The National Wildlife Federation, 13 of its affiliates, and Golden Gate Audubon filed suit today challenging the Bush administration’s regulations weakening the consultation requirements of the Endangered Species Act. According … Read more
Global Warming
Extending the University’s Influence–AASHE 2008
Sustainability is rarely defined as a single-entity problem, especially when considering recent economic and political traumas. Gordon Rands of Western Illinois University and Mark Starik of George Washington University argued … Read more
MU Researchers Find that Submerged Oak Trees Store Carbon 2,000 Years Longer
The role that forests play in climate conditions is vast and complex, including conversion of carbon dioxide into oxygen, stabilization of coastlines and open terrain, shade provision, and the reflection … Read more
CRA Climate Analysis: “Extreme Again”
The national Chamber of Commerce and the American Council for Capital Formation are holding events in select states using biased, polluter-funded “analysis” of climate legislation to discourage Congress from moving … Read more
Computer Software to Help Save Endangered Animals
A guest post by Mahesh Basantani, a research scholar in Botany who also writes for Inabitat, a green design blog. Species extinction is a natural phenomenon with one to five … Read more