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March 24 was World Tuberculosis Day, so Worldfocus decided to take a deeper look at a disease that has long been a deadly threat. Tonight's Worldfocus special edition includes a piece by Debra Daugherty about how one South African community has combated the disease. Read more about this public health campaign in Cape T...
Fill in the blank with the most logical response. A constructivist teacher believes in the importance of considering a childs naïve A person never really knows the world as it is. Each person constructs beliefs about what is real. These beliefs are known as conceptions What a person already believes filers out or chang...
"In case one desires to locate north and has no compass, a watch may be used. Point the hour hand to the sun. In the morning, halfway between the outside end of the hour hand and noon is due south; in the afternoon, one must reckon halfway backward; for instance, at 8 A.M., point the hour hand to the sun and find the p...
WWF's work in Peru In 1997, WWF established a comprehensive country conservation programme. Since then, the WWF Peru Programme Office (PPO) has gone on to achieve a number of conservation goals. Today, WWF concentrates its efforts primarily in 6 of Peru's 14 priority ecoregions: * Southwestern Amazon Moist Forests * Am...
Study: Coffee may help ward off oral cancers (ABC) -- If you’re a heavy coffee drinker, all that extra “joe” may be doing more than just keeping you awake. A study published online in the American Journal of Epidemiology says it may also be keeping you safe from cancers of the mouth and throat. Researchers examined cof...
WebMD Medical News Laura J. Martin, MD Nov. 21, 2011 -- Texting among U.S. children is increasing in popularity, and as a result, more kids may be harassed or bullied via text messages, a new study finds. The study included 1,588 young people aged 10 to 15 who answered questions online in 2006, 2007, and 2008 as part o...
Every now and then you read a book that richly echoes your own experience. The book that did that for me in 2010 was Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, which recounts how more than 5.5 million black Americans abandoned the South in the half-century between World Wa...
Blueberries are often touted for their nutritional benefits. Some of those benefits are well known, while others are more obscure. ? Blueberries have the highest antioxidant capacity of all fresh fruit. Anti-oxidants are responsible for neutralizing free radicals in the body, which can affect aging and contraction of d...
Lunar surface still active: study Active Moon A new study indicates the Moon may not be as geologically dead as previously thought, showing signs that it is simultaneously stretching and shrinking. New high-resolution images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show parts of the Moon's surface are being pulled apa...
What is Mental Health? We all have mental health. Many people experience stress from the normal ups and downs of life and for some people these symptoms are more severe. When conditions are more severe, they are referred to as mental illness and include depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and others which may require tr...
August 22 marked the tenth anniversary of welfare reform. The 1996 legislation made radical changes to the process of receiving unearned government cash. The results have been massive reductions in child poverty, increases in employment, and a subsequent increase in the freedom of the poor from government control. In t...
Key Literacy Component: Text Comprehension Text comprehension allows readers to extract or construct meaning from the written word. Students who misread words or misinterpret their meanings are at a disadvantage. Proper instruction can boost students’ skills in this key area. In this article: Comprehension is the proce...
Pros and cons about improvements to locks and dams Some in Congress; much of the general public outside the Mississippi River basin, and even some university ecologists and other professors aren’t convinced it is a wise idea to invest heavily in upgrading the locks and dams system of the Mississippi River. Earlier this...
We're not the only ones who have emotions By Marc Bekoff - April 2007 As a scientist who's studied animal emotions for more than 30 years, I consider myself very fortunate. I love what I do. I love learning about animals, and I love sharing what my colleagues and I discover with others. Whenever I observe or work with ...
Water Saving Tips: For Residential Water Use, Indoors and Out Click here to download a graphically designed PDF of the following residential water saving tips. Replace toilets installed before 1994 (1992 in TX & CA) with high-efficiency toilets (HETs). - Replacing an older toilet that uses 3.5 gallons per flush (gpf) w...
The Western Diamond Back Rattle Snake The western diamond back rattle snake lives in the badlands and semi desert areas of North America, where its tough skin prevents it fromlosing too much moisture. It conserves water by excreting thick paste urine. It adjusts its daily behavior to regulate body heat, alternately bas...
