancers and diseases. However, once you dive into the water and it starts to come off, where does all that...

New Study Shows Extent of Harmful Human Influences on Global Marine Ecosystems

Newly published scientific data showing that humans really have spoiled their habitat. Remember the saying "Act Local Think Global"? Its not too late to change our practices!Start with a copy of the Chemical Maze...

Should global warming get a new name?

Is global warming too cutesy a term?  Some scientists and writers say the phrase doesn't capture the gravity of the problem and have suggested phrases like "global disruption," "global heating,"  and...

Map shows toll on world's oceans

The BBC is reporting on the environmental devastation being wrought on the world's oceans. View the map here."Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed...

Biofuel crops may worsen global warming: study

OpinionBarry Artiste, Straight Facts Environmentalist, Now Public Contributor Gee, and to think I reported these same concerns months ago in my many stories on Junk Science. Clearing forests to make arable...

The Dinosaurs of Carnegie

Do you ever get that nagging feeling that you've missed your calling? I didn't, not until today... I could have been a Dinosaur Diorama Engineer."An Apatosaurus rears its head in anger, swinging its tail wildly,...

West Nile Devastated U.S. Bird Species

"West Nile virus or a similar disease could wipe out many of the U.S.'s backyard birds, profoundly changing some of the country's most familiar wildlife and ecosystems. That's the finding of a new analysis of 26...

Extremophile Fish dance on sulphur cauldrons (+Video)

From BBC News (UK): Scientists have witnessed the extreme lifestyle of tonguefish that like to skip across pools of molten sulphur (sulfur).The animals - a type of flatfish** - were filmed on three expeditions to...

Voyage reveals bizarre life around deep-sea gas seeps (Video)

An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around methane seeps off New Zealand's east coast.'This is...

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