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Saltworks Technologies: low-cost desalination
UPDATEDTwo Canadians, Ben Sparrow and Joshua Zoshi, founders of Saltworks Technologies, appear to have developed a truly low-cost desalination technology. The pair have discovered a way to use the...
View ArticleAre mobile phone transmissions killing honey bees?
The scientific name for it is "colony collapse disorder." In recent years, bees have been disappearing. Nobody seems to know the exact cause. Some researchers in India may have found evidence that...
View ArticleNew Dutch auto tax targets distance driven
Holland seems poised to replace a 25% tax on new automobile purchases with a mileage tax. The aim is to reduce congestion, reports Wired (h/t Interpreter)The Dutch government wants to abolish...
View ArticleUS and China must cooperate on the environment
Fallows, who recently spent several years in China, blogs:Thirty years from now, the most important aspect of Barack Obama's interaction with China will be whether the two countries, together, can do...
View ArticleJapanese whaling ship sinks Sea Shepherd boat
ABC has a report on the collision in the Southern Ocean. The Japanese whaling security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 rammed and damaged the Ady Gil, a $2 million high-speed trimaran belonging to Paul Watson's...
View ArticleLast of Sumatra's Tigers?
A WWF camera trap video shows a whole family of rare Sumatran tigers.
View ArticleCarbon emissions impact climate and health
I had assumed this was blatantly obvious, but it appears not:Writing online Jan. 22 in the journal Environmentahal Research Letters, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Gregory Nemet, Tracey...
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Sierra Club's Avatar Sands ad
Wired:Cameron probably didn't have the Boreal forest in mind when he thought up the plot to Avatar. But it's still a smart move on the part of anti-Tar Sand activists to make such a splashy statement...
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Two of the world's biggest icebergs
One of the world's biggest icebergs recently collided with a giant glacier to form another massive iceberg.The above image was composed by the European Space Agency. ESA (h/t Antarcticana) explains:...
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Bluefin tuna: endangered and overfished
UPDATE: See this post.This week delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) consider a proposal on the table for a complete ban on international trade of the...
View ArticleWho will save the bluefin tuna?
If nations can't agree to ban blue fish tuna fishing this week, it may be the end of the line for that species. From an article about the documentary film End of the Line by Charles Clover in the Times...
View ArticleSpecies in the Red: Greenpeace list of fish species you should not eat
Greenpeace, to its credit, is finally moving to take the overfishing crisis seriously. It has publish a "red list" of endangered fish species that should no longer be consumed. Treehugger:Five...
View ArticleOutcome of UN vote on bluefin
A U.N. meeting about wildlife trade has rejected a proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna. (AP) More details here.
View ArticleBisphenol A in all the oceans?
According to a UN study, one square mile of ocean contains 46 thousand pieces of plastic. Now, according to a new report, all the oceans contain traces of BPA (Bisphenol A). Wired:BPA can cause...
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Bird sanctuary in Jordan
I took the photo. It shows an man and his son at a bird sanctuary in Jordan. Sadly, there were hardly any birds.
View ArticleObama's offshore drilling anouncement
Obama calculates that his recent give-away to the insurance industry in the guise of health-care reform has won the White House sufficient political capital to capture some additional campaign...
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UK Chagos Islands: world's largest marine park
BBC (hat-tip Tenpercent) reports:The UK government has designated an area around the Chagos Islands as the world’s largest marine reserve. The reserve would cover a 544,000 sq km area around the Indian...
View ArticleAmerica's meek environmental groups
Happy Earth Day! Some thoughts about the American environmental movement.
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ESA Satellite view of Loop Current
The fear is that winds could push the oil slick south until it joins the Loop Current, which would carry the oil towards Florida. If that were to happen, the oil could flow into the Gulf Stream and be...
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