International Business Times Natural climatic changes have led to the total ecosystem collapse of coral reefs, suggest a new report. According to a study by the Florida Institute of Technology, climate shifts have stalled the reef growth in the eastern Pacific for 2,500 years. The Daily Telegraph Pacific to shut down t...
The Moon's orbit periodically grows rounder and then more oval; it is never a perfect circle. The point at which it is nearest Earth each month is called its perigee (this varies throughout the year). The point at which the Moon is farthest from Earth each month is called its apogee (this varies throughout the year as ...
Men's Clothing from 1700 Many men in the early 1700's did not own more than about 2-4 outfits. Their clothing would usually be made of wool or linen and would all be hand sewn, either by a woman they knew or if they lived in or near a city and had some money, by a tailor. Standards of cleanliness were very different fr...
- Historic Sites Native Americans First View Whites From The Shore New York Indians Discover Dutchmen Spring 2009 | Volume 59, Issue 1 In hindsight, these first encounters were asymmetrically momentous events, presaging catastrophic consequences for the native peoples of North America. Europeans wrote accounts of these...
Aquatic Invasive Species: Lessons from Cancer Research The medical community’s successes in fighting cancer offer a model for preventing the spread of harmful invasive species Aquatic invasive species are disrupting ecosystems with increasing frequency. Successful control of these invasions has been rare: Biologists an...
We are remembered by our exaggerations. So at a recent reunion of my former research-group members, several recalled my saying "When you see a standard deviation in an x-ray crystal structure, multiply it by pi [π, 3.141...], or if the structure is done by friends, by e [2.718...]." I was talking about structures of mo...
From Ancestry.com Wiki | Institution and Organization Records This article is part of a series. |Civilian Conservation Corps| |Coroner or Medical Examiner Records| |Prisons and Penitentiary Records| This article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, ...
Check availability of bunnies on the Adoption Chart Rabbits are extremely hardy and occasionally delicate. Years may go by without infirmity, and one day that energetic ball of fur becomes a limp puddle of depressed bunnyhood. Oh, no! An interesting species (meant by nature to be low on the food chain) can be a mass of...
[antlr-interest] What do . (period) and Tokens mean in tree grammars? Harald M. Müller harald_m_mueller at gmx.de Sat Dec 29 14:16:13 PST 2007 Sorry that I ask - but I did not find it on the Wiki and not in the ANTLR book: What do . and Tokens mean in tree grammars? AFAIK, . means "any complete subtree." - although thi...
Our increasing dependence on machines for everyday activities has made them indispensable. Therefore many-a- times, if not always, we all tend to go overboard with their usage. But we forget that everything comes at a cost and for this luxury we all have to pay electric bill. If facts are to be believed then every mont...
Nature offers ample of opportunities to capture the patterns. Patterns contribute to a composition aesthetically. Human beings aren’t usually accustomed to these patterns and arrangements in their day-to-day lives; and when these arrangements are presented graphically with blend of colors, shades, tones and heightened ...
Comet ISON will light up the sky This interplanetary visitor may be the brightest comet ever. September 25, 2012 About a year from now, Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) probably will become the brightest comet anyone alive has ever seen. How bright it could get is currently the subject of vigorous discussion among planetary scie...
When the scientists combined the light from two 8-meters telescopes with MIDI, they could simulate the resolving power of a telescope with a diameter of about 100 meters. These observations gave a "visibility function," which measures how resolved a source is: A visibility of 1 happens when a source is completely unres...
"Keep an open mind – but not so open that your brain falls out" -unknown "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." -- Christopher Hitchens What is a logical fallacy? All arguments have the same basic structure: A ...
Severe ozone air pollution in the Persian Gulf region 1Energy, Environment and Water Research Centre, The Cyprus Institute, 20 Kavafi Street, 1645 Nicosia, Cyprus 2Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Becherweg 27, 55128 Mainz, Germany 3Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS – Laboratoire d'Aérologie, 14 Avenue E. Belin, 3140...
The tragedy of the missing at Fromelles resonates once more 90 years after the battle. In June 2008 a further search for bodies began. It was initiated by a Melbourne school-teacher, Lambis Englezos. He was one in a group who became increasingly convinced that there were Australian and British bodies that had been buri...
