Obama Plans to Redirect the Mississippi; Restore Wetlands?

This might be one of the most astounding and positive things to come out of the Obama white house, that is, if it turns out this idea is more than just political posturing and an actual goal of the President. Long story short: the possibility of a “Gulf Recovery Act” on par with the Tennessee [...]

Hypocrisy Watch: ACORN Versus BP

“This is not an environmental disaster. And I will say that again and again, because it it a natural phenomenon” – Rep. Don Young (R-AK) How do you sleep at night, saying things like that? My personal guess is on a very comfortable mattress in a very nice home, tuckered out after counting your stacks [...]

Wetlands or Greed?

A lovely op-ed piece about the nature of the Gulf Coast oil spill, the untenable position of current regulation, and the inherent trade-off between the exploitation of natural resources and the preservation of our environment – and all the ecosystem services it provides. Coming from a state with an extensive (and some would say pristine) [...]

The Moon and the Nobel Peace Prize

Today was an eventful day! You may have heard that NASA launched a projectile into the moon, in an attempt to locate large deposits of water. Here are the facts: our national space agency sent a 2.2-ton empty rocket stage crashing into the south pole of the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, [...]

Texas Steps Backward on Science Standards

This week the Texas State Board of Education voted to place a fudgy ‘strengths and weaknesses’-like wording into the state science standards, using the language “all sides of scientific evidence”. This sort of wording allows for the introduction of all sorts of textbook wording that supports creationist-inspired tearing down of Evolution. Just look at the way [...]