Scottish Red Squirrel wallpaper 1280×1024
The red squirrel population in Scotland is in decline mostly because the North American grey Squirrel was introduced there. Some think that the grey squrrel out compeats the red because cannot digest acorns. The other major factor is that the grey while a carrier of squirrel parapoxvirus is immune to the [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Red Squirrel wallpaper, FDA Halts Chinese Seafood Imports, Bobolinks and Farmers
Posted in Environment-wildlife, Health, News, Society & Culture on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
U.S. Coastal Islands Face Rising Seas, iPhone FAQ Links, Eagle Populations Recovering
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, News, Society & Culture, Tech on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Coyote Gulch Utah wallpaper
I posted about this yesterday UN issues desertification warning
On the other end of the catastrophe spectrum are people that live on the Delta Islands, Rising sea levels could swallow California’s delta islands
Some islands sit 25 feet below sea level, kept dry only by an aging network of fragile levees that channel [...]
Gray Fox Kit wallpaper, What’s in Red Bull, Environmental degradation fueling Sudan problems
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, News, Society & Culture on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gray Fox kits wallpaper 1280×1024
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Urocyon
What’s Inside: Red Bull, synthetic bull spit for one. Seriously.
UN report says environmental degradation triggering tensions in Sudan
Environmental degradation is among the root causes of decades of conflict in Sudan, a new United Nations report argues, warning that the country is unlikely to see [...]
Floor heating systems not so new concept, Lake Peter wallpaper, Sequencing the genome of Neanderthals
Posted in History, Science, Society & Culture, Tech on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ancient ‘Ondol’ Heating Systems Discovered in Alaska
What are believed to be the world’s oldest underfloor stone-lined-channel heating systems have been discovered in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in the U.S. The heating systems are remarkably similar to ondol, the traditional Korean indoor heating system. The word ondol, along with the word kimchi, is listed in the Oxford [...]
Trying to define “green” products, Cow Meadow Bliss wallpaper, From dairy farm to wind farm
Posted in Environment-Energy, Environment-General, News, Science, economics on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At Home Depot, How Green Is That Chainsaw?
….some environmentalists say that Home Depot is being too inclusive. In the process, they say, it is engaging in its own kind of overstated marketing, posing as green even as it continues to sell powerful pesticides and polluting lawnmowers.
Green, after all, has become the new “new and improved,” [...]
