Science: Remote Cloud Ships to Combat Global Warming

John Latham, a cloud physicist, is currently working on a project that would hopefully increase the reflectivity of clouds (i.e albedo effect) and therefore reflect solar radiation of the sun.

Check out this clip from Daily Planet.

Daily Planet: Remote Cloud Ships

Science: Excellent Source for Environmental Information

A great source of articles on the environment and environmental friendly choices. For example one of his articles compares using paper cups vs ceramic mugs but you'll have to read it to find out the answer. It is surprising once you start reading how often we think we are making environmentally friendly choices but aren't.

Slate: The Green Lantern

Science: Have Australian cane toads finally met their match?

You have seen them on the Simpsons and they are arguably the most famous of the alien species. This article reports on a possible predator, the meat ant, that may be able to control the famous Cane toad. Follow the link below to read more.

Have Australian cane toads finally met their match?

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Buying Green: 9 Environmentally Inventive Products: Scientific American Slideshows

Buying Green: 9 Environmentally Inventive Products: Scientific American Slideshows

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Science: Limited Water and Air

This is an image found on BoingBoing.com. The two spheres superimposed on the earth images are comparisons of water quantity (on left) and air quantity (on right) with the earth itself. The comparison is made to deomstrate the limited amount of air and water our planet actually has to sustain life.

To read more vist the following link.
All the water and air on earth gathered into spheres - BoingBoing.com

Science: Evidence of Global Warming

A chunk of ice 414 square km big (larger than the city of Montreal) broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf. This is an ice shelf that floats a top the ocean water in the Antarctic. With warmer ocean temperatures this chunk of ice took only 10 days to fracture off the Antarctic Peninsula.





Additional Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080325120714.htm
http://nsidc.org/news/press/20080325_Wilkins.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uoca-ais032508.php