December 27, 2006

High levels of carbon dioxide around Yellowstone thermal vents help scientists predict effects of our future atmosphere on plants

December 27, 2006

Ralph Maughan

A number of the thermal vents in Yellowstone release high levels of carbon dioxide, the very gas that is building up in our atmosphere. Carbon dixoide is a crucial element for photosynthesis, and some have argued that the growing levels of this gas will make the world greener, better. Unfortunately they tend to work for…
Bush Administration proposes listing the polar bear as a threatened species

December 27, 2006

Ralph Maughan

Most listings nowadays, and in the past, have come from conservation groups forcing the species onto the “list,” but in an unusual move the Bush Administration has proposed listing the polar bear, which is suffering the effects of warming in the Arctic. That melts the ice the bears need to hunt from. The polar bear…

‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”
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High levels of carbon dioxide around Yellowstone thermal vents help scientists predict effects of our future atmosphere on plants

Bush Administration proposes listing the polar bear as a threatened species

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