Mon - February 20, 2006

Oceans to be more corrosive than when the dinosaurs died


Better quit skinny-dipping...

Increased carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly making the world's oceans more acidic and, if unabated, could cause a mass extinction of marine life similar to one that occurred 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs disappeared.

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Sat - September 17, 2005

Remember the environmental movement from the 60's & 70's? We weren't kidding, too bad you didn't listen....


Current computer models suggest that the Arctic will be entirely ice-free during summer by the year 2070 but some scientists now believe that even this dire prediction may be over-optimistic, said Professor Peter Wadhams, an Arctic ice specialist at Cambridge University.

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Wed - August 31, 2005

$5.87 a gallon. Today. See pic.


The Coast Guard (the only thing we've got left) was there in their HH-60 helicopters -while the hurricane was still blowing!

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Thu - July 14, 2005

Mixed Liquor = Clean Water & Electricity


Wastewater, with its high-content organic matter, also can produce methane and hydrogen fuels, however, that theoretically more readily usable energy can be produced when electricity is produced directly in a microbial fuel cell.

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Wed - April 7, 2004

Waterworld, Part 2


But Gregory and co-author Philippe Huybrechts, a glaciologist at the Free University in Brussels, Belgium, calculate that if the island warms by an annual average of 3 degrees Celsius, melting will exceed snowfall and the ice sheet will begin to disappear.

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Sat - March 20, 2004

Is it hot in here?


MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii (AP) -- Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in the past year, say scientists monitoring the sky from this 2-mile-high station atop a Hawaiian volcano.

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Tue - February 3, 2004

Got Smog?


Dimitrios Kotzias, who runs PICADA's test programme at the EU's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, says that the coating is effective because air turbulence is constantly carrying the gases over the surface, yet molecules stick to the surface long enough for the oxidation reaction to break them down.

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Sun - January 11, 2004

Breathing is bad for your brain


He told BBC News Online: "I think there could be an increased future risk for all of us, and also a higher risk for people exposed at present to nanoparticles at work, though it's impossible to say how much bigger their risk is.

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Wed - July 2, 2003

Drinkin' Guinness (nope, it's WATER!)


During tests in Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, residents were instructed to stir a 4-gram packet of the chemicals into a 10-liter jug of river or other water for 5 minutes, until dirt and other suspended materials settled out.

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Mon - May 26, 2003

EPA: Endangered.


ASHINGTON, May 26 — The computer system used by the Environmental Protection Agency to track and control water pollution is obsolete, full of faulty data and does not take into account thousands of significant pollution sources, according to a new government report.

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