Environmental Ramblings

This is a place for the free and honest exchange of ideas about many of the ecological and environmental issues that we face on regular basis. You are encouraged to contribute and share your thoughts with your colleagues in a frank but respectful style. The commentary is NOT moderated so please act responsibly. Let us prove Hardin wrong, at least in this space, cooperation is the way out of the tragedy of the commons!!!!

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Chinese Smog in LA ?

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Pollution doesn’t pay attention to national boundaries, so there’s nothing stopping China’s smog from drifting back across the Pacifi...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Air Pollution: More Deadly than you think.

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A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that breathing bad air can heighten the probability of su...
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Sunday, April 06, 2014

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BEIJING — Over the past few years, trips back to my home village, Huaihua Di, on the Lanxi River in Hunan Province, have been clouded...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

US plans to cut Methane emissions

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The Obama administration on Friday announced a strategy to start slashing emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas released by l...
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Air Pollution and Agriculture

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  Ammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated, according to NA...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Passenger Pigeon: Should it be Brought Back?

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It is often said that the passenger pigeon, once among the most abundant birds in North America, traveled in flocks so enormous that t...
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Saturday, March 08, 2014

GMO Salmon will not be labeled

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Stores should be free either to carry the new GMO salmon or not once it is approved, if it is approved. I have a feeling though that many o...
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Sunday, March 02, 2014

China's Looming Water Crisis

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Joshua Bateman 25th February 2014 One uninten...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

World Population Interactive map.

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Copy the following link into your browser and spend sometime exploring the world map( Don't neglect trying all the variables that are sh...
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Saturday, February 08, 2014

Is Climate Change "skepticism"? No, it is "motivated reasoning".

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  David Grimes of the Guardian makes a great point that I have personally held for many years.. I am going to post this to more than...
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Sunday, February 02, 2014

Flood Insurance? Should It Be Gutted?

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As reported by the NYT  Jan 29, 2014 A major flood insurance bill was a rarity when it passed what is widely derided as a do-nothing...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Rewilding?

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(The following appeared in the Sunday issue  ( 1/26/2014) of the NYT. It i...
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