More oil slicks being discovered in Gulf of Mexico

As time goes by boat captians are finding additional oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico waters Possibly these are the remains of the BP / Transocean oil spill , even worse these may be unreported oil spills from other gulf water oil facilities. It is very common for oil company personnel to intentionally fail […]

Randall Amster: New Clear Energy

Humanity is on a collision course with reality, and the window of time in which to act is rapidly closing. This isn’t a product of “dismal science” or political posturing, but merely a reflection of the hole we have steadily dug for ourselves over the past two centuries. If we don’t make wholesale changes immediately, […]

World population will exceed 9 billion in 2050

The world’s population is expected to exceed 9 billion in 2050. The countries with over 100 million people will be increased to 17. India will replace China to become the world’s largest country with a population of 1.6 billion, according to the report titled “State of World Population 2010,” which was issued by World Population […]

Pure water as global strategic resource

A priority task for all countries is to preserve pure water which is becoming one of the main strategic resources on the planet. This is what Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at the International Forum “Pure Water-2010” in Moscow. Over two and a half billion people lack drinking water today, he stressed. This figure may […]

WWF: All living beings on Earth become extinct

According to the report of WWF Living Planet, prepared for the opening of the UN conference on the conservation of wildlife diversity, which began on October 18 in Japan, the population of all living beings on the planet is sharply reducing, as humanity consumes 50% more resources than is resumed. But how accurate is this […]

Population Pressure on Natural Resources; By 2030 We Will Need Two Earths To Survive

According to the estimates by United States Census Bureau, the population of the world is 6.875 billion. The world’s population has significantly increased in the last 50 years, mainly due to medical advancements and substantial increases in agricultural productivity. According to the World Development Indicator published by the World Bank on October 2, 2010, the […]

What constitutes overpopulation in America?

Little known and always avoided, the United States faces THE single greatest issue of its existence in the 21st century. “What is it?” you ask. Top environmental experts respond, “Overpopulation!” We ignore, evade and suppress this issue at every level in America. Citizens pursue their daily tasks without understanding the ramifications of this civilization adding […]

Slowing population: Would it curb climate change?

Ever since belching smokestacks arose during the Industrial Revolution, greenhouse gases and human population have climbed in lockstep to higher and higher levels. And while scientists warn that humanity must dramatically slash future carbon-dioxide emissions to avert extended droughts, floods and other climate catastrophes, they have generally avoided a rigorous examination of how slowing population […]

Canada Sees Climate Change Prosperity Instead of Calamity

The first comprehensive look at the expected impacts of climate change on Canada offers an embarrassing and misleading “don’t worry, be happy” vision, citing more golf days and better access to northern deposits of oil and gas courtesy of global warming, critics say. “The chart needs to be withdrawn,” said climate scientist Danny Harvey of […]

A stronger Sun actually cools the Earth

An increase in solar activity from the Sun actually cools the Earth, suggests new research that will renew the debate over the science behind climate change. The research overturns traditional assumptions about the relationship between the sun and global warming. Focused on a three-year snapshot of time between 2004 and 2007, the findings will be […]

Population growth is an age-old problem, get used to it

When it comes to questions of population, we are often instinctively pessimistic. Thomas Malthus, an early 19th century English philosopher, famously thought that unchecked population growth would lead to worldwide famine and disaster. Two hundred years later, Dick Smith runs a similar line. With images of natural disasters on our TV screens and traffic jams […]

Spill panel says it’s getting the silent treatment

The leaders of a federal probe into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill complained Tuesday that companies involved in drilling BP’s doomed Macondo well are stonewalling their investigation. William Reilly, the co-chairman of the national commission on the spill, said a number of people have declined to comment on the record about what happened on […]

Geoengineering May Represent Earth’s Best “Plan B”

Beyond Copenhagen and Cancún, a different climate debate has been brewing. The outcome of this debate, however, will affect far more than the climate, and that is precisely why it is so contentious. As many countries continue to refuse to cap their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change-induced emergencies become increasing likely – or frequent […]

BBC: Billions at risk of ‘water insecurity’

About 80% of the world’s population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis. Researchers compiled a composite index of “water threats” that includes issues such as scarcity and pollution. The most severe threat category encompasses 3.4 billion people. Writing in the journal Nature, they say […]

One-Fifth Of World’s Plant Life Facing Extinction

More than one-fifth of the world’s plant population could face the threat of extinction, according to research released by British researchers and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Wednesday. The Sampled Red List Index for Plants, a study conducted by experts from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the Natural History Museum, London; […]

