Photo credit: Kuranosuke Oishi via Creative Commons In 2006, Americans spent roughly $15 billion on bottled water. That’s more than we spent on movie theater tickets and ipods. While $15 billion seems staggering, also consider the fact that we pitched roughly 38 billion plastic water bottles into our landfills. The ever-growing bottle water industry is [...]
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Photo credit:Matthew Hoelscher It seemed like a good idea at the time. Let’s make an artificial reef from old tires and let corals establish themselves, creating a new marine habitat. At the same time, we’ll free up space in our landfills. Ray McAllister, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, organized the project, with U.S. Army [...] Photo Credit: NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory On November 7, 2006, Steve Pothoven and his fellow fisheries biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spotted the latest invader of the North American Great Lakes. The invader is Hemimysis anomala, a half-inch long, bright orange shrimp native to the Black and Caspian Seas. Lately the U.S. Federal Government has been making a lot of noise about green fuel. It started with President Bush’s comment about “switch grass” in his State of the Union Address. He got a few chuckles out of that. While we’ve all heard of using corn to make ethanol, and the importance of trading our [...] photo: eugene When most of us think of the Galapagos Islands, we think of Mother Nature, herself. It is here, 600 miles from mainland Ecuador, where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. And today, the Galapagos Archipelago continues to support 5,000 different species of plants and animals. The Archipelago is 430 kilometers long and [...] |
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