Wow, 100 blog posts in 100 days … this has been big fun! I started this intense blogging effort in late January, when the economic slow-down made an acute showing in media outlets. I wasn’t getting paid assignments for a while, and I found myself without a regular outlet for what I love to do [...]
Carbon dioxide, of course, isn’t the only gas we emit into the atmosphere. Methane, a highly effective greenhouse gas, belches from landfills. And about five percent of our gas emissions comprise mercury.
We get it back: About 90 percent of human methylmercury exposure comes from ocean fish and shellfish — about 40 percent of that from [...]
We know we have the technology to inject carbon dioxide into the ground. Oil and gas companies have been doing it for years, as a way to push the goods to the surface.
But can we make it stay there, as a way to keep it out of the atmosphere?That’s the multi-million-dollar question.
Carbon sequestration research got [...]
If you’re a person who loves the American West, you’ve probably had the impulse to just go get lost in it.
I mean, for a long time.
As in: forget the job, and any notions of a home or marriage … just walk, across deserts and through dusty Indian towns, down into canyons, to the tops of [...]
A major research collaboration unmasked Mercury today, revealing more than people have ever known about the closest planet to the Sun.
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft flew by Mercury last fall, and researchers have been mining its data and images to fill in maps for nearly half the planet that were previously blank.
The [...]
