I haven’t been caving since I was a youngster. At 6′ 4″ and moderately claustrophobic, that’s probably a good thing. Nevertheless, I’m still fascinated by what lies beneath the surface, so to help make up for missed adventures, this week’s Friday Night at the Movies presents a double-feature.
In our first video, Hazel Barton, Ph.D., from [...]
From time to time, we browse recently released Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports* and highlight those with potential interest to our readers. For your convenience, we’ve attempted to categorize the list but note that many documents cross over categories (e.g., many of those in energy and environment, or environment and health).
If you’re unfamiliar with CRS [...]
China is becoming more active in the battle to combat global warming by pressing for developed nations to share more “green” technology to the world’s poorest nations, and they want the world’s richest nations to pay for it.
A senior Chinese official for climate change policy, Gao Guangsheng, said that the current global economic crisis should [...]
In a recent program for Ecology Radio, David Steinman interviewed Pete Altman, Climate Campaign director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the broadly supported Green Jobs report released by the NRDC and the Center for American Progress in late September. If you haven’t listened to the program, I encourage you to do so.
Food supply is an issue for millions of people worldwide facing soaring market prices, impacts of climate change on food harvests, and other agricultural problems. With the world population estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050, problems of food security demand significant advances in agricultural productivity and competitiveness.
In 1610, Galileo Galilei rocked Europe with his published account of four heavenly objects that appeared to orbit the planet Jupiter. We know them today as Jupiter’s largest moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — but at the time, his observations flew in the face of the long-held belief that all heavenly bodies orbited [...]
Climate change is emerging as the latest threat to the world’s dwindling fish stocks, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
At least three quarters of the globe’s key fishing grounds may become seriously impacted by changes in circulation as a result of the ocean’s natural pumping systems fading and falling. These [...]
I’ve always wanted to be the perfect recycler. Recently, I had some terribly worn hiking boots and wanted to recycle them.
I did some online research and found out that recycling your shoes is, indeed, possible. I went to www.soles4souls.org and found out that this great group of people will take gently worn footwear to give [...]
World energy consumption is projected to grow by 50 percent between by 2030, driven by robust economic growth and expanding populations in the world’s developing countries, according to the International Energy Outlook 2008 Report (IEO Report) released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Average world oil prices in every year since 2003 have been higher than the average for the [...]
Answering the question of what is true energy independence is the most critical one to get right in this nation’s history
The next big journey for the green movement will no longer be on an individual level. Instead it has to be on a national and international level. It is only when we see how encompassing [...]
Tropical plant and animal species living in some of the warmest places on Earth may be threatened by global warming, according to University of Connecticut Ecologist Robert K. Colwell.
As Earth’s climate has warmed in recent decades, the geographical ranges of well-studied bird, butterfly, and plant species in the US and Europe have moved northward, following [...]
Scientists and researchers say renewable forms of energy can help provide a new energy future that is cleaner, improves global security, strengthens the economy and contributes positively to the quality of life for all. Contributing to the urgency of developing this new energy future is the prediction from the Energy Information Agency that U.S. energy [...]
