Written by www.investors.com
Environment: It has become an article of faith in the U.S. that recycling is a good thing. But evidence is piling up that recycling is a waste of time and money, and a bit of a fraud.
Written by Maddie Stone
Antarctica is being pulled apart by an ancient rift system deep in Earth’s continental crust.
Written by CO2 is Life
(left) A healthy ocean snail has a transparent shell with smoothly contoured ridges. (right) A shell exposed to more acidic, corrosive waters is cloudy, ragged, and pockmarked with ‘kinks’ and weak spots. Photos courtesy Nina Bednarsek, NOAA PMEL.
Written by Jason Hopkins
Outright bans on plastics have an overall negative effect on the environment, and recycling initiatives make for better solutions, according to an Independent Institute report.
Written by cfact
The news media should be cautious about linking hurricane activity to global warming, according to National Hurricane Center Science and Operations Officer Chris Landsea.
Written by Pierre Gosselin
At the Wall Street Journal, Steven F. Hayward penned a great summary of the current state of the climate movement, telling us the CO2 climate change issue is quickly running out of oxygen.
Written by Herb Rose
The debate on the nature of light in the early twentieth century, whether light was a particle or a wave, led to Einstein’s solution with the creation of the photon where waves could become particle like, having no mass but containing energy.
Written by Dr. Jillian Swift Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Rats were carried on ships as humans settled the remote islands of the Pacific – analysis of the rats’ remains reveals changes humans made to the island ecosystems.
Written by Christopher Davidson
Many TNOs have wide, circular orbits that bring them nowhere near any of the solar system’s gas giants, leading scientists to question how the former initially got to their current positions without having interacted with a much larger object.
Written by Karen Graham
Written by Thomas Claburn
While the spaceship name Heart of Gold was taken by the late, great Douglas Adams, NASA has come up with something similar for its forthcoming space telescope.
Written by Tyler Durden
Climate change is over. Blasphemy!! No, I’m not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue.
Written by Tyler Durden
Earthquakes in Britain are unusual to say the least, and in London even more so. In fact, an earthquake has not struck the capital since the 1700s.
Written by Viv Forbes
Famine has haunted humans for most of their history. In the days of the Pharaohs, whenever the Nile River failed to flood, Egypt starved. Joseph was called in and he organised stockpiling of grain for famine relief.
Written by Alan Siddons
You know what explanatory diagrams do. They omit several details in order to convey the main idea (see example above).
Written by Richard Galustian
In this month’s prestigious British Medical Journal, The Lancet, has given considerable coverage in its June issue to the fact of the dangerous upsurge for both young and old of the variety of Diabetes which is becoming one of the largest global health crises of the 21st century.