Every night I have certain rituals that must be executed, or else. Not sure what else really, but I fear that it involves my hospitalization. Let us say that in order to avoid nervous breakdowns, I…

One long-standing myth is that any law claiming to be good for the environment is actually good for the environment.   Anyone living along levees in the South who watched environmental lawsuits…

Unfortunate subsets of some militant environmental groups believe that anyone who uses the land, including quite responsibly, is an enemy.    That isn't the case.  Science advancements…

Geobacter can clean up uranium but a new study documenting how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals could mean a big benefit for contaminated sites in…

The Lacey Act is one of few government regulations I have praised for its effectiveness.  Few government regulations are actually designed to help anyone, they are either designed to hobble…

One of the stranger claims of anti-science hippies is that there is not only a difference between 'organic' food (and apparently 'inorganic' food, whatever that could be) in structure - and if you…

We got a tenth of an inch of rain yesterday -- such a microscopic amount.  The pond levels are down five feet from normal.  It's much less than the water level drop in areas like Lake…

The drought continues and our ponds shrink at Trinity River Audubon Center.  I'm torn between fascination about the process and worried for the life and diversity that we've worked so hard to…

If one amasses wealth at the expense of innocent people circumventing the law to their advantage because masses do not have resources or knowhow or infrastructure or man power to make money through…

University of Alberta researcher David Bressler has an idea for the future of recycling. Using throwaway parts of beef carcasses that were sidelined from the value-added production process after Mad-…