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Can We Blame Philly's Extreme Weather on Global Warming?

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Climate Change

photo by http://www.jamescornette.com/misc.html It is unbelievable! The chance of it happening by chance is microscopically small! But there’s a simple, easy explanation it happening. We’re talking about the many all-time records of extreme weather we’ve seen in Philadelphia in less than three...

The high price of EPA regulations

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 24 October 2011 in General Environment

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faced scrutiny on Capitol Hill again this week over the high costs of its record number of environmental regulations. During a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee, the agency’s air chief denied consequences of the Clean Ai...

New Solar Farms at Edwards Air Force Base

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 17 October 2011 in Solar

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- With today's fiscal climate, Edwards Air Force Base is always looking for good ways to save money. One area where Edwards is looking to save is energy costs. After three years of planning and coordination with Southern California Edison, the California Pub...

Geek Farmers Gamble on Global Warming

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 in Climate Change

An alliance of data fanatics, geek farmers and high-priests of advanced computing are attempting to crack the code on the business of bad weather. Originally established by a group of Google veterans as WeatherBill, the effort is now known the Climate Corporation and is growing by leaps and bo...

Nitrate Pollution in Pacific Ocean

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Rising nitrate levels in the northwest Pacific Ocean could alter the makeup of marine plants and influence marine ecology, U.S. and Korean researchers say. Atmospheric and riverine pollution off the coasts of Korea and Japan that is changing the ratio of nitrate to phosphorus has researchers sa...

Ocean Acidification Threatens World's Oceans

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide is driving fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry and ecosystems of the world's oceans, international marine scientists have warned. "Ocean conditions are already more extreme than those experienced by marine organisms and ec...

Building Machince to Clean Up Oil Spills

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 12 September 2011 in Oil Spill

When the Exxon Valdez was wrecked off the coast of Alaska in 1989, cleanup crews were able to recover only about 14 percent of the spilled oil. Twenty-one years later, when the Deepwater Horizon disaster spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico, recovery efforts had improved shockingly little: Responders...

Shark Killing in the Galapagos National Park

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 03 September 2011 in Earth Violators

On July 25th, Sea Shepherd reported the capture of a fishing vessel in what is the biggest case of shark killing in the history of the Galapagos National Park. We saw this as our opportunity to put almost two years of hard work in our legal project into practice and were preparing ourselve...

Why the Valley Should Care About Sharks

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

The San Fernando Valley is home to Universal Studios, one of the most famous movie studios in the world. As a resident of Studio City, it is something I mention with pride to people I meet who are not from California. "Yes! I live right next to where all of your favorite movies were made!"...

Brazil Forest Law changes threaten to send climate achievements up in smoke

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 in Forestry

Brazil: Proposed changes to Brazil's forest laws that will cut back protection and offer wide ranging amnesties for illegal deforestation threaten to undo the country's impressive performances in cutting back emissions and protecting biodiversity. "As it stands now, the forest law i...

Communities Designed For Cars Aren’t Just Unsustainable, They’re Deadly

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 25 August 2011 in Uncategorized

You might have heard about the story of Raquel Nelson — nearly a year ago, her 4 year-old son was killed by a drunk driver as they crossed the street with the rest of their family. Nelson and her daughter were injured, too. The drunk driver ended up serving six months of prison, and was released, de...

Planet Without Apes

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Viewers of this summer’s Hollywood blockbuster “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” may be surprised to learn that before our earliest ancestors arrived on the scene roughly seven million years ago, apes really did rule the planet. As many as 40 kinds roamed Eurasia and Africa between 10 and 25 million ...

Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in U.S. history

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Oil Spill

One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear – microbes matter! Despite vast differences in the impacted marine ecosystems and the circumst...

Helping Animals Relocate

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 11 August 2011 in Animals

Humans hate change, and they hate moving to suit someone else’s agenda—that’s why politicians avoid projects that require eminent domain. Animals and plants don’t deal particularly well with change, either. They’ve adapted to live in a certain types of places, after all. But the massive amount of ca...

New research reveals soil microbes accelerate global warming

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 18 July 2011 in Climate Change

More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes soil to release the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, new research published in this week's edition of Nature reveals. "This feedback to our changing atmosphere means that nature is not as efficient in slowing global warming as we previou...

BP Oil Still Washing Ashore One Year After Spill

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 15 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Crude oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf of Mexico coast a year after BP Plc (BP/) stopped the flow from its damaged Macondo well, which caused the worst U.S. offshore spill, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. About 491 miles (790 kilometers) of coastline in Louisian...

Oil Spilled Into Montana's Yellowstone River

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 in Earth Violators

LAUREL, Mont. — Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the ...

IKEA Flips the Switch on a 65,000 Square Foot Solar Array in Sacramento

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 01 July 2011 in Solar

Furniture giant, IKEA, just switched on a 573-kW solar power system, which covers 65,000 square feet of space at their Sacramento, California store. The array is made up of approximately 2,548 panels and will help to cut 630 tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere. The solar array i...

Poachers Kill Mountain Gorilla in Bwindi Park, Uganda

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 23 June 2011 in Animals

Poachers have killed a mountain gorilla at Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. The area conservation manager, Mr Pontius Ezuma, said the 12-year-old black-back gorilla died last week of injuries it sustained after it was speared on the chest by unknown poachers at Biyumba in Kanyonza Sub-coun...

The Second Battle of Blair Mountain

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 08 June 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The Second Battle of Blair MountainPosted: 08 Jun 2011 08:35 AM PDTGuest post from Chuck Belmont Keeney, Ph.D. the descendant of famed UMWA organized Frank Keeney. The March on Blair Mountain is currently happening in Southern WV. For more information and to support the march visit www.m...