facing the fire

I'm not planning on running out to buy the newest version of Mac OS X, but the cnet review [ LINK ] makes it sound pretty nice. Apparent...

Also out of Science this week (see post below), some studies saying that climate change might adversely affect crops are being published. Th...

A story in the NYTimes by James Gorman [ LINK ] discusses to rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker in eastern Arkansas. Apparently this...

This morning I saw an article [ LINK to PolitInfo.com ] about replacements for CFCs being "greenhouse gases." Okay, let's ...

Okay, SSRD told me a while back to change the color of the links because they were too light. Finally today I did it. All the links should n...

I don't think I've blogged this site before, but Earthwatch Radio is an excellent resource for environmental news. It can be a litt...

In yet another good decision, the Canadians have struck a deal between the "auto industry" and the government. Apparently they...

I read this story in E-Commerce Times today [ LINK ] about Google introducing a new feature wherein a search for a location returns not only...

Apparently the big science/climate story today is that the "Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Synthesis Report" was released. A...

Hot Air and Global Warming , an opinion piece by Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe, contrasts the views of James Connaughton (dir of env q...

Hot Air and Global Warming , an opinion piece by Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe, contrasts the views of James Connaughton (dir of env q...

Tony Blair has been pandering to the US administration for years, but was recently called out by the House of Commons Environmental Audit C...

VOA News - Astronomers See Light of Distant Planets for First Time In very cool science news, astronomers can actually "see" a...

Soft Tissue Discovered in Bone of a Dinosaur "In bone blasted from Montana sandstone, fossil hunters for the first time have...

A quick little political post, to brighten our morning: USATODAY.com - John Ashcroft to teach class at Va. college "One month after...

So I saw an article in the NYTimes Science section about NASA diverting money away from confirmed projects to shuttle/space station/moon/mar...

Until now I've been fairly pleased with Apple as a company. Now they seem to be turning into Micro$oft of the late 90s. Catch up by read...

I just stumbled across ENN: Environmental News Network through ibiblio.org , and I just wanted to throw it out there. Just glancing at it ...

So there's some study, [link: New Scientist - Women more affected by binge drinking by Shaoni Bhattacharya] that suggests that binge dri...

We often like to think our country is founded on the idea that all people are created equal. This of course is actually just a nice line fro...