Now It's Official: There Is Water on the Moon Nov 14, 2009
Analysis of the water ice may give scientists an eons-long look at environmental history: any ice lurking in the shadows of lunar craters would have been there for a long, long time billions of years, even. On Earth, for example, scientists get their best information about the planet's climatic history from ancient air trapped in polar ice, says Greg Delory of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. (Time.com)
New SC Johnson Ad Inspired by Family Nov 3, 2009
To view the new ad and to learn more about SC Johnson's environmental history, visit. SC Johnson is a family-owned and managed business dedicated to innovative, high-quality products, excellence in the workplace and a long-term commitment to the environment and the communities in which it operates. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
ASU exceeds $300 million in research expenditures Oct 28, 2009
Another grant aided in the development of a research, teaching and outreach program on the cultural and environmental history of the Sky Islands borderlands region of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. The fourth project, Becoming Arizona, is the development of an online e-cyclopedia of Arizona history, culture, politics, economics and other topics as a tribute to Arizona's centennial in 2012. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
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The buildings south wing, to house an exhibition titled Dinosaur Mysteries, will arrive in 2011, and a third wing focused on environmental history will debut in 2012, said a museum spokeswoman. At. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Sustainability speaker series continues at BHSU Sep 22, 2009
Schmidt has led sustainability-related study trips to Poland and Brazil and has taught environmental history at SDSU.. Friday, Sept. 25 at 10 a.m. Meier 127: Schmidt will speak about permaculture, which he says draws together landscape and people to provide food, energy, shelter and other needs in sustainable ways. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
What clean energy bill means to you Sep 5, 2009
The U.S. technological and environmental history since 1970 has been successful economically in reducing air pollution. If a climate-change bill is law by 2010 and lays out a road to developing and marketing renewable energy, it is probable that technological innovation and the marketplace actually will make it more economical to produce low-carbon energy and less fossil fuel. (Nogales International, AZ)
Dot Eco LLC Announces Senior Environmentalist to Join Executive Leadership in Effort to Secure and Define the .ECO Top-level Domain Aug 15, 2009
Jim Dufour's unimpeachable integrity and tireless dedication working to protect the environment will help to influence this important moment in environmental history. "Dot Eco will provide a critically-needed source of funding for climate protection initiatives and scientific research. Our hope is that it will also define a forum for trustworthy and concise scientific information for all to see," said Jim Dufour. (PR Newswire)
Martian Meteorite Yields Clues About Planet Aug 11, 2009
11, 2009) NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. See also. (Science Daily)
Old ‘clunker’ may help save planet Aug 7, 2009
Gwen Ottinger is a program researcher in environmental history and policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation s Center for Contemporary History and Policy in Philadelphia. Inside AJC.COM. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Clothes Made This Man, and Vice Versa Jul 13, 2009
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Stuck rover exposes fresh clues on Martian environment Jul 1, 2009
NASA's plucky Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which is still stuck in a patch of soil, has been taking advantage of the situation to learn more about the planet's environmental history. The sand trap, dubbed Troy, has been holding the rover hostage since April, with Spirit's rotating wheels digging more than hub deep into the sand. (Astronomy Now Online)
Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged In Martian Soil Jun 29, 2009
ScienceDaily (June 28, 2009) NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history. See also. (Science Daily)
Ocean ghosts: how the future of our oceans hangs on knowing their detailed past Jun 3, 2009
Establishing environmental history in mainstream marine science will be one of the great enduring legacies of the Census of Marine Life, which has united thousands of world researchers to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life, past, present and future ... As part of that report, the census' History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) project will publish a general environmental history of marine animal populations, an image gallery, a series of maps of... (BBC News -- Science)
Blue Whale Found Singing In New York Waters May 30, 2009
New York State s DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis added, This is a very important moment in the environmental history of New York State. Blue whales were almost hunted to extinction by the middle of the 20th Century, and the fact that now we're finding them migrating not far off our shores is truly remarkable. (Science Daily)
Amazing Size And Abundance Of Past Ocean Life May 25, 2009
Dr. Poiner adds that establishing environmental history in mainstream marine science will be one of the Census' enduring legacies. Scientists involved in the research hail from many disciplines, including palaeontology, archaeology, history, fisheries and ecology. (Science Daily)
Ocean life in olden days: Researchers upend modern notions of 'natural' animal sizes, abundance May 25, 2009
Dr. Poiner adds that establishing environmental history in mainstream marine science will be one of the Census' enduring legacies ... The preservation of data will be ensured through the creation of a World Repository for Marine Environmental History Data ... In 2010, HMAP will publish a general environmental history of marine animal populations, an image gallery, a series of maps of historical exploitations and impacts, and papers that synthesize information on historical declines and... (EurekAlert!)
Rebirth of a river, hope for a region May 20, 2009
It's an entire chapter of economic and environmental history. It's time to reclaim the Hudson where the dominant form of commerce was oyster, sturgeon and shad fisheries. (Albany Times Union)
A New Era for the Natural History Museum May 3, 2009
Under the Sun, an exhibition focusing on Southern Californias environmental history, will open in a third wing in 2012. All of the openings will lead up to the museums centennial in 2013. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Fire Influences Global Warming More Than Previously Thought Apr 29, 2009
The article ties together various threads of knowledge about fire from disparate fields including ecology, global modeling, physics, anthropology, environmental history, medicine and climatology. A more complete understanding of how the Earth works requires recognizing how fire is intertwined with and also a driver of human history and the Earth's history, the authors write. (Science Daily)
Unneighborly behavior: BNSF needs to answer questions about contamination in Whitefish - Sunday, April 19. 2009 Apr 19, 2009
Specifically, they are looking at the company's environmental history elsewhere in the state and it's not entirely reassuring. Numerous BNSF properties contaminated with diesel fuel, chemical solvents and other toxic compounds have landed on the state's list of priority cleanup sites. (Missoulian, MT)
Going greener, even if you don't see the difference Mar 19, 2009
Joel A. Tarr, 74, the Carnegie Mellon University professor with expertise in urban environmental history and an enduring love of his adopted city, began with a slide show: There was a 19th century woman dumping wastewater beside a well, part of the reason Pittsburgh led the country in typhoid fever in the latter half of the 19th century; there was one of those classic photos of what looked like a night-time scene of Downtown, but only newcomers were surprised to hear that the dark vista was... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Brevard Naturally: Prescribed burns lend a hand to Mother Nature Feb 21, 2009
Bill Cronin, in his seminal environmental history of New England, "Changes in the Land," describes how Native Americans used fire to clear fields for agriculture and game hunting long before Columbus reached their shores. Likewise, there is evidence of many prehistoric South American tribes burning rainforest to create small plots of farmable land. (Florida Today)
Review: A Passion for Nature Feb 8, 2009
One of the founders of environmental history, the author of a well-received biography of the explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell and long a student of the landscape and history of the American West in particular, Worster brings superb scholarly credentials to the task. What he lacks is the ability to tell a story. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
