Australia Wages War on Cane Toads

I thought this would be an interesting article because we just saw a movie in class on the cane toad problem.  However, in the movie, the cane toad problem was only beginning to erupt, and things didn’t seem to be too bad.  But now the problem is spreading and its going to take Australia’s military [...]

Borneo Rainforests Yield Secrets of New Species

It is very encouraging to hear that yet another highly biodiverse area of the world is going to be strongly conserved again in an article i read the other day.  Here, in Borneo, a southeast Asian island, a new species of a very tiny fish was discovered in Borneo’s acidic blackwater peat swamps, only one [...]

Britain To Construct World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Two gigantic offshore wind farms, the London Array, which will be the world’s largest when completed, and the Thanet are to be built in the outer Thames Estuary.  The energy generated from them both, about 1.3 gigawatts, will be enough to power one million of London’s three million homes.  This is very encouraging that our world [...]

Reality check: Fuel economy estimates falling

Have you ever driven a car that said it would get unbelievable mileage on the sticker, but when you drove it it didn’t nearly live up to it? Such is the case with almost all vehicles, as those estimates didn’t take into account a number of things.  I thought this would be a good arcticle [...]

Brazil Protects Vast Expanse of Northern Amazon

I read an article that was very encouraging and showed a great sign that our world is beginning to head in the right direction.  It is good to know that their are other leaders in the world that care about the environment and are willing to protect it even if it means the loss of materialistic possessions.
 The governor of Brazil’s [...]

Environmentalists: Lead Pellets Killing Off Condors

Environmentalists advocating for the California Condor sued state wild life regulators Thursday for allowing the use of lead pellets in killing other animals than the condor.  Studies have shown that the condors can die just from eating carcasses contaminated with these lead pellets.  So, disturbingly, these extremely rare birds are being killed off just from [...]