Reducing electricity consumption both at home and at the office is important. Not only can it help the environment but it can help save money for individuals and businesses as well. There is an overwhelming amount of information available on…
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Not so long ago if you were to mention Eyjafjallajökull, people within earshot would probably have assumed you were speaking in tongues. But now, this small Icelandic volcano is making headlines all over the world. After erupting on the 14th…
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Water is the reason life exists our special planet Earth. Pollution to our groundwater isn’t intentional, it is a result of technology and the way humanity has been able to flourish. Pollution, in a sense, has become a way of…
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Ludlow, California is a sad place. It used to be a town in support of a booming mine that later played out. A ghost town that will not just give up and die, Ludlow was later a water stop for…
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Every time a volcano erupts, the subject of geoengineering arises, and Iceland’s recent event won’t be any different. The question is, however, could this “cure” for the earth’s problems be more dangerous than the problem itself. Geoengineering is the somewhat…
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Oil and gas production methods are dangerous and require special fail-safe devices and constant monitoring, even under the best situations. However, when they are in the water, miles from land, they pose a whole different level of concern. While accidents…
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Bioremediation was born in the era of the 1980s when the US Federal Government commissioned a study of the interactions between toxic substances and the environment. Some sites were so profoundly contaminated that the costs and the damage to the…
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There are several fail safes considered standard mandatory safety equipment on every modern oil drilling rig. Each safety procedure and item has been proven over time to be a major factor in saving human lives, securing capital equipment and protecting the environment by preventing and/or shutting-down a potential danger, e.g., over-pressure, explosion…
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What, exactly, are peat bogs? They develop when the water at the ground surface is acidic, either because the ground water is acidic or is entirely from rain. When rain fed, bogs are of the ombrotrophic class. These very sensitive…
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The fugitives of environmental crime are usually human beings. As much of a traitor as I may be by pointing the finger at my own race, human beings have a history of destroying the environment through their direct and indirect…
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