When you first see an Okapi your initial immediate thought is that someone left the barn door open and a horse met a zebra. Yet, the strange looking animal actually is more closely related to the giraffe than it is the zebra! With somewhat long necks and massive tongues, they are a breed unto their ...

I don't get to brag on my fellow Kentuckians nearly as often as I would like. However, last week Representatives John Yarmuth and Ben Chandler stood up against Mountaintop Removal in sponsoring the Clean Water Protection Act. That's one reason to cheer. And they're not the only ones from the Bluegra...

China's massive tree-planting scheme masks disastrous deforestation and damage to biodiversity thanks to the country's insatiable desire for wood Viewed from the snow-covered hills of Tangwanghe, the forests of China's Great Green Wall seem to stretch out endlessly towards the horizon. The man-made ...

Williamstown, MA - The Environmental Initiatives Committee of the First Congregational Church of Williamstown invites the public to the first in what they hope will be a series of environmental readings and discussions at 7 pm on Friday, March 20 in the Church Library. At this first meeting, they wi...

BMI's Dan Gainor has a great column on the Fox Forum about the silence around "global cooling." This is the winter of environmentalists’ discontent. They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore’s truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars ...

ROCKVILLE, MD (MARKET WIRE) MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "Corn Prices To Hit The US Ethanol Market Hard," to their collection of Ethanol market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/redirect.asp?progid=67618&productid=2068194...

WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) Yesterday House and Senate leaders introduced bipartisan legislation designed to alleviate funding problems caused by emergency wildland fire costs. The Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act (FLAME Act) (H.R. 1404) was introduced in the U.S. House of Re...

In January during a U.S. Senate hearing on TVA's December coal ash spill in Kingston, California Democrat Barbara Boxer was leading calls for the mega-utility to come out of the disaster as a leader in green power research. At the same event Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander looked like he was pl...

Related Articles Pyrosequencing of the chaperonin-60 (cpn60) universal target as a tool for determining the composition of microbial communities. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Mar 6; Authors: Schellenberg J, Links MG, Hill JE, Dumonceaux TJ, Peters GA, Tyler S, Ball TB, Severini A, Plummer FA We comp...

The second session today I'd like to share with you was presented by a personal friend of mine, Jeremy Faludi. Jer started his session entitled "Priorities for a Greener World: If You Could Design Anything, What Should You Do?" by pointing out that if we want to change the world, we ought to know wh...