Lapta - A Russian game that has been played since the 14th century. Lapta is an old Russian folk game with a ball and a bat. Mentions of lapta have been found in old manuscripts, and balls and bats were found in the 14th-century layers during excavations in Novgorod. The game was played outside on a field the size of 2...
It's a subject no one wants to think about, but for each of us, our lives must come to an end. As medical progress prolongs our lives, the end can linger, draining patients and loved ones alike. So, more and more people are turning to hospice care. Hospice is not just for the elderly or cancer patients. Children receiv...
Some Prehistoric Sites in BC The Glenrose Cannery Site >>>---->The Glenrose Site, Fraser River, British Columbia Source: The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast, R.G. Matson and Gary Coupland, Academic Press, San Diego, 1995. The Glenrose Site is situated along the Fraser River, British Columbia, less than 10 miles from ...
Man-made pollution is helping to push the tropics northwards, research suggests. The effect could impact weather and climate, making sub-tropical regions drier and creating wetter and stormier conditions further north. Scientists already knew that the tropics have been widening by around 0.7 degrees of latitude per dec...
*Use fresh fruits in a variety of shapes and colors that are in season, such as watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, strawberries, kiwi fruit, etc. Pumpkin-carving tools work really well for carving watermelon. If you don’t have any, use a small sharp paring knife. Carving a melon bowl is similar to carving a p...
BGCI > Plant search Locate rare and threatened plant species in cultivation around the world using our unique PlantSearch database. This database is compiled from lists of living collections submitted to BGCI by the world's botanic gardens. The database presently includes over 1 million records. Information on threat s...
Major new research programme to halt relentless rise in UK heart failure Regenerative medicine could make recovery as simple as getting over a broken leg. The burden of debilitating heart failure has risen relentlessly since the Sixties, inspiring our major new research programme to find a cure. The condition, which is...
The Dividing Line Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Corinthians 1.10 (Spoke 2, Cycle 3) The name of the second letter, Bet (ב...
Joseph Wang, director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, led a team effort that successfully merged work in the fields of biosensors, electronics, and nanotechnology to fashion nanocrystals that can act as “DNA biosensors?by electronically recognizing subtle mutations in ...
BLAISE DES BERGÈRES DE RIGAUVILLE, RAYMOND (he sometimes signed des Bergères), captain, commandant of Forts Niagara, Frontenac, and Chambly, town major of Trois-Rivières; b. 1655 in the diocese of Saint-Pierre at Orléans (department of Loiret), son of Jean Blaise Des Bergères and Marie Boucher; d. 21 July 1711 at Montr...
Virtually day and night the British Library was on hand to provide articles to the Palm Beach Post during an outbreak of anthrax in Florida’s Palm Beach, some dating back to the 1940s. When deadly anthrax germs were sent to the offices of the National Enquirer in Florida’s Palm Beach in October 2001, there was an urgen...
Advocating for children's rights is one of Austria's fundamental priorities in terms of human rights Vice-Chancellor Spindelegger on the International Children's Day Vienna, 20 November 2012 – "On 20th of November we celebrate the adoption of the 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child which has been ratified by nea...
What is the Keep? The Keep, the site of Bermuda Maritime Museum, was the citadel or great fortress of the Dockyard defences. It is a six-acre fort, with seven irregular bastions, named ‘A’ to ‘G’, designed to protect the Dockyard from enemy attack. The lower grounds of the Keep contain large Sea Service stores, which i...
This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exe...
What Is SEO? Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of getting your website to appear in good positions in the search engine results pages (SERPs). It may sound easy, but there are many different techniques involved and the search engines are always searching for ways to improve their results, which means you ...
Berthold Goldschmidt was a successful and award-winning composer in the 1920s, who was described as “one of the great hopes of German music.” But, being a Jewish composer, the Nazi regime subsequently banned his music, and he was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1935. He emigrated to London, where he worked for the BBC a...
|Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) Mary, Queen of Scots is an enigma, to say the least. Her guilt or innocence in the murder of her husband has been debated for centuries. As many historians point out, every argument in favor of her innocence can be countered by one against. Most of the calumnies heaped against her in h...
