March 27, 2010 / global warming

More facts you wanted to know about global warming

More facts you wanted to know about 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

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March 25, 2010 / energy

Alternative energy from the ocean

Alternative energy from the ocean

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

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March 23, 2010 / Earth

Chemical pollution

Chemical pollution

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

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March 22, 2010 / energy

Everything you wanted to know about biomass

Everything you wanted to know about biomass

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

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March 21, 2010 / energy

Fossil fuels - from the past to present

Fossil fuels – from the past to present

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

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March 21, 2010 / energy

Harnessing wind through human history

Harnessing wind through human history

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

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March 20, 2010 / Earth

Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycles

Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycles

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

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March 19, 2010 / Earth, disasters

Biodiversity on Earth

Biodiversity on Earth

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

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March 17, 2010 / Earth

Can we reduce water consumption?

Can we reduce water consumption?

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

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March 15, 2010 / Earth, global warming

Ozone - Global problem or not?

Ozone – Global problem or not?

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

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March 10, 2010 / Earth, global warming

What about acid oceans?

What about acid oceans?

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

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March 9, 2010 / Earth, global warming

Climate changes in forthcoming years

Climate changes in forthcoming years

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

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