A group of environmental and social justice organizations have launched a coordinated campaign in protest of petroleum giant ExxonMobil’s efforts to cast doubts on the science of global warming and attempts to lobby for opening the still-pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.
In yet another example of how global warming is wreaking havoc on the Earth’s environment, a group of leading scientists from the UK’s Royal Society released a report last week detailing how industrial carbon dioxide emissions have led to the increased acidity of the world’s oceans and is in turn causing irreparable harm to marine ecosystems and the living creatures therein.
American opposition to strong action to curb carbon dioxide emissions has led to a rift between leaders of the world’s industrialized nations–the so-called "Group of Eight," or G8–who met last week in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Bush administration’s continued resistance to signing onto forceful measures to combat global warming looks to jeopardize one of UK prime minister Tony Blair’s major goals for his year-long presidency of the G8 group.
College probably hasn’t changed very much in the past few decades when it comes to student life. Semesters are measured by how many nights were spent at the library huddling over a large cup of coffee and a History of the Modern World book. You can’t call yourself an undergraduate student unless you’ve attempted to print out a last-minute essay only to discover your printer has run out of black ink. Yes, you do get marked down if you hand in an essay in pink ink. I know I’ve destroyed at least a small forest in how many copies I’ve made while conducting research.
June 3, 1994 was an ideal day for a home garden tour in Tulsa, Oklahoma–the weather was beautiful and the plants were in full bloom. That day, over 800 people had visited Evelyn Connor’s garden, and they had been impressed by her lush naturalistic landscape, which includes Mullien pinks and a mass of three-foot-high native purple cornflowers.
Inside the white-coated world of U.S. university, commercial and military laboratories, about 55,000 primates are used each year to study a range of phenomenon, from brain disorders and sexually transmitted diseases to nuclear radiation and the toxicity of household products.
Mike Hogan recalls after being shocked the day he discovered that Keep America Beautiful (KAB) isn’t an environmental group. Like countless baby boomers, Hogan grew up watching KAB’s infamous crying Indian TV avertisement. One of the most popular public service announcements of all time, it featured a Native American who, after paddling a canoe through a littered waterway, weeps at the sight of pollution surrounding him.
Imagine a microscopic marine predator which can spend years at a time without food, but which, when conditions are favorable, suddenly emerges from the sediment, changes shape and kills millions of fish after stunning them with poison so powerful it can cause immuno-suppression in humans. Find it hard to believe? Go tell it to Dr. JoAnn Burkholder.
A two-ton Chinese spy satellite the size of a small car is headed for a crash landing somewhere on Earth. Although most satellites quickly burn up when they reenter Eath’s atmosphere , this one is prepared for a fiery ride, and is deemed sufficiently armored to survive it.
After years of partisan bickering, the Senate last week passed a comprehensive energy bill, which provides incentives for boosting domestic production of oil and natural gas and extends billions of dollars in tax incentives for nuclear energy development and cleaner coal-fired power plants. Meanwhile, the legislation also promotes solar and wind power initiatives while calling for increased energy conservation.
