The best way to prepare your home for the cold season is to winterize it. There are several steps you can take, all of which will end up saving you hundreds of dollars, and will eliminate hundreds of pounds of carbon emissions. Energy Star, a nationwide energy efficiency program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection [...]

In September of this year, the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center showed that the summertime sea ice cover came very close to a new record low. Joe Comiso, senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard [...]

A recent study released by NASA has shown a massive loss of the protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring. The loss of the ozone in that region is caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. The study, published online today in the journal Nature, discovered [...]

16 people have died in the U.S. from listeria infections that came from cantaloupes grown in Colorado. This makes the outbreak the most deadly American outbreak of food-borne infection since 1998. So far 72 people in 18 states have gotten sick from the listeriosis which was quickly traced to contaminated cantaloupe. This information comes from [...]

Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai passed away today after undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt movement in Kenya in 1977, which has planted more than 10 million trees. She was the first woman in central or eastern Africa to hold a Ph.D., the first woman head of a university [...]

Over a hundred thousand people are marching in central Tokyo, asking their government to no longer use nuclear power. The protests are are due to the March 11 disaster, when an offshore earthquake caused a massive tsunami which destroyed several coastal power plants, causing core meltdowns in the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex. It was the worst [...]

Greenpeace was born in Vancouver in 1971 when a determined group of 17 activists decided to stage a protest against off shore nuclear testing in Alaska. On this date, 40 years ago, the group departed Vancouver in a fishing boat named Greenpeace and sailed towards Amchitka, an island in Alaska where the US was set [...]

Georg Heygster, head of the Physical Analysis of Remote Sensing Images unit at the University of Bremen’s Institute of Environmental Physics recently announced that “on September 8, the extent of the Arctic sea ice was 4.240 million square kilometers (1.637 million square miles). This is a new historic minimum.” Satellite tracking since 1972 shows that [...]

People from all over Vancouver island and the lower mainland were reporting extended periods of time where buildings were swaying and bouncing as a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck. The USGS reports that it was at a depth of 25.9 kilometers, earlier assessments were reporting only two kilometers below the surface. Reports of the quake came [...]

A measure to ban the practice of shark finning has achieved final passage on a bipartisan vote in the state of California. The new law will ban the sale, purchase or possession in California of shark fins, which are consistently used in Chinese cooking. Shark fin sells for over $600 per pound, which has increased [...]