Lead, an elemental problem
A new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control indicates that lead can be harmful to children even in low concentrations.
A new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control indicates that lead can be harmful to children even in low concentrations.
Of course, there's no substitute for human arrogance an dignorance. We insist on living along earthquake faults from San Francisco to Tokyo.
On site observers find Arctic ice thinner, softer than satellite data indicated.
We're not talking about pop singers or scrawny fashion models. We're talking Mother Earth.
An update to the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report warns that even smaller temperature increases could mean even larger real life changes than earlier IPCC projections. This study was authored by a panel of scientists whoare members of the IPCC.
Courtesy: NASARed dots are locations of ice monitoring stations.Nature has a broad look at what we know and we might know about Greenland and its shrinking ice.
Natural features that have existed for millenia are disappearing. There have warming and cooling trends in the past, but today technology allows us to "see" what's happening.
Assuming Americans can sometime in the future begin to buy new appliances, the next gen of toaster or blender may be more energy efficient. President Obama has directed the Energy Depatment to issue new efficiency guidelines by August of this year.
Lots of petroleum-derived materials in today's automobile. Gone is the chrome plating and wooden dashboards of yore.
Today President-elect Obama was specific in his call for more spending on energy conservation and on production of alternative, not-fossil-fuel-based, energy. Some items on the Obama wish list for his hoped-for stimulus plan: double alternative energy production in three years, construct a smarter electric grid to reduce waste, spending on insulation and other conservation moves.