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Gulf Coast Oil Spill- the oil comes ashore

D. — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:31:17 +0000

On June 26, 2010 join Hands Across the Sands to protest off-shore oil drilling, at a beach near you!

USCG- Deepwater Horizon oil platform 2010

The Gulf Coast is just now heading into what will be months and years responding to the April BP drilling platform explosion and oil leak. At his point scientists are worried that the oil will spread at least as far as the Florida [...]

Climate change- tree growth, higher seas & green scum

D. — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:08:27 +0000

Interesting recent reports about climate change effects-

About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast: Curiosity Rises With Trees' Strange Growth Spurt- NPR, 3-28-10. Just the fact that this researcher has seen a 12% rise in carbon dioxide in the 23 years he's taken [...]

Moringa Oleifera tree & water treatment

D. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:13:13 +0000

Moringa oleifera (Forest & Kim Starr -http://www.hear.org/starr/)

The Moringa oleifera tree is native to India, and is cultivated widely throughout many countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. (It is not tolerant to frost- so would only grow in some climates.) Many parts of this tree are edible and highly nutritious. (It's called the 'drumstick' tree for it's edible immature green pods.) Organizations like Trees [...]

Seeing white animals

D. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:43:13 +0000

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301531h.html

I keep on seeing stories about white animals, and thought I should look up the recent sightings. Like many people I assumed these white or albino animals are pretty rare, and that they have different meanings in various belief systems. Little did I know. There are people positing new significance to these animals. And it turns out that I shared some misconceptions about the rarity of [...]

Weavings- of spider silk and more

D. — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:46:15 +0000

After 4 years a gold colored tapestry has been made out of spider silk. I've put together articles on the tapestry, information on the golden silk orb spider, and on efforts to develop man-made spider silk. One of the latest attempts to make 'spider silk' fibers is with hagfish slime!

For four years weavers in Madagascar harnessed golden orb spiders to produce silk, and and then [...]

The Earth's hum

D. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:23:55 +0000

The Blue Marble, Visible Earth- NASA

The planet emanates a constant rumble far below the limits of human hearing. Discovered in 1998 this low level "hum" was thought to perhaps be caused by disturbances in the ocean or atmosphere. Scientists now suggest that the Earth’s hum is caused not by earthquakes or atmospheric turbulence, but by ocean waves colliding with the seafloor. It will be interesting [...]

OneGeology- a dynamic geological map of the world

D. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:07:32 +0000

If you study (or hold, collect, revere, or use) rocks and soil, look at this remarkable project to provide geological mapping on a worldwide level.

See here for a general article on the project: Geological mapping gets joined up- BBC News 31 July 2008

Go here for OneGeology, and here for the portal to their map of the world (you can zoom in [...]

Earth's magnetic field & animals research

D. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:08:41 +0000

There's been a whole slew of research showing that animals can sense or use the earth's magnetic fields as an internal compass. (When do they find out humans can sometimes sense these fields also?) Keep on reading to see some of this research.

Cattle shown to align north-south- BBC News 25 August 2008 (Yes- we all thought we noticed this as kids driving on one of those long [...]