The Arctic's Warming Islands

The Arctic's Warming Islands

The Arctic's Warming Islands In 2005, as Greenland's glacier cover receded due to global warming, what had formerly been known as a cape was shown to be an island.  It made headlines.  On…
How Wrong Is The Latest "Dirty Dozen" List?

How Wrong Is The Latest "Dirty Dozen" List?

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) says that it "helps protect your family from pesticides." The purpose of this Applied Mythology post is to "help protect your family from dangerously…
Nitrate Can Take A Decade To Affect Water Quality

Nitrate Can Take A Decade To Affect Water Quality

The movement of nitrate through groundwater to streams can take decades to occur and that long lag time means that changes in the use of nitrogen-based fertilizer (the typical source of nitrate) may…
Feed Billions More People By Reducing Food Waste

Feed Billions More People By Reducing Food Waste

The world produces a lot of food, enough to feed billions more than are living right now. There is a distribution issue, which will be solved as science engineers more crops that can grow in more…
Climate Science

Climate Science

If there is a contentious and politicized branch of science today it is climate science. Either it's global warming, or global cooling, but we have settled on climate change, just in case it goes in…
Nanotechnology Superdangerous Biotech

Nanotechnology Superdangerous Biotech

Globally existential threats due to ‘overpopulation momentum’ together with the top-heavy age structure leave by now no alternative to radical technological adaptation for anything that wants to…