From Margaret Swedish today:
Would it have been better to have prepared for Hurricane Katrina, to have everything in place for a category 4 or 5 storm, and a breach of the levees protecting New Orleans “ something that had been predicted for two decades? Was it better to have gutted the Federal Emergency Management [...]
A Russian government regulatory agency has approved plans to build a 2,500-mile long pipeline that would run perilously close to Lake Baikal, a pristine natural wonder that contains more than 20 percent of the earth’s unfrozen fresh water.
The project, called the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline, will carry oil from eastern Siberia to Asian-Pacific markets. Environmentalists [...]
What will it take to get governments to spring into action appropriate to the real threat of global warming (which some prefer to call œclimate change, but is about warming, nonetheless).?
In yet another instance of the bad news in front of us, London’s The Guardian reports that scientists doing research for the Intergovernmental Panel on [...]
Today’s Washington Post contained a very sad article about the voracious beetle destroying forests in British Colombia: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801772.html. The beetle is not new. What is new is that Canadian winters are no longer cold enough to kill them off, which is crucial for keeping their population under control. The result? Read the article. It is [...]