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Tree Deaths Double in the Western U.S.

Another effect of warming? That’s the suspicion, but the other problem is that you tree huggers aren’t keeping up with the tree deaths . Apparently sales jobs aren’t where you all work then? Just messing around. Good job planting that tree…lol
A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of [...]

What Happens When Satellites Die?

While reading up on this I tried to find an accurate number as to how many man made satellites are actually orbiting the Earth right now. The numbers vary wildly depending on where you look. I saw one that suggested there were nearly 25,000 in a 1997 study. Both functional and non-functional. Another report from [...]

Antartica Warming at Higher Speed Than Previously Thought

OK…I’m starting to trust a lot of these reports a little bit less every time. I have seen reports that melting has decreased in the North Poles this year, although that doesn’t mean it is anything more than an anomaly. Now this year we have probably the worst winter we have had in a decade, [...]

Marine Algae Making a Comeback in Biofuel Research

During the oil crisis of the 1970’s the U.S. government provided funding for research evaluating the prospects of new fuel sources derived from terrestrial plants such as corn and soybeans, as well as algae. When prices dropped, and the uproar started to die down, so did the funding for such research.
Now that we are all [...]

Milky Way Much More Massive Than Previously Thought

When someone tells me that they were off by maybe 5-10% I can sort of understand when it comes to space. Apparently we were off by a hell of a lot more. Like 50% off.
Astronomers arrived at the new mass by using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope [...]