August 13, 2010 / Earth
Argentina's remote lake in northwestern territories may have clues on how life got started on Earth and how life could survive on Mars or other planets, not just in our solar system. Researchers have
August 10, 2010 / Earth
Brittish explorer named Ed Stafford finished his 6500km long journey along the Amazon River in little more than two years. Ed started his journey at Camana, Peru on April 2, 2008 and ended it yesterda
July 18, 2010 / Earth
Last report by the U.N. Environmental Program or UNEP showed that about a one fifth of the world’s mangroves have been lost since 1980. It is more than 36 square kilometers of forests that are strad
May 18, 2010 / Earth
Lights in the sky have fascinated us for thousands of years. The lights in the far north and south of our planet are some of the more famous ones. What was in that soup? Travel to Antarctica or th
April 24, 2010 / Earth
Forget expensive machinery, the best way to purify water could be hiding in a cactus. It turns out that an extract from the prickly pear cactus is effective at removing sediment and bacteria from dirt
March 23, 2010 / Earth
There are approaching 100,000 different human made chemical compounds in use around the world today, in millions of different products. Additional compounds are created as by-products of manufac
March 20, 2010 / Earth
Nitrogen is an essential component of all living things, yet only a small amount of the planet's stock of nitrogen is in a form that living things can absorb. This is "fixed" out of the air by bacteri
March 19, 2010 / Earth, disasters
Individual species may not matter much on their own, but collectively they form ecosystems that provide a range of vital "ecosystem services", such as recycling waste, cleaning water, absorbing carbon
March 17, 2010 / Earth
Humans now control most of the world's rivers, damming and diverting many of them to death. Thanks to us, a quarter of the world's river systems no longer reach the ocean for at least part of the year
March 15, 2010 / Earth, global warming
The ozone hole that formed in the stratosphere over Antarctica in the 1970s was a classic example of an environmental tipping point. Ozone-destroying chemicals built up in the frigid stratosphere unti
March 10, 2010 / Earth, global warming
This is a relatively new issue, rarely discussed until 10 years ago. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more is absorbed by the oceans, creating carbonic acid. Since the industrial revolution
March 9, 2010 / Earth, global warming
Ever since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (or one word IPCC) 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error that the Himalayan glaciers wil
