Category Archives: environment

Urban streams with green walls

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

For large urban streams, decades of infrastructure development have often pinned the stream into a narrow corridor. There are ways that existing artificial structures can be put to work to mitigate some of the ecological impacts of urbanization.
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Categories: by Anne, environment, hydrology, paper reviews

Top Kill: what BP is trying to do

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Chris Rowan

How injecting drilling mud can hopefully stem the well leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Categories: environment, geohazards, geology

Drilling for oil is more risky than it used to be

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Our unabated demand for oil is driving drilling in places where accidents of this sort – major, hard to stem leaks – are going to be a major risk.
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Categories: environment, geohazards

A uniformitarian approach to Earth day

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Chris Rowan

I’m sure recycling prose is good for the environment somehow.
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Categories: environment, links, ranting

Coal and the fossil record of climate change in the Canadian High Arctic

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
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Categories: by Anne, Cenozoic, climate science, environment, fossils, photos

7 glaciers melting

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Chris Rowan

On the 7th day of Christmas my true love sent to me…
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Categories: climate science, environment

Some opinions on geoengineering

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Chris Rowan

including mine.
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Categories: climate science, environment, links

Anthropogenic biomes

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

“Anthropogenic biomes are in many ways a more accurate description of broad ecological patterns within the current terrestrial biosphere than are conventional biome systems that describe vegetation patterns based on variations in climate and geology.”
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Categories: environment

The puddle that was once a sea

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Chris Rowan

This image, just released from NASA’s Earth Observatory, is both scary and beautiful This is – or was – the Aral Sea*. 50 years ago, it was a substantial body of water. Then, the rivers that fed it were diverted … Continue reading →

Categories: environment, geology, photos