Archive | Green
-
The Oil Spill: What You Can Do to Help
As the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to gush oil into the Gulf, menacing the livelihoods of Gulf Coast residents and slopping beaches with tar balls, rust-colored mousse or dark brown glop, you may be wondering what you can do to help.
Green | News | Other Read more... -
Carmi-based company booms from Gulf oil spill
Jeff Bohleber said he doesn’t mind watching his products burn every night on national news. Bohleber is the chief financial officer of Elastec/American Marine, a Carmi, Ill.-based company that has been providing oil spill equipment to the Gulf of Mexico since the oil leak began April 20.
Green | News | Other Read more... -
Penn State U to announce Climategate findings
Penn State U will release today the results of its follow-up investigation into whether professor Michael Mann acted within university academy integrity regulations while researching climate change.
-
Penn State helps solve bee mystery
Penn State U. researchers are using funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine what is causing a massive drop-off in the honeybee population.
Green | News | Other | Research Read more... -
Student trespasses on beach damaged by oil
With little more than his car, some protective gear and a camera, Jesus Mares, senior ecological restoration major, set out to see for himself the devastation that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused.
-
Western Washington U. works toward climate neutrality
Western Washington U. is on track to become the first climate-neutral university in the state, and will aim to have zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The Board of Trustees voted to accept Western’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) on June 11.
-
Column: Against the wind
In a local radio’s ad for BP, “BP” stands for “Beautifully Pristine.” No, really. And yeah, that’s rich. Even my pal Higgs, who as a professional skeptic believes almost nothing is rich, thinks that’s rich.
-
EPA approves Texas Tech cotton technology for use in Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup
Fibertect™, a nonwoven cotton-carbon material, created by Seshadri Ramkumar, an associate professor of nonwoven materials for the Texas Tech U.
Green | News | Other | Technology Read more... -
Gulf Coast research lab studies oil spill
Scientists at the U. Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory are hard at work studying the effects of the oil spill on the delicate ecosystem of the gulf. According to current estimates by the US Department of Energy, which puts the current flow rate at 1.