by Admin | Jan 22, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
There have been a number of studies recently that have found plastic in the digestive tracts of a wide array of marine animals. Further, a huge swirling mass of plastics, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is floating in the north Pacific. Plastics in the ocean...
by Admin | Jan 15, 2016 | Articles
For some years now, scientists have been making arguments for the Anthropocene epoch: a geological time period defined by human impact on the planet, and which began in the mid-20th Century. Now, geologists in the Anthropocene Working Group, an international...
by Admin | Jan 11, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
The United States is one of the world’s largest producers of greenhouse gasses, and following the Paris Climate Conference held in December of last year, we’re trying to improve that, partly through more rigorous monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately,...
by Admin | Jan 7, 2016 | Articles, Conservation
Big changes are coming for global chemical giants DuPont and Dow Chemical as they recently announced a $130 billion merger deal, creating DowDuPont. DowDupont won’t be around for long, though, as it will break into three separate public companies in less than two...
by Admin | Jan 4, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
Unfortunately, we don’t know as much about cancer as we would like to. But luckily, one study is shedding some light on one interesting aspect of how cancer occurs in many people. According to a new study from the journal Nature, cancer is overwhelmingly a result of...
by Admin | Dec 11, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
Forests help to offset carbon emissions by trapping carbon within trees, and when scientists and policy makers discuss emissions goals, they take this fact into consideration, hedging on forests to help offset what we produce. Unfortunately, according to a new study...
