Tag: ecology
member name: Ethan G.
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April 30, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
I’ve long thought that the tendency to divide all political issues into “conservative” and “liberal,” and to then identify them with either the Republican or Democratic Party . . .
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July 29, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
Scorching heat, swarming insects, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, drought, fever. These could be coming soon to a neighborhood near you
Scientists warn that extreme weather events are likely to . . .
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March 31, 2007 06:32 PM EDT --
The purpose of an editorial page is to debate the great issues of the day. And surely one of the greatest issues of the 21st century is, and will increasingly be, global climate change. In . . .
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February 14, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
Declaring the need for energy independence, President Bush has proposed a budget with funding for an array of programs [Advanced Energy Initiative] some of which have great promise. Yet from an environmental . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
A sizzling fajita, piled with grilled steak, chicken, and shrimp, sends a lustful burst of yearning through me, just before I gobble it down. True, I feel a bit sick if I think about the bloody . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
The environment doesn’t recognize international boundaries. Vast dust storms from China blow over neighboring countries and reach as far as the United States. Israel and neighboring . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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April 07, 2008 02:58 PM EDT --
My wife and I recently had the privilege of viewing our four legged hopping friends in all of their diversity at the exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, at the National Geographic Museum (in downtown . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
The fight against cataclysmic global climate change and for energy independence has many fronts. Innovative technologies are being developed by businesses large and small. One such company . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:40 PM EDT --
All of the bad news and horror stories about the environment and climate change can make one feel hopeless. What is one person to do? It helps to realize that we are all in this together, . . .
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July 02, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
A tree came down on our block across the street. It provided quite a spectacle to all the neighborhood, who gathered around to watch its slow death.
A small group of Hispanic workers . . .
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August 26, 2007 10:58 PM EDT --
At a used bookstore, a vast and diverse storehouse of wisdom old and new, I recently encountered The Diversity of Life, by the great biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson, published in 1992. Reading . . .
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January 14, 2008 08:57 PM EST --
I've had chronic rhinitis--that is, nasal congestion--for as long as I can remember. Doctors have recommended a succession of drugs, including pills and inhalers, to treat the symptoms. A month or . . .
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February 23, 2008 11:38 AM EST --
You don't have to embark on a journey into the wilderness to see nature. It's all around, and even creatures often overlooked are quite marvelous, each in its own way.
Here are some . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
**I posted this three weeks ago but didn't post it to my "groups" because I didn't realize that the way to do so had changed. So I am re-posting.
With oil prices reaching . . .
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May 18, 2008 10:08 PM EDT --
With oil prices hitting another record, this time $128 a barrel, a voracious energy appetite worldwide, and a faltering economy, the demand is likely to grow to take any steps necessary to get extra energy, . . .
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September 01, 2008 09:58 PM EDT --
Gustav: A Warning of Worse to Come?
I was hoping for a respite from the hurly-burly of environmental politics, but Gustav has struck and I had better make at least some brief comments.
Although . . .
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