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...

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...

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,...

Invasion of the Ecosystem: Alien Species Scarier than Fiction

"Nomura's jellyfish Japan They look more like something out of Doctor Who than the jellyfish seen in European waters. But since last year Japan's coastline was invaded by the massive sea creatures which can grow...