
Paved surfaces are so common that few of us think about them. Traditional paving techniques create "impervious" surfaces that prevent water from soaking directly into the ground. Erosion, flash floods and pollution are the result. What if there was a material that was as durable as traditional paving techniques that would capture rainwater and allow it to percolate through to the soil below?...
The Bush Administration's report on global warming contains some crucial but awkward truths that neither George W. Bush nor his environmentalist critics want to confront. The Administration has sought to bury the report, and tried to misrepresent its most ominous conclusion....
This article talks about an environmental friendly way of cleaning your home....
Increased warming is already threatening to decimate the world's coral reefs, and we're already seeing the melting of the tundra in Alaska; it is therefore not too difficult to reach the conclusion that "too warm," isn't awfully far from where we already are....
Will polar bears make the leap into the next century? Recent studies project that if Arctic sea ice continues to disappear, so will the polar bear in much of its current range....
Global climate change is having a direct impact on the Earth's sea level and a group of scientists led by two geophysicists is providing the sea level 'fingerprints' of polar ice sheet melting to prove it....
In some cases, a writer's choice of putting environmentalists in the bad-guy role may indeed reflect the writer's true feeling that eco-fascists are trying to keep decent folk from enjoying the good life. In other cases, it is no doubt just a convenience for their plot....
Accelerated global warming could lead to a runaway methane global warming effect due to the release of methane currently trapped in unstable methane hydrate deposits in the arctic....
Global temperature in 2003 was the hottest in the historical record, and the temperature increase over the 20th century is likely to be the highest of the past millennium. The ten warmest years on record have occurred since 1987, seven of them since 1994.
This article highlights early and emerging warning signs of global warming for each of the world's regions....
This is a document illustrating the environmental
folly of developing a biofuel based on Ethanol and
the ensuing cost to the human race...