Monthly Archives: January 2012
Scientists Unite to Challenge Global Warming
Sixteen scientists have moved to ramp up scepticism over climate change with a weekend opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.
The group says the world has not been heating up in the past decade and that there’s no urgent need for...
Australia Helps Fiji Prepare For Natural Disasters
Natural disasters take lives, shatter communities, inflict devastating economic losses and erode hard-won development gains. Over the past 50 years natural disasters have affected almost four million people in the Pacific, or half the current...
Oil Extraction Only Hurts Earth
As a ninth-grader at Columbus North High School and a member of the Columbus North Environmental Club, I was pleased that President Obama rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline contract with TransCanada Oil recently.
This issue has been very important...
Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
It must be weird sometimes to be in Nada Surf, if only because they still get judged by a song that becomes increasingly unrepresentative of their body of work. I’m referring, of course, to “Popular,” from their pretty nifty grunge-esque...
Beijing vs. U.S. Embassy on PM 2.5 : Comparing Pollution Data
Beijing’s municipal government began releasing new air-pollution data over the weekend that will likely raise questions among government critics who worry that authorities aren’t going far enough to better track air quality.
On Saturday,...
DA Sees Agriculture-Sector Growth at 4%-5% in 2012
Despite lower than expected growth in 2011, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is confident that it will be able to achieve a full-year growth of between 4 percent and 5 percent this year.
In 2011 the farm sector was only able to post a growth...
US Agriculture Report
Mar Wheat finished + 0.0925 at 619.75, and 0.0175 off the high and + 0.0625 from the low. Mar Wheat closed sharply higher on the session and back up near the early highs as the market recovered from the mid-session set-back. Strength in the...
Arctic Ozone on the Edge?
In yet another climate change paradox, warmer temperatures in the lower layers of the atmosphere may be cooling the high-elevation stratosphere, where researchers last year documented for the first time ever a massive hole in the ozone layer...
Global Warming Could be Similar Across Ecosystems
The impact of global warming could be similar across ecosystems, regardless of local environmental conditions and species.
A team from Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, which went to Iceland to study a set of geothermally-heated...
Recycling CFLs Keeps Mercury from Environment
In response to Horatio Couture’s letter, “Mercury hazards of CFLs, the green energy bulbs,” published Jan. 12, the Natural Resources Council of Maine has worked for decades to prevent toxic pollution. This includes mercury...
