May 2, 2016 Sea creatures make brighter clouds to cool the Earth Green globs of little critters in the ocean are responsible for half of the cloud droplets that cover the Southern Ocean during the summer, a new study finds.
May 2, 2016 Taxing organic products could solve California water problem, experts say Environmental experts Terry L. Anderson, and Henry I. Miller, both fellows at Stanford University are touting a solution to California's ongoing water problems. In their proposal “How Taxing Organic Products Could Solve California’s Water Shortage,” published last week on National Review Online, Anderson and Miller state the need for a revenue–neutral tax on all organic products (which would diminish their demand), while outlining how organic agriculture is less efficient and more wasteful than conventional and genetically engineered agriculture.
May 2, 2016 Bagging a comet? The craziest ways to give Earth its water supply Earth is bathed in water, but will there be enough for everyone in the future? The question doesn't have an easy answer
May 2, 2016 Oregon's mysterious 'disappearing lake' explained During the rainy fall and winter, most Oregonians probably don't give much thought to Lost Lake, a shallow lake surrounded by pine trees that sits near a highway
May 2, 2016 Charity to bring clean water to Nepal earthquake victims Just days after a magnitude-7.8 quake devastated much of Nepal, a Christian nonprofit group is gearing up to provide a simple, but lifesaving, commodity — clean water.
May 2, 2016 Happy Earth Day! 5 ways to get kids to help the planet Earth is a constant marvel, especially for children who enjoy learning about its wonders
May 2, 2016 How to celebrate Earth Day 2015 with NASA Today (April 22) is the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, and NASA has a series of activities planned to celebrate the beauty of our home planet.
May 2, 2016 For Earth Day, Levi Strauss & Co. wants consumers to pledge to wash less Did you know that about 3,800 liters of water are used over the course of the lifetime of a pair of jeans? What about this statistic – consumer care, like washing, contributes 37 percent of the roughly 74 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted during a pair of jeans’ use. The figures come from a recent Levi Strauss & Co. study on the impact that jeans have on the environment, an update on a similar 2007 report from the company. The goal was to shed light on the fairly large-scale impact that wearing a pair of jeans – something most people just take for granted – can have.
May 2, 2016 Huge underwater canyon is home to amazing deep-sea creatures A two-week-long seafaring mission off the coast of western Australia has helped illuminate a deep and dark underwater abyss the size of the Grand Canyon
May 2, 2016 Weird 'water tongue' lets fish feed on land A fish that uses water as a sort of tongue to feed on land could shed light on how animals with backbones first invaded land, researchers say
