Mountains of salt are spread on snowy roads in North America every winter, despite the fact that environmentalists have been warning against it for years. Well, studies are piling up, indicating indeed that the cost may be too high.
Martin Mittelstaedt reports in the Globe and Mail about a new study of Frenchman’s Bay, a [...]
The British novelist Ian McEwan, inspired by the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, changed the finished manuscript of his new book about a scientist working on a technology to address global warming.
The end of the book is set in summer 2009, and McEwan introduced a new scene, in the last few pages, in which [...]
Victims of Hurricane Katrina are moving to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the tragic 2005 storm.
The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains during the storm, was first filed just weeks after Katrina hit in August of 2005.
The [...]
February 9, 2010 – 7:49 am
Electricity is something which should be respected, not something to be feared. This is not a recommendation to stick your finger in the socket, that’s common sense.
What I mean to say is that there is a new ability out there that could accelerate the mass deployment of electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars, that is, [...]
February 8, 2010 – 11:44 am
The term “seed bombing” has been used steadily since the 70’s when the guerrilla gardening movement began. Since then, we have been exposed to all sorts of inventive types of seed bombs. The original type was a condom filled with fertilizer, water and wildflower seeds, but most guerrilla gardeners use the all-natural kind made of [...]
February 7, 2010 – 7:19 am
NASA decided to give its Cassini spacecraft mission a 6 ½-year life extension to continue exploring Saturn and its moons.
Cassini was launched in 1997 and first arrived at Saturn in 2004 after flying by Earth, Venus and Jupiter. It carried the Huygens probe on board, which it sent to the surface of the moon Titan [...]
January 14, 2010 – 1:43 pm
Haitians piled heaps of lifeless bodies along the streets of their capital Wednesday after a massive earthquake wrecked thousands of structures. Untold numbers were still trapped. The Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation is devastated.
The earthquake which came on Tuesday afternoon was a magnitude-7.0. It was the biggest earthquake to happen in the Caribbean in 200 [...]
December 3, 2009 – 12:37 pm
Mountaintop Removal Mining is a coal-mining practice used commonly by Appalachian miners which not only destroys the surface of mountain tops but also the valleys below, and contaminates the waterways. Not good, people, not good.
A local West Virginian activist, 81-year-old Roland Micklem, is protesting the practice of Mountaintop Removal Mining by going on a [...]
November 22, 2009 – 12:12 am
Skiing and snowboarding are fun, beautiful, healthy, exciting and sexy – really all that and a bag of chips. However it is obvious that these hipster pastimes, cause somewhat of an environmental threat – though fret not extreme sports folk, there is a way to be environmentally safe when you hit the slopes this winter. [...]
November 19, 2009 – 2:39 pm
Sky watchers from Asia and North America too – you’re in for a great galactic treat!
During the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, the annual Leonid meteor shower will light up the sky with delight for the eye. This year it should be visible to anyone who lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Leonids are created by [...]
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