New species of frogs in Panama are being lost nearly as fast as they are being found to a deadly fungal disease that is sweeping through the region.In an effort to document the diversity of frogs in Central America before the disease sweeps through the entire region, scientists are discovering new species, some of...
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May 3, 2010 | Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter. The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed...
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These 7 catastrophic environmental disasters have had a profound effect upon the earth and local residents that continues today, as many as 50 years later. via 7 Biggest Environmental Disasters — Where Are They Now? | | AlterNet.
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From The New York Times By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: April 23, 2009 For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming. “The...
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From Discover… 40 Years After the Cuyahoga Burned, Clevelanders Fish in It. Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught on fire 40 years ago June 22 when oily garbage floating in it was ignited, probably by sparks from a passing train. In turn, the fire sparked the creation of environmental agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency,...
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Earth Day: 10 Big, Really Hard Things We Can Do to Save the Planet
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Today is Earth Day and here is a classic video by Carl Sagan to help put things back in perspective…
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Here’s an excellent and thought provoking essay from Environment360: Consumption Dwarfs Population As Main Environmental Threat
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More than two trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. More than half of the loss of landlocked ice in the past five years has occurred in Greenland, based...
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has revised its World Energy Outlook report, and it’s not pretty. They admitted to having finally done some research, and as a result, have moved their peak-oil date a lot. 2020, that’s in 11 years my friends. At Last, A Date by George Monbiot
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