Water: H2O=Life
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a fabulous new exhibition. Water: H2O=Life Read Edward Rothstein in …
Category Archives: Environment
Sacramento Delta: Sick Unto Death
The Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers flow west out of the Sierra Nevada forming the Delta, the labyrinthine skein …
Earthquake
Anyone feel it? Odd low rumbling in Corte Madera just after eight o’clock… Map
Greenland Cabbage
Hovering around this feel-good story about growing vegetables for the first time in hundreds of years in Greenland is a …
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Update Below “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that’s twice the size …
Average Daily Temperature
No Global Warming? Take a look.
CO2 Rise is Faster
“Carbon dioxide emissions were 35 percent higher in 2006 than in 1990, a much faster growth rate than anticipated, researchers …
Fires Hit California
Update below. We’ve been keeping you abreast of the evil twins of drought and fire this late summer. Idaho and …
Green Business
“Venture capital firms poured nearly $900 million – a record – into U.S. startups developing clean and green energy systems …
Great Lakes Shrinking
We’ve posted before in these pages news about the Great Lakes’ own drought. Of course it isn’t the same as …
Solar Decathlon Winners
The very interesting Solar Decathlon — ten requirements each contestant had to satisfy — announced the winners today. Overall First …
Fire Watch
Well, 2007 has finally squeezed past 2005 as the second most destructive wild-fire year in the U.S. for the decade …