
Particular loggerhead turtles populations are listed as threatened by the United States. The U.S. is home to some of the most important nesting sites for the species in the world. In recent years, the populations of loggerheads have seen even greater declines.
Such declines caused numerous conservation organizations, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose listing seven of the turtles populations as endangered ...
Just a few articles back, Marina talked about plastics and some of its perennial issues with recycling. A new breakthrough promises to end all those ecological headaches. If new research is to be believed, boffins at IBM may have developed a process that does away with the petroleum based process for plastics. Instead, the new technology uses plants as the mother source.
Biofuels are a hot topic when discussing alternative fuel methods. Many nations have biofuels readily available for use in vehicles. Many airlines have also taken to using, or at least experimenting with, biofuels. Many argue, however, that the use of biofuels causes valuable farm land to be used for fuel crops instead of food.
Not only does using a food crop for fuel potentially limit the amount of land available for consumer food crops, it also has been criticized as detrimental to the ...

The traditional way of determining a country’s greenhouse gas emissions involves taking into account all of their industries, car pollutants and various other means of generating emissions. When determined in this manner, China is the top emissions producer in the world, having surpassed the United States some years ago. However, a new study is pointing to imports being a large contributor to a country’s emissions, emissions that are not counted towards the country that is importing.
Researchers ...
They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. This adage especially held true for wine growers. The necessity was the growing concern and the battle against chronic water shortages. Water, and in sufficiently large quantities, is the life blood for vineyards. Though the entire world is engrossed in different stages of water crisis, it is the wine industry that has seen something resembling a breakthrough.
Making buildings more environmentally friendly is a growing business sector, especially since many projects reduce costs as well. It is estimated that retrofitting projects to make buildings greener will triple in the next few years and by 2014 will be a $15.1 billion business. A potential popular component for urban buildings may be pyramid-covered windows.
The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) has created an “integrated concentrating dynamic solar façade,” ...