(Third in a series of three posts).
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Episodes 5 and 6 of NASA’s, Science [...]
(Second in a series of three posts).
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Episodes 3 and 4 of NASA’s, Science [...]
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Produced by NASA, Science for A Hungry World explores the application of science [...]
One of the fascinating aspects of science is that the more we learn, the more we discover there is to be learned. Led by curiosity and our desire to understand, we investigate the wonders of the universe, only to find it more wondrous than we imagined.
Human nature being as it is, much of what we [...]
To dramatize the threat posed by rising sea levels due to global warming, Mohamed Nasheed, president of Maldives, has scheduled a Cabinet meeting for this Saturday, at which members will call upon on the international community to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The catch? They’ll be underwater.
Maldives is a nation of 1,200 coral islands with an [...]
Every other day it seems, we hear about Arctic or Antarctic or glacial ice melting because Earth is warming. Just last week, we learned that Arctic temperatures are higher than they’ve been anytime in the last 2000 years.
Some of the effects of melting ice are local, such as the loss of habitat, but other effects [...]
It’s that time of year again, when thousands of iconoclasts gather in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada for a week of serious creativity and fun.
Is it art or grassroots innovation? An experiment in community or an expression of radical, individualism and self-reliance? The short answer is, yes. All that and more. Including a [...]
Catamar, an innovative anti-pollution vessel designed to clean up floating ocean debris and oil spills, took to the seas of of western France earlier this year. Designed and built by ecoceane, the ship employs new methods for both hydrocarbon and solid waste recovery.
Previous technology employs skimmers, built into outrigger booms at each side of the [...]
In the year 2000, The Millenium Seed Bank Project was launched as an international effort to preserve the biodiversity of Earth’s plant life by collecting, cataloging, and storing seeds from around the world.
The motivation was simple. All animal life depends upon plants, and plants depend upon seeds. so the Project serves as something of an [...]
On September 26, 1991, Jane Poynter and seven others embarked on a 2-year experiment in Biosphere 2, a three-acre, sealed environment in the Arizona desert designed to model the complex interactions involved in a self-sustaining ecosystem.
Like Earth — the original biosphere — Biosphere 2 was a materially closed system, dependent upon external systems only for [...]
Between 1750 and 2000, the world’s human population increased more than sevenfold, from about 790 million to 6 billion. By 2040, that number is expected to reach 9 billion.
The impact of such growth on the face of the planet and the species with whom we share it has been profound. As we are now beginning [...]
Mountaintop mining, more commonly known as “mountaintop removal,†ranks among the ugliest and most violent examples of man’s disrespect for nature.
Most prevalent in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, mountaintop mining became widespread in the 1980s, and involves literally blasting up to 1,000 feet from the tops of mountains to expose the [...]