Questions About Fracturing

The Environmental Protection Agency is about to begin a much-needed study of the health and environmental effects of extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing. The issue isn’t whether the country should keep drilling for natural gas, which is vital to our energy future. It is whether it can be done this way safely. A 2004 […]

BP and Government Representatives Still Keeping Scientists and Reporters Away from Areas Impacted by Oil

As shown by the following videos, BP and government representatives are still keeping scientists and reporters away from areas impacted by oil. Award-winning investigative reporter Dahr Jamail says in a new interview that a federal agent confiscated Gulf oil samples: Representatives of the oil spill commission are harassing independent scientists who are finding contamination in […]

world population growth

– In 1900, the world’s population stood at around 1.65 billion. By 2000, it had reached six billion. Today it is more than 6.8 billion, growing at around 78 million a year. By early 2012, it will exceed seven billion. – The highest rate of population growth was in the late 1960s, at 2.04 percent, […]

Cement flows for permanent plug of BP’s Gulf well

Crews pumped cement into BP’s blown-out oil well thousands of feet below the sea bottom Saturday, working to finally seal the runaway well. Engineers initially had planned to pump in mud before the cement, but a BP spokesman said that wasn’t necessary because there was no pressure building inside the well. BP expects the well […]

Researchers to Fight Global Warming by Shooting Sulfates into Stratosphere

Models show a 90 percent reduction of the magnitude of climate change. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology are looking to optimize climate change reduction by injecting sulfates into the stratosphere. George Ban-Weiss, lead author of the study, along with his team of Carnegie scientists, have studied how the injection of aerosols […]

Gov’t: BP Well to Be Sealed – for Good – Sunday

The U.S. government’s point man on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said Wednesday that BP’s blown-out well is expected to be permanently sealed and declared dead by Sunday, nearly five months after a rig explosion set off the disaster. National Incident Commander Thad Allen told reporters gathered at a seafood distributor in Kenner, Louisiana, […]

Which Comes First – Peak Everything or Peak Us?

Are humans capable of influencing which comes first — peak everything or peak us? There are plentiful signs that the planet’s human population –- after centuries of explosive growth — will crest within the next couple of generations. A mid-range  best guess for the peak remains roughly 9 billion people. (As Gary Peters, one of my […]

Scientists Find Thick Coat of Oil on Gulf Sea Floor

Researchers say they’ve found patches of oil believed to be from the BP leak on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor. Some of these are two inches thick. University of Georgia researcher Samantha Joye (JOY) says she and her colleagues have found oil as much as 80 miles from the Deepwater Horizons well. She says […]

Federal Agencies Outline Plans for Curbing Fossil Fuels, Emissions

The White House released federal agencies’ sustainability plans yesterday, providing the first detailed glimpse of how the government plans to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10 years. The basics among the 50-plus government agencies and offices are similar: Many plan to cut direct emissions by making infrastructure improvements, reducing fossil fuel use […]

The Earth Doesn’t Care About what is done to or for it

What humans do to, and ostensibly for, the earth does not matter in the long run, and the long run is what matters to the earth. We must, Laughlin says, think about the earth’s past in terms of geologic time. For example: The world’s total precipitation in a year is about one meter—“the height of […]

BP is pressing on with its relief well

BP will go ahead with plans to deliver a death blow to the blown-out well that spilled almost 5 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico even though findings in its own investigation of the disaster raise questions about whether the procedure is still needed. Although he has emphasized the Macondo well poses […]

SciAm: How Much Global Warming Is Guaranteed

All the world’s power plants, vehicles and factories that presently exist may not emit enough carbon dioxide to cause catastrophic climate change Humanity has yet to reach the point of no return when it comes to catastrophic climate change, according to new calculations. If we content ourselves with the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure we can hold […]

Are the Polar Ice Caps Melting Slower Than We Thought?

It’s one of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists today: how vulnerable are the vast ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica to rising temperatures? An unfathomable amount of ice is stored on those two land masses, and as that ice melts and flows into the oceans, global sea levels rise—if all the ice on […]

Reconstructing Climate Change

Through the whole year of 2009, building up to the failed Copehagen “climate summit”, climate change was heavily promoted by a small but powerful group of OECD political leaders and their corporate, press and media elites as a major challenge to the planet and to our way of life. It was also the big signal […]

Federal officials won’t talk about blowout preventer

The Justice Department won’t say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP’s undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore. Spokeswoman Hannah August declined to comment today. The 50-foot, 300-ton device, which was lifted to the surface Saturday, is expected to be analyzed at […]

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