A Bit of Green
For decades we the people have wreaked havoc on your environment and atmosphere without thinking twice about the lasting damage we have caused.
Since the revolution of industry so many years ago, we have been polluting the air and soil with unnatural sources that have rooted themselves deep in the Earth and in our surrounding atmosphere. From simple trash to toxic waste dumped by large corporations, we have succeeded in destroying what used to be a healthy planet.
Our country as a whole is just now starting to take large strides in reversing the damage we have caused. Big businesses, small businesses, and individuals alike are taking steps to be more “green”, or environmentally …

Remember when gas prices rose past $3 a gallon in many cities across the United States? Drivers clamored for alternative fuels so that the country wouldn’t be so reliant on foreign sources of oil. As gas prices have gone back down, the shouts for alternative fuels have quieted.
But that hardly means that the United States doesn’t need to invest its resources into developing green gas alternatives that can not only power our cars and trucks, but the machinery in our factories, too.
Fortunately, there are plenty of researchers and scientists today developing alternative fuels. There’s hope that that one day the United States will no longer have to rely on unstable outside governments to provide as …

Urban workers could suffer most from climate change as the cost of food drives them into poverty, according to a new study that quantifies the effects of climate on the world’s poor populations.
A team led by Purdue University researchers examined the potential economic influence of adverse climate events, such as heat waves, drought and heavy rains, on those in 16 developing countries. Urban workers in Bangladesh, Mexico and Zambia were found to be the most at risk.
“Extreme weather affects agricultural productivity and can raise the price of staple foods, such as grains, that are important to poor households in developing countries,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, the associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and interim director …

Chemistry researchers uncover why the archean world was not frozen solid
When Planet Earth was just cooling down from its fiery creation, the sun was faint and young. So faint that it should not have been able to keep the oceans of earth from freezing. But fortunately for the creation of life, water was kept liquid on our young planet.
For years scientists have debated what could have kept earth warm enough to prevent the oceans from freezing solid. Now a team of researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Copenhagen’s Department of Chemistry have coaxed an explanation out of ancient rocks, as reported in this week’s issue of PNAS
A perfect greenhouse gas
- “The young …

Massive burning of forests for agriculture thousands of years ago may have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to alter global climate and usher in a warming trend that continues today, according to a new study that appears online Aug. 17 in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County say that today’s 6 billion people use about 90 percent less land per person for growing food than was used by far smaller populations early in the development of civilization. Those early societies likely relied on slash-and-burn techniques to clear large tracts of land for relatively small levels of food production.
“They used more land for farming because they …

At this time it seems like the credit crisis is much more important than the energy crisis in America. But with the economy slowly turning around, energy consumption will increase and oil prices will once again begin a steep climb as more and more people will be driving and using electricity at home as things improve.
In fact, the annual World Energy Outlook predicts that by 2030 oil prices will stabilize at around $125 a barrel. Part of the reason for the increase will also be because of rising costs for equipment that the oil producers will face.
Even though the top oil companies are still extremely profitable, it is becoming clear that their control over energy …

Green vehicles refer to vehicles with low or no emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
The different types of green vehicles are mostly ones that use alternative energy sources either wholly or partly instead of the fossil fuel. Alternative energy refers to non-petroleum products such as electricity, alcohol, biodiesel, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas and petroleum gas, liquids made from coal and compressed natural gas. There are electric vehicles that mostly use less fuel. They are considered to be more efficient in comparison to fuel-cell powered vehicles. However, fuel-cell powered vehicles are more popular since they consume less petrol making them cheaper to manage. They emit less carbon dioxide in to the air as compared to …