Science, and the scientific method, does not use “values” — unless they are mathematical values. However where, when and why science is applied to solve environmental problems does come down to values: Earth Ethics.
By Staff International Business Times September 10, 2011 The hummingbird, one of the smallest birds famous for its mid-air hovering, has its name derived from a hum it produces during the male hummingbird’s courtship ritual. The exact source of its high-pitched fluttering sound has been identified for the first time, detailed in a paper published […]
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By Wendy Zukerman www.newscientist.com 19 September 2011 Rare plants are springing up in an Australian park ravaged by bushfires – plants that had never been recorded there before the fire. The astonishing revival is providing new insights into the way ecosystems recover from fire damage. Over 90 per cent of Kinglake National Park in Victoria
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By Juliet Eilperin September 7, 2011 The Washington Post Industrial fishing in the deep sea should be banned because it has depleted fish stocks that take longer to recover than other species, according to a paper by an international team of marine scientists.[snip] Certain deep-sea species have gained widespread popularity — including orange roughy and
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By Cristen Conger news.discovery.com Sep 2, 2011 Actress Darryl Hannah and NASA scientist James Hansen are just two of the more than 800 environmental protesters that have been arrested in front of the White House this week. The crowd has been demonstrating against the proposed Keystone Pipeline XL project, which involves building a 1,700-mile (2,735-kilometer)
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By Staff DAILY MAIL (UK) September 3, 2011 These amazing images show a landscape dominated by a huge gathering of snow geese, as 1.3million of them descend on a single wildlife park. There are so many geese they appear to block out the sun and cover the ground completely. And photographer Mike Hollingshead said the
By Patrick Barkham and Camila Ruz The Guardian (UK) 18 August 2011 Return of otter shows English rivers are healthiest for 20 years, says Environment Agency It has been a long and perilous journey, but otters have finally managed to swim back from the brink of extinction and into every county in England. Two otters
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By Staff environmentalleader.com August 25, 2011 Construction activities have begun at an Archer Daniels Midland Company ethanol plant that will be able to capture and store 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.[snip] Because all of the captured CO2 is produced from biologic fermentation, a significant feature of the project is its “negative carbon
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By BETTINA WASSENER New York Times August 14, 2011 HONG KONG — Most people are familiar with the concept of a carbon footprint. Many may also know there is such a thing as a water footprint. But whoever heard of a plastic footprint? Well, soon, more and more people will have. Starting in early October,
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By Nick DiUlio princeton.edu August 25, 2011 Several Princeton undergraduates spent this summer immersed in local environmental issues, gaining insights into both the area’s ecosystem and their own futures, by interning with four organizations focused on sustainability. The local sustainability internships are part of the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) internship program, which enables more than
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On March 28, 2011, NASA’s Swift detected intense X-ray flares thought to be caused by a black hole devouring a star. In one model, illustrated here, a sun-like star on an eccentric orbit plunges too close to its galaxy’s central black hole. About half of the star’s mass feeds an accretion disk around the black
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Climate scientist Jason Box says oil sands are a moral issue that he feels compelled to address at Keystone XL pipeline protests By Elizabeth McGowan guardian.co.uk August 2011 His climatology career at Ohio State University is advancing swimmingly. He’s never had a brush with the law. And his wife is eight months pregnant with their
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Jeff McMahon Forbes 8/09/2011 Millions of Americans have been ingesting them for years—perchlorate, hexavalent chromium, volatile organic compounds—not because they’re safe, but because they are among 6,000 toxins the EPA has not gotten around to regulating in municipal drinking water systems. But after a change in administrations and a scathing review by the General Accounting
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