Simply begin typing or use the editing tools above to add to this article. Once you are finished and click submit, your modifications will be sent to our editors for review. ...Conures are found from Mexico to Argentina. Several are familiar caged birds; though handsome, they tend to be bad-tempered, have unpleasant ca...
Simply begin typing or use the editing tools above to add to this article. Once you are finished and click submit, your modifications will be sent to our editors for review. Development of the keyboard ...the organ’s basic principles of operation remain substantially unchanged from when they were discovered more than 2...
Song of the World Simply begin typing or use the editing tools above to add to this article. Once you are finished and click submit, your modifications will be sent to our editors for review. discussed in biography ...in the late 1920s with a series of regionalist, anti-intellectual novels about the nobility of simple ...
Most seats in sub-Saharan Africa are low stools with round or rectangular tops, carved from a single block of wood. As early as the sixteenth century, Portuguese traders and explorers introduced chairs with backs, leather seats, and decorative brass tacks, giving them as presents to chiefs, who used them as thrones. Ch...
Berkeley Arts & Letters: Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian GARRY WILLS on BOMB POWER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills examines how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a n...
This series provides daily lesson plans that focus on phonics principles and understanding patterns and generalizations rather than memorizing word lists. Lessons are divided into units and are taught in a 5-day sequence in each grade. Lessons include a Bible verse activity and a reinforcement page with activities desi...
Book Description: This volume is a unique contribution to Latin American studies because it underscores the essential role that women have played in the arenas of modern and contemporary art. [This book] provides valuable and much-needed assistance to the researcher. (From the foreword by Elizabeth Ferrer) With more th...
The concept of paying it forward, performing random acts of kindness for the simple sake of doing so, has been with us for some time. But the idea of seeking out 25 opportunities to make the lives of others just a little bit better is one worth pursuing in 2013. Provincetown resident Ellen Rousseau decided to take the ...
Questions and Answers about Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever View PDF [PDF - 1 MB] What is Ebola hemorrhagic fever? Electron micrograph of Ebola virus Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its ...
What is appendicitis? Published: August 27, 2010 Appendicitis is the inflammation or swelling of the appendix, a small pouch located in the abdominal region and attached to the beginning of the large intestine (also known as the colon). The purpose of the appendix is unclear. It has previously been suggested that it wa...
Imagine standing on a street corner in Manhattan, in need of a taxi to take you from Union Square up to Columbia University. You punch your destination into an app on your phone, which tells you the cab should be there in 30 seconds. A car pulls up as promised, and you get in and relax on your way uptown, just as with ...
First, I believe the current thinking among cosmologists is that the universe has existed in its present form for between 13 and 14 billion years. Second, “forever” is another way of talking about an infinite time period, and that’s silly. Third, just because there differences in energy levels, that’s not a motivation ...
By John E. Wilson Most popular parametric 3D solid modelers are great for creating models that can be readily modified to meet changing design criteria, but they are not as good at constructing the freeform shapes commonly found on consumer products and automobile bodies. Product designers often use other tools to fill...
To use all functions of this page, please activate cookies in your browser. With an accout for my.chemeurope.com you can always see everything at a glance – and you can configure your own website and individual newsletter. - My watch list - My saved searches - My saved topics - My newsletter Syenites are usually peralk...
Choosing An Eye Doctor by Patricia S. Lemer, M.Ed., NCC Executive Director, Developmental Delay Resources ...Pediatric Developmental Optometrist or Pediatric Ophthalmologist? A parent recently asked why I recommend that her child be examined by a pediatric optometrist rather than a pediatric ophthalmologist. The answer...
Congratulations, You're Pregnant! Let the decision-making begin. Choosing a health care provider to care for you and your baby during your pregnancy is one of the biggest decisions you'll make. In the United States, women's choices once were limited to an obstetrician or a knowledgeable family doctor. But in recent yea...
September 4, 2012 Contact: John Ascenzi, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia at 267-426-6055 or email@example.com Researchers have discovered two gene variants that raise the risk of the pediatric cancer neuroblastoma. Using automated technology to perform genome-wide association studies on DNA from thousands of subjec...
