ENVIRONMENT ARTICLES
Tropical Storm Cristobal
Mark Boardman
Tropical cyclone Cristobal circulated with its mid point just offshore on the east coast of the US, but it has not become any better organized since the afternoon of Saturday, in fact winds on the North Carolina and South Carolina coastline were quite light. Cristobal brushed the coast on Sunday with...
The World Takes Another Look at Biofuels
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Across the world, food shortages have taken on crisis proportions. In the U.S. and Europe this has taken the relatively mild form of sharply increased prices, but in other parts of the world riots are breaking out and governments are nearly being toppled, because people are starving. The causes...
The Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program
Lee Keadle
Loggerhead sea turtles come ashore Folly Beach, SC to lay their eggs between May and October. Despite popular belief, the females only nest every two or three years, and during their nesting season they can lay anywhere from two to five separate batches of eggs. Each of these batches, or nests, usually...
Can Offshore Drilling Lower the Price of Oil?
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Several factors are contributing to the recent surge in the price of oil to more than double what it was a few years ago. One of these factors is the increased demand from heavily populated countries like China and India where more and more people are able to afford motor vehicles, along with the burgeoning...
Drugs in our Drinking Water: Prescription for Trouble
Olivia Romero Romero
You and I have the same goals. We both want good health and long and happy lives for ourselves and our families. But achieving these goals is being threatened by a new source of environmental pollution: drugs in our drinking water. Environmental engineers and medical experts have worked hard,...
Volkswagen's Biofriendly 1-Liter Car hits the Road
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When Volkswagen first announced its One-Liter Car in 2002, it was an instant sensation. The term "One-Liter" refers not to the size of the engine, but to the fact that it takes only one liter of fuel to drive 100 kilometers in this biofriendly vehicle. That translates to an astounding 235 U.S. miles...
Sarah Palin the Antigore
Karen Fish
Sarah Palin is the Antigore, the biggest threat to global warming and climate change, because she states positively that human beings are not the cause of global warming. Democrats are panicking over what will happen on foreign policy if the 72 year old twice cancer stricken John McCain dies and leaves...
Hurricanes: Are They Getting Worse?
Ellen Bell
Since the year 2000, it seems that tropical storms and hurricanes are occurring more frequently, and with more intensity. Are hurricane seasons getting progressively worse? There are many differing opinions within the scientific community. To form your own opinion, it's helpful to review the number and...
Perfect Conditions Make for Perfect Storms – How Hurricanes Form
Mr. Mark Decherd
Perfect Conditions Make for Perfect Storms – How Hurricanes FormIf you’ve ever wondered why hurricanes arrive like clockwork during “hurricane season,” it’s because conditions are just right. With the warm waters of late summer, low pressure systems, and other conditions in place, hurricanes are...
Weather And Business - A Great Day For Selling
Mark Boardman
Okay, so it's hot and you want an ice-cream. That seems obvious, but what is less obvious is the breakdown of different ice-cream types sold in differing weather. For instance in moderate warmth a soft ice-cream in a cone is sold more. However if it starts to get really hot people tend to look for something...
Global Warming - Survive And Thrive
Mark Boardman
A region's climate may alter over time becoming hotter, cooler, drier or wetter. Natural selection will determine the organisms with characteristics appropriate to the new climate. Over hundreds and thousands of generations constant minute changes will eventually lead to a new species that can survive...
Encouraging New Biofriendly Developments in Ethanol Production
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While the potential benefits of ethanol are hotly disputed, there have been some recent developments that can make it more attractive and biofriendly as a fuel. Researchers at Iowa State University have developed a new technology to produce ethanol from corn, involving a fungus. They estimate that, using...
The Lure of Manure: Energy from Farm Waste
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It is well known that animals, and farm animals in particular, produce greenhouse gases. However, unless everyone becomes a strict vegetarian, livestock is not likely to go away any time soon. Knowing that, some enterprising people have turned a liability into a biofriendly asset by using farm waste as...
New Development Paves the Way to a Future of Cleaner
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With all the attention on the global warming effects of carbon dioxide it is easy to overlook the harmful effects of other pollutants. Nitrous oxides (NOx) emitted by automobile engines pose an environmental hazard in a number of ways. They contribute to global warming and smog, as well as cause breathing...
USA’s First Fossil Fuel Free Community Housing Tract in Colorado
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For the first time in the United States a community is going to be created that will be totally independent of the power grid. Under the name Geos, Arvada Colorado will soon have 250 homes on 25 acres that will be energy independent. The homes will range from 850 to over 3500 square feet.The homes...