A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.
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Yet another biofuel touted as possible winner. Is vegetable oil overhyped as an energy source?
While drugs like Prozac are designed to change brain function, there are other, perhaps less obvious ways pollution can change behavior.
Following complaints, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission is investigating NW Natural’s meter testing program and billing practices.
We must modify our sluggish democracy to act urgently, transform our economy, and save our life support systems. The alternative is for economic change to be delivered brutally by nature. This article continues the highly relevant discussion on the environment and the economy in the articles by Mark Diesendorf, Stephen Williams, Roger Beale and John Continue reading »
An illustration of how different climate-change-induced or intensified problems can interact to do even more damage.
An important debate is developing in Pearls and Irritations on the need to reduce consumption. In his article “Labor’s Environmental Denialism”, Stephen Williams acknowledged several positive steps being taken by the Labor government to help protect the environment, and then argued that Labor was failing to address the fundamental drivers of environmental disaster, which he Continue reading »
A new study found that most biology textbooks devote fewer sentences to climate change than they did before 2010.
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The worldwide sushi industry is under threat due to overfishing of plastic soy sauce fish stocks, with leading marine biologists predicting a collapse of the entire fishery within the next five years. “Ten years ago we used to see schools... Read More ›