Stroke Fact Sheet CIRM funds many projects that are investigating the basic biology of neuronal diseases. These more basic projects could lead to therapies in a wide range of diseases effecting the nervous sytem, including stroke. Additional CIRM-funded research focuses specifically on developing new therapies for the ...
Oral treatments for fungal infections of the skin of the foot. About 15% of the world population have fungal infections of the feet (tinea pedis or athlete's foot). There are many clinical presentations of tinea pedis, and most commonly, tinea pedis is seen between the toes (interdigital) and on the soles, heels, and s...
A hailstone begins as a frozen raindrop or ice crystal. Strong updrafts of warm air and downdrafts of cool air move the frozen particle up and down through different levels of the storm cloud. The hailstone encounters different forms of moisture as it moves, and layers of frozen ice particles accumulate on its surface....
It's 3 p.m. You're checked into the hospital for a routine surgery, scheduled to begin in 15 minutes. This is the first operation you've had. Lying on a small gurney, covered only by a thin patient gown, you begin to shiver. Your heart pounds. Four words race through your head: "Am I gonna die?" Then you meet the opera...
How has the sea ice that surrounds Antarctica varied over the period for which there exist comprehensive satellite data? In what follows, we review what has been learned about the subject -- in the order in which it was learned -- starting with the very first year of the current millennium. Noting that "Antarctic sea i...
Under what circumstances might you use the yield method of the Thread class A. To call from the currently running thread to allow another thread of the same priority to run B. To call on a waiting thread to allow it to run C. To allow a thread of higher priority to run D. To call from the currently running thread with ...
Get a Grip on your Emotions Techniques to combat negative thoughts can make you a happier person by changing the biology of the brain, researchers say. When Thomas Paine said, “These are the times that try men's souls" he wasn't talking about the '90s. But he could have been. With corporations playing hardball and fami...
The first edition refers to a book's first printing run. For some blockbuster titles, this can be as many as 50,000 copies or more. But for older books, or books originally published by small imprints, the first run may have been as few as 100 copies. For books that have subsequently become desirable or prized for thei...
written by Jacob Moldenhauer, Keenan Stone, Zeke Shuler, and Larry Engelhardt Supernovae Type Ia are used as standard candles to directly probe the expansion rate of the universe. The discovery of the cosmic acceleration in 1998 by two independent teams was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Recently, Gamma-Ray B...
Meat and Dairy Illustrate Resource Limits: EWG Report Even as co-ops and other local food providers promote meat and dairy from pastured livestock, these advocates are confronted with drawbacks to a diet centered on those resource-intensive foods. “Meat-Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health,” an Environmental Work...
Rena Oil Spill: A Brief History On October 5, 2011, an oil spill began off the coast of New Zealand that would become what many describe as the country's worst maritime environmental disaster. When the MV Rena tanker (owned by Greek shipping company Costamare Inc.) ran aground on Astrolabe Reef 12 miles off the coast o...
Activity 19.1.3 – Discovering family similarities Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, created the first version of the Periodic Table of the Elements (figure 19.3) in 1869. When he ordered the elements according to increasing atomic weight in columns so that rows contained analogous elements, he saw patterns that all...
Recent upgrades to Boulder's wastewater treatment plant may have dramatically reduced the amount of chemicals in Boulder Creek that cause male fish to develop female characteristics, according to scientists at the University of Colorado. Researchers first discovered a problem in the fish living below the wastewater tre...
Peeling of fingertips can be more than an unsightly annoyance. This cracking and splitting of the skin can actually cause pain. If untreated, this condition can lead to an infection. What are the main causes of this problem? The condition is caused by dry skin. This dryness can result from a number of things such as be...
Researchers Turn Fermented Biomass Into Gasoline With Palladium Catalysis November 9, 2012 12:45 PM comment(s) - last by The process was inspired by an explosives making method What can't palladium do? Named after the mythological statue erected by Greek goddess Athena in honor of Pallas, the daughter of her cousin who...
