‘You Can’t Take Away My Hope’: Thirty Years Of Climate Scientists Helplessly Describing Our Dangerously Changing World
In a new video by Peter Sinclair, prominent climate scientist Michael MacCracken discusses how the last thirty years have confirmed the predictions he and others made in 1982 and earlier. The scientific understanding of how burning ( Read more... )

Small farms may be better for food security and biodiversity
We often assume the only way to feed the world's rapidly growing human population is with large-scale industrial agriculture. Many would argue that genetically altering food crops is also necessary to produce large enough quantities on smaller areas to feed the world's people.

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Methane bubble "doomsday" story debunked
For several days, bloggers and journalists have been passing around a news story about how the BP oil disaster will unleash a "giant methane bubble" and initiate a mass extinction. Yes, it's a myth. And we've busted it.

In this article, called "Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world- ( Read more... )

Wayne State medical invention may help clean up Gulf oil leak
By Vince Lamb, Detroit Science News Examiner

A process originally designed to increase oxygen levels in the blood of heart attack patients without creating bubbles may be used to break down the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico.

The technology, called DynamOx, short for Dynamic Oxygen, ( Read more... )