Blogs & Ecology

Despite the major improvements made in satellite technology and modeling over the past few years, predicting future climate change remains a tricky matter. Taking into account the often conflicting reams of data provided by researchers and monitoring technologies results in the creation of imperfect models that inevitably fail to accurately represent all aspects of the changing climate.

It is in the hope of tackling this vexing problem that scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) are preparing to launch the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explor...

In my last blog, I confessed my antipathy for camping. Today, I've got something a little hotter: two weeks ago, two Earthwatch colleagues and I took off our pants together behind the catering tent at a swanky cocktail party on the Charles River in Boston.

(Let me take this opportunity to issue our deepest apologies to the wait staff and to those unfortunate families touring the river on the famed Duck Boat tour that evening.)

Image by: Deng Cheng-hong

The Organic Food Guide is a short book by the Sproutman, also known as Steve Meyerowitz. Meyerowitz simply writes about the technical and legal aspects of being organic. He also discusses green practices such as all natural, biodynamic and free-range. He gives suggestions about being more locally and globally green. All the green buzzwords that are being tossed around are mentioned in this small book. This book is important for you newbies or old green veterans to read.

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An area equivalent to the European Union -- roughly 3.5 to 4.5 million sq. km -- burns every year, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (sub. required). Kevin Tansey, a geographer at the University of Leicester, and a team of international researchers have produced the first map showing the Earth's "fire scars" between 2000 and 2007....

By Ben Ray
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The Creation Museum, an international abomination laying just a few miles from the Cincinnati-Northern KentuckyAirport, is only one year old, but it’s already had enough success that it’s planning to expand over the next year. Ken Ham, who founded “Answers in Genesis,” the fundamentalist religious organization that established the museum, said that the focus would be largely on making it more “kid-friendly” with a series of kiosks throughout the museum, and an outdoor playground

Ah, Earth Day. Annually marked on the 22nd of every April, unless you work for HOK, in which case it’s Go Barefoot Day. But close enough.

Image from Charming Milo

How did this holiday, which usually only gets play with people like the EG staff and elementary schools, come to pass? And what does it have to do with “Green Acres?”

Probably, concede scientists– the pounding of waves on the continents make it possible that the Earth not only hums at a resonance below the human range of hearing, but is part of a larger interstellar symphony that passes several octaves below our sensory perception every day.

Image,  from NASA, NOAA, and USGS.

This poses the very valid question, how did we figure out that the planet makes noise?

Earth Day will be coming up soon and so far this year, not many people have made a fuss about it…

Image from Cre8or on Flickr.

 Anyway, this time round, architectural firm HOK has just given up and re-branded the darn thing. Now, it’s “Go Barefoot Day.”

What did you think of the reviews this week from our female reviewers? Did you see The Bergen Record article? Leafygreen.info and the Nets are Going Green next week at the first Carbon Neutral game on Tuesday, April 1st.

Environmental Graffiti is pleased to partner with Earth-Touch to bring you a weekly series of incredible, all-natural wildlife videos.

Earth-Touch captures video in the least intrusive way possible, and doesn’t try to sensationalize their content. We’ll bring you the best of their content every week. This week, we have a special underwater edition, with some amazing clips from beneath the seas.

Knox’s Wireless Green is a rundown of all the week’s most interesting, weird, and popular stories from the worlds of science and the environment.

Knox’s Wireless Green is a rundown of all the week’s most interesting, weird, and popular stories from the worlds of science and the environment.