by Admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Environmental hazards, Green Energy
Wind turbines don’t produce greenhouse gases like burning fossil fuels, but they aren’t perfect. They are, unfortunately, responsible for hundreds of thousands of bird and bat deaths. The birds and bats are killed either by the blades themselves or by the pressure...
by Admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Climate Change, Information
Climate change is going to have a very strong impact on the world, and especially on the oceans. Rising temperatures and acidification, the latter caused by the ocean sequestering more carbon dioxide than normal, is already having a negative impact on corals and other...
by Admin | Oct 12, 2016 | Climate Change, Information
Methane is a greenhouse gas that, though it doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide, actually traps heat more effectively. This means that it contributes more to global warming but for a shorter time. The amount of CO2, and the time it stays in the...
by Admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Climate Change, Information
New research indicates that ironically, as we stabilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and begin to reduce it, the carbon land sink—the CO2 stored in soil and plants—will decline. This comes from research by scientists in Germany and the United Kingdom, who have...
by Admin | Oct 7, 2016 | Conservation, Information
New Zealand is far enough south in the southern hemisphere that some of its islands are in subantarctic territory. These cold and windy islands get little light, particularly in the southern winter (which corresponds to the northern hemisphere’s summer), and what...
