March 27, 2010 / global warming
As global warming continues to receive more exposure on the internet, the television, and the radio, you may start to pay more attention. If global warming is an issue that you are concerned about o
March 25, 2010 / energy
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) was conceived of by the French engineer Jacques D'Arsonval in 1881. However, at the time of this writing the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii is home to the o
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 22, 2010 / energy
Biomass is organic material made from plants and animals. Biomass contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb the sun’s energy in a process called photosynthesis. The chemical energy in plant
March 21, 2010 / energy
It has been documented that the Chinese were using coal as early as 1000 BC to bake porcelain. The ancient Greeks also wrote about it in their history. In the Western countries, many of the forests ha
March 21, 2010 / energy
Wind is one very usable energy resource that can be traced back thousands of years. the first mechanical device that was built to use the wind as a source of power was a sailboat. Larger ships and sai
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
