Richard Alley: Earth’s Biggest Clima...

Maybe that title is a little misleading… This post is about a speech given by climate scientist Richard Alley.  There is no evidence that Richard Alley himself has any influence on climate, nor would I...

White roofs to fight global warming?

As part of our new “Journal Club” feature series, we’ll be highlighting a scientific journal article and explaining a major concept in Earth science.  This week we start with a recent...

The top 50 sustainability books

The prestigious University of Cambridge Programme (translation: ‘Program’) for Sustainability Leadership has released their list of the top 50 books on Sustainability, chosen by their alumni. This...

Richard Feynman, NASA, and the geniu...

The Obama administration recently announced that funding will be cut for NASA manned-space exploration projects, including a return trip to the moon in 2020.  Instead, more funding will be directed towards...

Save the world – pee in the sh...

I love that TV show Monk, about an obsessive San Francisco detective who gets all freaked out at the slightest breach of hygiene.  I wonder how he would feel about this new environmental movement? You see,...

New USGS model on U.S. contamination...

  A new numerical model by the US Geological Survey gives near real-time distributions of the hormone disrupting crop pesticide, atrazine, in drinking water throughout the United States. Atrazine has been...