Way up in the Alaskan wilderness is a place called Chicken where 17 full-time residents and a few dozen seasonal staff work at small, family-run gold mines. So it was more than a little shocking when eight armed men from a federal Environmental Crimes Taskforce showed up in full body armor to check the water quality?
The EPA recently announced its first-ever rules on the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from new power plants. But while many Green spokesmen and global warming believers hailed this as a major breakthrough, the EPA itself says the proposed rule will yield no actual emissions reductions or benefits whatsoever over the next 10 years.
A recent UN climate report claims to be more certain than ever that humans are responsible for so-called global warming. Dr. Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, disagrees. . .
After hearing predictions from the Sierra Club and BBC that the Arctic Sea would be ice free this past summer due to global warming, a variety of adventurous yacht, sailboat, rowboat, and even kayak owners thought it would be neat to sail the fabled Northwest Passage.
Everyone knows backpackers need a sleeping bag, flashlight, and canteen. But what about a 500 watt generator?
What can we do to clean up our oceans? Well one surprising answer may be to open up our coastlines to more offshore oil drilling, according to Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
America’s “Yankee ingenuity” has brought us everything from the airplane to the light bulb, but can it now help us find a cheap, plentiful form of homegrown domestic energy?
The pygmy rabbit, whose size is not much bigger than a man’s hand, was thought to be nearing extinction in Washington’s Columbia basin in 2003. Since that time, wildlife officials have undertaken to save the furry critter and today some 20 of them are, so to speak, back in their native holes.
While everyone knows you can’t mix oil with water, it appears the same cannot be said of coffee with fire.
You’ve heard about microwaving a frozen dinner or popcorn, but how about an airplane? Well just such a contraption was recently developed in Norway and promises both safety and environmental benefits.
A new, high-protein and low-cost food for people struggling with hunger in developing nations may soon be available thanks to advances in biotechnology.
Despite protection by the federal government, coral reef coverage in the Florida Keys has declined dramatically in recent years. Reed Watson of the Property and Environment Resource Center believes free-market intervention may help address this problem and here explains why.
The process of “hydraulic fracturing,” known as fracking, has come under attack by activists for allegedly contaminating drinking water. But a new study by the Department of Energy should allay these concerns.
As Western states continue to develop their oil and gas resources, environmentalists are increasingly concerned about how such activity will impact prairie chickens. Fortunately, local farmers, industry officials, and environmentalists have been working together and are now pitching a free-market solution . . .
Despite sixteen years of no global warming, a UN climate panel nevertheless now claims it is 95% certain humans are causing global warming. Marc Morano, editor of ClimateDepot.com, says this is absurd, and here explains why.
Environmental groups often like to portray themselves as “blue-jean defenders of Mother Earth.” But would it surprise you this is largely a myth?
President Obama recently stated “We’ve got to look at the energy sources of the future.” And while he was specifically pointing to wind and solar power, it appears he’s overlooking what his own Department of Energy recently reported will dominate the next 30 years of energy production – namely fossil fuels.
Is the science surrounding global warming being co-opted to serve a political agenda? Well that’s the troubling conclusion of MIT climatologist Dr. Richard Lindzen who says so-called “climatism” is the most prominent recent example of corrupted science.
You sometimes charge your cell phone in the kitchen, and sometimes in the car. But how about in the lavatory, water closet, or the loo? Well that may sound strange, but a research team in England has created a microbial fuel cell, or MFC, that can turn organic matter – in this case urine – into electricity.
One of the saddest environmental stories has been the fungal blight that destroyed millions of American chestnut trees in the first half of the 20th Century. But now, according to the New York Times, two research groups may be closing in on a long-sought solution.