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How to save the reefs
The world should safeguard coral reefs with networks of small no-fishing zones to confront threats such as climate change, and shift from favoring single, big protected areas, a U.N. study showed View post: How to save the reefs Read More →
As Greenland Melts
The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 660,235 square miles, roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the World, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Read the original here: As Greenland Melts Read More →
Giant Greenland Iceberg — Largest in the Northern Hemisphere — Enters Nares Strait
ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2010) — ESA’s (European Space Agency) Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland’s Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010 Read the original: Giant Greenland Iceberg — Largest in the Northern Hemisphere — Enters Nares Strait Read More →
Tropical Storm Hermine slams into far northeastern Mexico
Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into northeastern Mexico near the Texas border on Monday, dumping heavy rain on a region still recovering from Hurricane Alex’s visit in June. Read the original here: Tropical Storm Hermine slams into far northeastern Mexico Read More →
Sunny Delight Achieves Zero Waste in U.S.
Sunny Delight Beverages Company’s recently released 2009 Sustainability Report outlines the company’s accomplishments over the past year, the most significant being the achievement of their Zero Waste to Landfill Goal by all U.S. and Spanish manufacturing plants more than 3 years ahead of schedule. The zero waste goals were achieved at Sunny’s Anaheim, Mataro and Littleton plants in 2009, 4 years... [Read more]
Once More in the Gulf of Mexico
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters stretching from the far eastern coast of Louisiana, through Mississippi, Alabama, and the western Florida panhandle. The Mariner Energy oil platform just had an explosion is about 250 miles from today’s reopening See original here: Once More in the... [Read more]
Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution
A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution’s existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life’s preordained course, or send life careening down wholly new paths. Some scientists have suggested the former More here: Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution Read More →
Report on Minerals Management Service’s Environmental Decisions Regarding Off-Shore Oil and Gas
On August 16, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a report (CEQ Report) summarizing the findings of a thirty-day review of the U.S. Read more: Report on Minerals Management Service’s Environmental Decisions Regarding Off-Shore Oil and Gas Read More →
Indonesian Volcanos
The geography of Indonesia is dominated by volcanoes that are formed due to subduction zones between the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate. Some of the volcanoes are notable for their eruptions, for instance, Krakatau for its global effects in 1883, Lake Toba for its supervolcanic eruption estimated to have occurred 74,000 Before Present which was responsible for several years of cold of... [Read more]
Priceless rock art in National Conservation Lands being defaced, destroyed, stolen
Ongoing investigations of sites within our National Conservation Lands in the Southwest and southern California are uncovering evidence of cultures and traditions dating back thousands of years. These sites are providing a one-of-a-kind opportunity to research, study, and assess how these different cultures lived and adapted. Something new is being found all the time Read more here: Priceless rock... [Read more]
