TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| As Bats Die, Closing Caves to Control a Fungus Federal officials are preparing to close thousands of caves and former mines in 33 states in an effort to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats. nytimes.com |
The Persistent Prophet--Lester Brown's New-Found Optimism Lester Brown asks for a window seat whenever he flies so that he can look down at the earth. That’s one more vantage point from which to view the evolving environmental panorama he has been examining for almost half a century. He spends a lot of time in the air, heading to audiences in all corners of the planet where his controversial predictions have gained attention.Over the years Brown, who founded the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, both in Washington, D.C., has often seemed a gloomy prophet. The subtitles of his most recent worldwide best sellers, the Plan B series, attest to this impression: Rescuing a Planet under Stress, A Civilization in Trouble and, with added urgency, Mobilizing to Save Civilization. He has warned of potentially destabilizing and costly food shortages, populations outstripping dwindling natural resources, water tables falling precipitously and glaciers retreating, bringing drought and floods. Critics have told him to lighten up: humanity has a way of adapting. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Joule Biotechnologies announce new biofuel jargon, scant details Basically, all you gotta do is you put your Helioculture TM into your scalable SolarConverter TM and, voila, out comes your SolarFuel TM liquid energy! [More] rss.sciam.com |
Hispanics Face Higher Cancer Risk from Breathing Household Chemicals Elena Rios still remembers going into the bathroom as a child and smelling a pungent odor from the big, round air freshener hanging on the back of the toilet. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Are lower catch limits enough to save the bluefin tuna from extinction? Bluefin tuna fishing in the Atlantic will be reduced nearly 40 percent in 2010, but will that be enough to save this threatened species from extinction? [More] rss.sciam.com |