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I’ve always been fascinated by crow intelligence and at the same time amazed how few people recognize this intelligence especially since, according to some cognitive research, theirs exceeds that of dogs. This video lecture from a writer Joshua Klein, who has been involved with an amateur study of corvid behavior, highlights this.
Of course [...]
More Web Sightings hereBisphenol A or BPA is an important industrial chemical used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. The plastics industry maintains that BPA is completely safe. But academic and government researchers say the chemical needs to undergo a new risk assessment.
...Read MorePercholorethylene, commonly known as perc, is used by about 80 percent of U.S. dry cleaners to remove stains and clean clothes.
When first introduced to dry cleaners in the 1930s, little was known about its health effects, and it was considered something of a miracle chemical because it could be aggressive on stains, but was not [...]
...Read MoreThe principle of maximum diversity operates both at the physical and at the mental level. It says that the laws of nature and the initial conditions are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. As a result, life is possible but not too easy. Always when things are dull, something [...]
Not that we needed any more proof…
The Earth is absorbing more energy from the Sun than it is giving back into space, according to a new study by climate scientists in the US.
They base their findings on computer models of climate, and on measurements of temperature in the oceans.
The group describes its results as “the [...]
The Green Guide has a list of the top ten “green” cities that are kindest both to the environment and our health. They examined things such as public transportation, alternative and efficient energy usage, green building practices, environmental quality, parks, green belts, local agriculture, among other things. None of this seems to be [...]
(April 28, 2005) — ALBANY — Pockets of upstate, including Rochester and Buffalo, have slightly more smoggy days than New York City, according to a new American Lung Association report.
Chautauqua County, in the southwest corner of the state, had 15 high-ozone days from 2001 to 2003, the most of New York’s 62 counties. Buffalo had [...]
The on-line, peer-reviewed journal “Ecology and Society” has a new special feature article relating to urban sprawl, Industrial Restructuring and Urban Change in the Pittsburgh Region: Developmental, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Trade-offs which some may find enlightening. The socioeconomic and land-use changes examined in their study have obvious parallels to most rust-belt cities. And [...]
The New Yorker has a decent article on global climate change – part I in a three-part series written by Elizabeth Kolbert.
The American Geophysical Union, one of the nation’s largest and most respected scientific organizations, decided in 2003 that the matter had been settled. At the group’s annual meeting that year, it issued [...]
Conditions along Lake Ontario’s south and east in-shore areas—the embayments as they are called: rivers, creeks, streams, ponds, bays and wetlands—are as polluted as ever, or even more so, and have largely been neglected and overlooked in the laudable efforts to clean up the Great Lakes.
One of the lead environmental researchers studying what are called [...]
Birds, including threatened and endangered species, are at the center of a dispute over a $250 million wind-turbine complex that a Chicago company wants to build in east central Wisconsin. Invenergy Wind LLC hopes to erect 133 turbines, each standing 389 feet tall, across 50 square miles of farmland just east of Horicon Marsh, a [...]
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The prospect of vapor intrusion—a process where gases from subterranean chemicals seep into basements—has brought new urgency to cleaning a Broome County-owned site on Maple Street where pollution has been flowing underground for a decade or more.
Work is expected to begin this summer at the former Chenango Industries site, once a circuit board assembler at [...]
Corning Leader – Farmers struggle with gas prices
The soaring price of oil and gasoline are cutting into the pockets of local farmers, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday.
Stumping for New York agriculture, Schumer called on President Bush to take cost-staving steps and ease the burden of inflated gas prices.
Agricultural fuel prices have risen over 35 [...]
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