Warming Seas Send Big-Headed Fish Deeper

Once again another negative effect of global warming has surfaced in an article I read today.  Global climate change, as we have discovered, warms oceans which declines fish stock.  However, the eelpouts, an eel like fish that was used in this new study to get more information, are the first to go deeper and see how warmer [...]

Sweden Hopes To Be Totally Green By 2020

As gas prices are at record level and we continue to diminish our world’s fossil fuels, Sweden has taken a step up in a bold move to hopefully pave the way for the rest of the world.  Sweden has made an amazing pledge to phase out fossil fuel use by 2020.  The country currently uses [...]

Chicken Fat May Be Next Biofuel Golden Goose

I read an encouraging article in the Sun Times today that shows that we starting to turn to a cheap waste product as a possible fuel option.  In part thanks to the efforts of Jerry Bagby, chicken fat will now be a more abundant biofuel. 
Bagby found a well that no one else was using and [...]

Researchers Say Warming May Change Amazon

If something is not done to stop or slow down global warming, the world’s largest rainforest could turn into a grassy savannah before the end of the century.  This will be a result of substantially higher temperatures, between five and eight degrees, and substantially lower rainfall, decreasing about fifteen and twenty percent, all until 2100. 
Fortunately, these are extreme [...]

Study: Louisiana Slipping Slowly Into Gulf

A study done by scientists studying the coasts of Louisiana report that Louisiana is not only sinking, but slowly sliding into the Gulf of Mexico.  This will effect the city of New Orleans’ plans and force them to create bigger and better levees, and change the ways engineers will have to build the levees and [...]

Ancient Ice Shelf Breaks Free In Canadian Artic

It was pretty discouraging to here yet another story of a bad effect of global warming.  In this article, scientists have discovered that a giant shelf of ice has snapped free from Ellesmere Island, an island about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Artic.  The Ayles Ice Shelf as it is [...]