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The major headline of the first time creation of magnetic soap is that it could have a major impact on environmental cleanups such as oil spills. It could work for many other applications as well such as scientific experiments to industrial settings. LEt’s not get a head of ourselves though. What exactly is magnetic soap? [...]

Filed under: Environment, Oceans and Marine Life, Science by JMH
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The gray whales are considered a conservation success in that back in the 1930s populations were said to be under 1,000. Today their numbers are closer to 22,000. It is believed that pre-whaling populations were likely to be four times this number. Just looking at what I said above there are probably a few questions [...]

Filed under: Animals, Environment, Global Warming, Oceans and Marine Life by JMH
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Seeing the news that The Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland has stopped spewing ash I figured I would look for videos on the event. The eruption happened on Wednesday, and ash rocketed as high as 12 miles into the sky. There are quite a few videos out there on the event, though the ash above the [...]

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If you have never heard of this, cows emit methane gas when they burp, or umm…pass gas. Cattle, sheep and other ruminant livestock produce large amounts of methane, which is about 20 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. One cow can produce about 1.5 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year. In [...]

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Scientist have seen about 80 dolphins die since January in the U.S. Gulf Coast. They are trying to figure out if they were more likely to have died from last year’s oil spill or a winter cold snap. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared “an unusual mortality event” last week. A large number of [...]

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You are obviously thinking, “what the hell is this guy talking about Army of Bees?” nonsense. Well…it’s kind of a joke that I read about a lot during the show of Lost. If you ever watched Lost you may remember when Jack Sheppard went up to Anna Lucia and asked her if she could help [...]

Filed under: Animals, Environment by JMH
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A recent poll taken in Britain shows that nearly 50% of Briton believe in aliens and almost 80 percent say cancer is the disease which most needs a vaccine. Aliens. 50% of people believe in ALIENS. Britain’s Royal Society found that 66 percent of respondents to a survey to mark its 350th anniversary said that [...]

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First off, let’s just all take a collective “ewwwwww!” before we read about this. Since the mind-19th century the concerns about using human waste and sewage as a source of phosphorus was combated with mining phosphate. A report by the UK organic body suggests that the supply of phosphorus from mined phosphate rock could peak [...]

Filed under: Biology, Environment by JMH
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You damn global warming freaks are going to kill us all! A widely accepted strategy to combating global warming is to add iron to the ocean waters. Unfortunately, it appears now that it actually results in promoting toxic blooms in the ocean. DUN DUN DUN! Louisiana State University’s Sibel Bargu, along with her former graduate [...]

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Combating climate change seems to be one of the leading stories on the news every night now. It gives dark under eye circles to many hippies these days. The Green Movement has been incorporated so much that it may end up being one of the best money makers in business over the next 50 years. [...]

Filed under: Environment, Global Warming by JMH
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