AFP: Shipowners are showing growing interest in a fabled trade route to Asia which climate…
Month: September 2010
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill’s 30-Year Legacy
IPS: A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill…
United States: Koch firm donates $1 million to campaign to suspend climate change law
Sacramento Bee: An oil company headed by billionaires David and Charles Koch has contributed $1…
Time To Get Tough, Environmentalists Say
NPR: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I’m Ira Flatow. Up first this hour: Has…
Is Organically Produced Food More Nutritious?
NPR: Reporting in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers write that organically grown strawberries contain more…
Fears grow over global food supply
Financial Times: Wheat prices rose further on Friday in the wake of Russia’s decision to…
Energy in Brazil: Ethanol’s mid-life crisis
Economist: IT IS what passes for a winter’s day in upstate São Paulo. The sun…
Earth ‘facing mass extinction’
AAP: THE world is facing a mass extinction event that could be greater than that…
More CO2 means more poison ivy
UPI: Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may threaten climate change and be bad news…
Few B.C. homeowners eager to convert to solar power
Vancouver Sun: British Columbians may know that green power is good power, but homeowners are…