Pipeline will make it easier for the world’s most environmentally destructive project-
In addition, there is growing evidence that sending the “oil” down the pipeline to Texas will result not in use the U.S., but exports to China. Of course, Republicans and oil state politicians say this will reduce U.S. oil dependence. Yea right!
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Continue Reading →What are they going to eat if they have to come ashore in the summer?
Walrus rest on the floating ice and dive to the ocean floor for food, but now almost all of the summer Arctic sea ice is over water too deep to dive. As a result walrus are coming ashore, sometimes in [...]
Continue Reading →Plants, and animals that can, shift north, head upslope, and faster than predicted-
After analyzing 2000 species, biological scientists at York University found that on the average, “species have moved to higher elevations at 12.2 metres per decade and, more dramatically, to higher latitudes at 17.6 kilometres per decade.” This is about 2 [...]
Continue Reading →Lamb, beef and cheese have the highest emissions
The Environmental Working Group recently published a report assessing the climate change and environmental impacts of meat production. They found that not all meats have the same impact.
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Continue Reading →There has been a lot of discussion about Murdoch’s sudden legal and political troubles. Given that he is one of the most dangerous people on the planet, it is hard to have sympathy. Today “This week in Science,” in Daily Kos is about the matter (but [...]
Continue Reading →Another surprise. The real carbon absorbers are the temperate and boreal forests. Tropical forests are too compromised by humans-
One of the best things that could happen to the future of our existence, IMO, would be the collapse of News Corps in the current scandal. [...]
Continue Reading →“Reduced grazing saves carbon”
A few years ago we discussed a Wohlfahrt study in the Mojave Desert which strongly suggested that desert ecosystems may play a significant role in sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere and sinking it into the soil. Studies in Germany likewise demonstrated that human impact to soils both decreases the amount of [...]
Continue Reading →Dumb, dumber, and damn dangerous-
Republican’s Climate Solution: Clear-Cut the Rain Forest. By John Collins Rudolf. New York Times.
If he is so stupid he doesn’t know trees suck up carbon dioxide, not emit it, what about his views on the economy, medicine, national [...]
Continue Reading →Escalation of Western Water Wars Loom
The finite availability of western water is part of the reason Ralph Maughan previously posed the question : Will the resource sucking “sin city” be reclaimed by the desert ? Perhaps eventually, but in the meantime – despite setbacks, the Southern Nevada Water Authority keeps stretching its [...]
Continue Reading →Idaho landowners and conservationists to get help from Montana allies-
National Wildlife Federation Prepared to Sue Montana Over Mega-loads. By George Prentice. Boise Weekly.
Exxon is now getting ready to test taking the megaloads up Highway 12 and through Montana. There could be as many as 200 gigantic loads from Exxon sent to [...]
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