Some prominent environmentalists–as well as Senators McCain and Lieberman, who back legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions–are supporting further development of nuclear power to serve as an emission-free bridge to an economy based entirely on renewable energy.
While tour operators and travel agents around the world may tout their trips as “eco-tours,” environmentally conscious travelers take a variety of considerations into account when determining whether or not any given excursion qualifies as such.
For 20 years now, the organization American Rivers, in its annual “Most Endangered Rivers” report, has highlighted rivers around the U.S. that have the worst chronic problems in need of attention. This year the organization took a new approach and focused on those “facing the most uncertain futures.”
Spray insulation is commonly used to fill spaces in unfinished walls, attics and floors. Most of it is made from polyurethane and “closed foam cells,” which means it forms a nearly impenetrable barrier. The material is widely recognized as a highly efficient insulator, effectively reducing heat transfer.
In his book <I>Our Final Hour</I>, Cambridge professor and Britain’s "Astronomer Royal" Martin Rees predicts humanity has no more than a 50-50 chance of survival into the next century and that by 2020 a million people will perish due to scientific error or terror. Some would call him prescient, while others would interpret his words as alarmist, resembling a layer cake with environmental fears on top of nuclear fears on top of chemical and biological threats, ad infinitum. With a sci-fi flare, he warns of runaway technology, human clones and an ability to insert memory chips into the brain.
A federal appeals court has ruled unanimously that Vice President Dick Cheney need not make public records and notes from private meetings with energy industry officials in 2001 designed to help formulate White House energy policy. The ruling is the latest round in a lawsuit filed four years ago by Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club hoping to shed some light on how much influence energy industry executives–some of whom are now convicted felons due to their unethical business dealings–had on the development of White House energy policy.
As a result of hunting and the draining of its wetlands habitat for development, the whooping crane was virtually extinct on American soil by the 1940s. But due to the efforts of a wide range of committed individuals and government agencies, the majestic bird’s population has soared–sort of.
How are coral reefs faring around the world?
I wanted to know more about the Gulf Stream, and so went to Answers.com, which informed me that this warm, slow-moving current was first described by Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in 1513. "The Gulf Stream originates in the Gulf of Mexico and, as the Florida Current, passes through the Straits of Florida and along the coast of the southeastern United States with a breadth of 50 miles.
