The Blog Archive

  • Pollinators and Roadsides

    Submitted by sarah on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 11:30am

    With more than 10 million acres of land in roadsides in the United States alone, transportation rights-of-way are a significant, yet often overlooked, resource for pollinator conservation. In landscapes denuded of natural areas by large scale agriculture or urbanization, roadsides are an increasingly important component of regional habitat networks. They frequently support native vegetation, providing refuge for wildlife and connecting fragmented habitat. The wildlife living on roadsides touches communities in every state, province, and county of North America.

  • Artificial Life Created - Era of Synthetic Biology

    Submitted by sarah on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 10:37am

    Scientists have gone beyond genetic engineering, which is simply manipulating or swaping a few genes here and there, and created a new life form from chemicals. We now have "synthetic biology" dawning before us.

    "IN THE end there was no castle, no thunderstorm and definitely no hunchbacked cackling lab assistant. Nevertheless, Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith and their colleagues have done for real what Mary Shelley merely imagined. On May 20th, in the pages of Science, they announced that they had created a living creature.

  • LEED certification and health

    Submitted by sarah on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 8:00pm

    From Environment and Human Health, Inc., www.ehhi.org

  • Hottest April on Record

    Submitted by sarah on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 9:15am

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    The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January-April, according to NOAA. This despite a solar minimum.

  • What Does it Take for Yards and Fields to Go Organic?

    Submitted by sarah on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:41am

    New York just passed a law banning chemical pesticides from all school lawns and turf in the state of New York, signed-off by their governor last week. For those who concern themselves with kids’ health, this act is significant, even a tipping point.  The New York law applies to a whopping 10,000 schools, and might turn some heads.

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