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Deforestation Dries Up Dams Threatening Hydropower... Posted in Ecosystems, Environmental Economics/Politics, Environmental Issues on 05 26th, 2013 | No Comments
Deforestation may lead to electricity shortages in tropical rainforest regions that rely heavily on hydropower, as fewer trees mean less rainfall for hydropower generation, a study shows. The rest is here: Deforestation Dries Up Dams Threatening Hydropower  Read More →
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New Anti-Staph Drugs... Posted in Ecosystems, Environmental Economics/Politics, Environmental Issues, Living Green on 05 26th, 2013 | No Comments
Bugs and infections are growing ever stronger and more resistant to the antibiotics and the like. A team of Wisconsin scientists has synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections. They describe these new agents as effectively interfering... 
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Ocean Acidification and Deep-sea Organisms... Posted in Environmental Economics/Politics, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment on 05 26th, 2013 | No Comments
Although the natural absorption of CO2 by the world’s oceans help mitigate climate effects, the resulting decrease in pH causes ocean acidification which can have negative consequences for much of the marine life, specifically calcifiers such as corals and mollusks that construct their... 
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Memorial Day Travel will Cost Americans over $1 Billion on Gasoline... Posted in Environmental Economics/Politics, Environmental Issues, Living Green on 05 26th, 2013 | No Comments
Memorial Day not only marks the day we pay tribute to those who have served in the United States Armed Forces, but it also marks the first unofficial weekend that kicks off the summer. With that said, tens of millions of Americans are expected to get away this weekend and according to an analysis... 
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Free Range Milk?... Posted in Ecosystems, Environmental Issues on 05 25th, 2013 | No Comments
Free-Range Dairy is a new initiative that could reverse the trend towards industrialised mega-farms. The Ecologist office is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty within a United Nations Biosphere Reserve. Hartland peninsular is dotted with steep, wooded valleys where bluebells, early... 
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Jaffna aquifer depleting from overuse... Posted in Indoor Environment on 05 25th, 2013 | No Comments
The single limestone aquifer, which is the main source of freshwater in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna peninsula, is gradually depleting through overuse, researchers say. “The area suffers from severe groundwater imbalance which might reach crisis proportions in the future,”... 
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To Walk or to Climb... Posted in Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment on 05 25th, 2013 | No Comments
To walk on two or four limbs, that is the question… Jeremy M. DeSilva an anthropologist at Worcester University in Massachusetts has published Functional Morphology of the Ankle and the Likelihood of Climbing in Early Hominins, in the peer-reviewed journal, Proceeding of the National... 
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Zen and the art of bridge maintenance
Zen and the art of bridge maintenance... Posted in Article, Infrastructure, Living Green on 05 24th, 2013 | No Comments
The collapse of an Interstate 5 bridge in Washington state Thursday night offered a wake-up call about the sorry state of disrepair in which we’ve left our country’s auto-centric transportation system. But all the talk about aging bridges and infrastructure drowns out a few larger... 
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Fracking accident leaks benzene into Colorado stream
Fracking accident leaks benzene into Colorado stream... Posted in Climate & Energy, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Living Green on 05 24th, 2013 | No Comments
Garfield County Officials in Parachute, Colo., stopped the flow of creek water into a reservoir following a natural-gas fluid spill. Once again, Colorado’s fracking boom has residents wondering if there’s something in the water — carcinogenic benzene, in this case. A plant... 
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Arctic base evacuated as ice dissolves beneath researchers’ feet
Arctic base evacuated as ice dissolves beneath researchers’ feet... Posted in Climate & Energy, Living Green on 05 24th, 2013 | No Comments
Shutterstock Though it carries major supervillain cred, placing a scientific research station atop an Arctic ice floe in an era of global warming is a dicey proposition — even for the Russians. North Pole 40 , a Russian science station that monitors pollution and conducts meteorological... 
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