Is the 'plants love CO2' theory valid? Plants use CO2 from the atmosphere to grow.  It follows that more CO2 will promote more growth.  That is the gist of the 'plants love CO2' theory.…

Why Plants Can't Sequester Excess CO2 Plants love CO2, right? More CO2 makes plants grow more, right? It follows that a global rise in atmospheric CO2 will produce healthier plants globally, right?…

I think that most of the tiger conservation projects in India have not done very well because of corruption. The import and exportation of tiger parts is a sizable business but just try to…

Federal Regulators Allowed Oil Companies To Decide Safety Issues I noted in my recent article Oil Spills And Troubled Waters: When safety depends on the ability to shut down a system by blocking a…

Despite ongoing threats to rain forests in the Amazon and Congo river basins, researchers studying the latest satellite data say that the greatest loss in forest cover from 2000 to 2005 wasn’t in…

Arctic Ice May 2010 The Arctic melt, already more rapid than average this year, has begun to accelerate. I have no doubt that by the end of this month, May 2010, there will be much less sea ice than…

Wild WellsCaution: satire alert! The current slight mishap in the Gulf of Mexico is just another oil spill. So says BP and the media, and we all know we can trust them to be honest and ethical. The…

As concern grows after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico two weeks ago, scientists are monitoring the situation closely with ESA's Envisat radar data. The…

The UN-requested review of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to beheaded by Harold T. Shapiro, former president of Princeton. Shapiro, along with 11 others, will analyse “…

Trees help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are preventing them from performing this very important function. According to a new study in PNAS, in some…