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Environment
Giant Snails Invade Floride, Scientist and Politicians Join Forces!
Environment
Kathy
- 6 minutes ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Environment
Kathy
- 6 minutes ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Now found throughout the world, including the contiguous United States and Hawaii, these invasive plant-eaters pose a particular danger in Florida because of its vibrant agricultural industry. Ecologist Nick Carangi expresses concern and solicits aid.
Environment
Johnny
- 23 minutes ago - examiner.com
A Texas woman is dead after a vicious lightning strike Tuesday night in the city of Lufkin.
Environment
Evelyn
- 2 hours ago - thewatchers.adorraeli.com
Potential Impacts: Radiation - Passengers and crew in high latitude, high altitude flights may experience small, increased radiation exposures.
Spacecraft - Infrequent single-event upsets to satellites are possible.
Radio - Small effects on polar HF
Environment
Cher
- 2 hours ago - secure.nrdconline.org
The level of heat-trapping CO2 has cracked the once-unthinkable barrier of 400 parts per million for the first time in at least three million years. Unless our leaders act boldly and decisively now, we could reach 450 within two decades, triggering
Environment
Stefanie
- 2 hours ago - ecowatch.com
Disaster is about to strike in western Kentucky, a full-blown nuclear catastrophe involving hundreds of tons of enriched uranium tainted with plutonium, technetium, arsenic, beryllium and a toxic chemical brew.
Your Supermarket Is Selling Rainforest Destruction! Get the Facts On Palm Oil and the US Snack Food Industry.
Environment
Chrissy
- 2 hours ago - understory.ran.org
Environment
Chrissy
- 2 hours ago - understory.ran.org
Your Supermarket is Selling Rainforest Destruction! Get the Facts On Palm Oil and the US Snack Food Industry.
Trained Bees to Help Detect Land Mines
Environment
Wild
- 5 hours ago - nationofchange.org
Environment
Wild
- 5 hours ago - nationofchange.org
While the study is underway, it will soon determine if foraging bees are a reliable and cheap solution to detecting land mines and saving the land.
Environment
Environme
- 5 hours ago - edf.org
Not when they are excess, small-diameter "trash trees" that are thirsty, deadly and ecologically polluting.
Environment
Roseann
- 6 hours ago - grist.org
Companies from Japan and Canada want to build the mine on land held sacred by Native Americans, and the U.S. Forest Service may just say OK.
Environment
Roseann
- 6 hours ago - grist.org
Refining Canadian tar-sands oil creates mountains of filthy black waste, as the residents of Detroit are discovering. Other American communities can look forward to the same.
Environment
Marusha
- 6 hours ago - saynotopalmoil.com
By purchasing products that contain crude palm oil, you are helping destroy ancient, pristine rainforest, wipe out species like the orangutan, and create a large-scale ecological disaster. Think of the consequences next time you do your weekly shopping.
Environment
John
- 8 hours ago - blogs.scientificamerican.com
Caecilians, like the frogs and salamanders to which they are related, are apparently now at risk from the deadly chytrid fungus, which has already caused hundreds of amphibian extinctions around the globe.
Environment
Elizabeth
- 9 hours ago - secure.nrdconline.org
The EPA has just confirmed -- once again -- that large-scale mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed would endanger its pristine environment, legendary salmon runs and Native communities. Tell EPA's Acting Administrator Robert Perciasepe to exercise his...
Environment
Stefanie
- 9 hours ago - ecowatch.com
Twenty concerned citizens occupied Illinois Gov. Pat. Quinn's office Tuesday to protest his support of a state bill to regulate hydraulic fracturing.
Forest Department Hamstrung By Severe Staff Shortage
Environment
Jaya
- 10 hours ago - conservationindia.org
Environment
Jaya
- 10 hours ago - conservationindia.org
While multiple laws and guidelines exist in Delhi for the preservation of trees, the primary reason why the forest department has been unable to implement any of them is because it is severely short of manpower.
Environment
Cal
- 10 hours ago - spiegel.de
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is rapidly losing its coral, to the point that UNESCO may soon place the natural wonder on its "in danger" list. Climate change is one culprit, but so is the country's booming extraction industry. Environmentalists warn that
Environment
Rinkesh
- 12 hours ago - conserve-energy-future.com
Causes and Effects of Global Dimming: Global warming and global dimming are opposite phenomena. Global dimming is defined as the decrease in the amounts of solar radiation reaching the surface of the Earth.
Monsanto - A Devil Disguised as Our Saviour From Hunger
Environment
Jaman
- 12 hours ago - facebook.com
Environment
Jaman
- 12 hours ago - facebook.com
time to show Monsanto the door
Environment
Tovah
- 12 hours ago - davidsuzuki.org
If the grass seems greener on the other side of the fence, it might be toxic! Commit to pesticide-free lawn care at home and in your community.
Environment
Frans
- 15 hours ago - nspca.co.za
Choices you make in your own garden have a direct effect on animals and the environment. Here's how to make your garden greener and more welcoming to wildlife.
Environment
David
- 16 hours ago - youtube.com
A woman whose home was flattened by a deadly tornado in Oklahoma City was reunited with her dog as a CBS crew recorded an interview with her.
Environment
Kathy
- 21 hours ago - abcbirds.org
The `Ua`u is threatened by introduction of non-native predators such as rats and cats to its nesting islands. The birds are also attracted to artificial lights, which puts them at risk of collision with power lines, guy wires, and other man-made structure
Environment
Nancy
- 21 hours ago - actnow.greateryellowstone.org
A proposed rule asks the public -- and pointedly asks the snowmobile industry -- whether the very provisions Wenk has touted should be dropped, delayed or not required of all snowmobiles.
Environment
Julie
- 22 hours ago - action.fooddemocracynow.org
The Monsanto Protection Act is the most outrageous corporate handout in recent history.It strips judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer rights and the environment, while allowing the planting of new untested genetically engineered crop
Environment
Kathy
- 22 hours ago - theworld.org
To begin with, although the bottom of the deep ocean looks barren, it's actually teeming with life. And Rod Fujita, of the Environmental Defense Fund, says no one knows how long it would take these ecosystems to bounce back from mining.
Environment
G
- 1 day ago - unitedwithisrael.org
A team of Israeli experts from Ben-Gurion University is working to preserve biodiversity on the Galapagos Islands.
An Israeli team of experts hailing from Ben-Gurion University has signed a cooperation agreement with the National Directorate of the Ga
Environment
G
- 1 day ago - greenpeace.org
A US company is planning to tear down a chunk of rainforest the size of 100,000 soccer fields for a palm oil project.
The area of forest is home to thousands of Cameroonian people who rely on it for subsistence farming; people who stand to lose their
Environment
Roseann
- 1 day ago - alternet.org
My kids and their friends and everyone roughly their age will, in fact, be the last human beings to remember a stable, predictable procession of seasons.
Alaska Tribal Coalition Fights Chemical Dispersant Oil Spill Response Enforcement
Environment
John
- 1 day ago - bsnorrell.blogspot.ca
Environment
John
- 1 day ago - bsnorrell.blogspot.ca
The words of an Alaskan tribal elder, "We watched our family and friends die," represent the feelings of many about the use of chemical dispersants in their waters.
Environment
Frans
- 1 day ago - snre.umich.edu
Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction.......
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