Since 1970, per capita milk consumption has been in the 20s. It started out in the upper 20s ― 29.8 gallons of per capita fluid milk sales in 1970, to be exact ― and has fallen steadily ever since. Now, it’s precariously close to falling out of the 20s and into the teens. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
This section of the Dairy Science and Food Technology website provides an outline of how the commercial 'cheese yield problem' outlined earlier might be approached and how yield and cheese component retention can be analysed and presented. This is achieved using a unique on-line calculator that is shown in the cheese y...
New NFPA Electrical Safety Rules Mean Changes for Data Centers Wally Vahlstrom brings more than 40 years of electrical engineering experience to his position as the director of technical services for Emerson Network Power’s Electrical Reliability Services group, where he is responsible for failure investigation work, c...
District Judges undertake most of the civil work of the courts, and fall into two catagories: those that sit in the County Courts (and were previously known as County Court Registrars), and those that sit in the Magistrates' Courts (and were previously known as Stipendiary Magistrates). The senior District Judge is als...
|The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from many different writing systems. A registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.| The main page, the face that Wikipedia puts out to the world, is a good starting place for browsing and procrastination. I went to that main page at 1 am on Tuesday the 24th of Augu...
Definitions for acanthosis nigricans acanthosis nigricans, keratosis nigricans(noun) a skin disease characterized by dark wartlike patches in the body folds; can be benign or malignant U.S. National Library of Medicine A circumscribed melanosis consisting of a brown-pigmented, velvety verrucosity or fine papillomatosis...
Definitions for fair catch Random House Webster's College Dictionary a catch of a kicked football made after the receiving team signals that it will not attempt to advance the ball. Origin of fair catch: (American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so...
|Dryden Home > Collections > Photo Home > XV-15 Tilt Rotor| The two Bell XV-15 Tiltrotor aircraft were involved in limited research at the Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in 1980 and 1981. The XV-15 combines standard aircraft cruise flight with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and short takeoff and landing (ST...
The US Anti Doping Agency on October 10 made public hundreds of pages of documents of evidence including financial payments, emails, scientific data and laboratory test results that further prove the use, possession and distribution of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) by Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service team...
Military & Wars Created by ihistory on Jan 10, 2009 Last updated: 02/21/09 at 02:56 PM World War II has no followers yet. Be the first one to follow. The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany aft...
Behavior: Specific attitudes and actions of this child at home and/or at school. - Isn't learning. - Falls farther behind in class work every day. - Displays varying degrees of boredom and indifference. These are the first signs of nonparticipation. - Fails to bring materials to class or to turn in assignments; becomes...
This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows different features that form in the regolith covering Vesta’s surface. Regolith is the layer of loose, small sized material which often covers the bedrock of planets. Sinuous features in the top of the image are probably due to slumping of this regolith on a slope, similar to t...
|Uploaded:||September 26, 2008| |Updated:||June 20, 2010| In this tutorial I will be showing you how to draw a spotted salamander which is another amphibian that I will add to the list of tutorials. The spotted salamander is probably one of the biggest of its breed and one of the hardest to spot. These slimy looking sl...
Some lizards could be mistaken for plastic statues: brilliantly colored, attractive to look at, but with the personality of, well, a plastic statue. Not so the Bearded Dragon, a mid-size lizard, comprised of seven species, all native to arid regions of Australia. The rich, earth-tone coloration of the Bearded Dragon is...
The Geologic Timescale Part of the Geology For Dummies Cheat Sheet Geologists organize the 4.6 billion years of earth's history into sections based on important changes seen in the geologic record. The largest intervals are eons, with each eon composed of many millions of years. Within the eons are eras, which begin an...
DENVER – Recent earthquakes in Colorado and elsewhere were induced by a drilling procedure to dispose of wastewater, federal geologists planned to argue in a report announced Wednesday. The Denver Post reported Tuesday that Colorado drilling regulators said more study is needed on the link between drilling waste dispos...
Pollution of earth and water is driving indigenous peoples from their homelands By Miriam Raftery April 27, 2013 (San Diego)--Around the world, including here in the U.S., native people are losing lands they have occupied for countless generations. The earth and water that sustained life in their communities is being d...
Spend or save? It's the age-old question facing anyone with a checkbook and a piggy bank. Now, policymakers are applying the same concept to the public’s consumption of power. While states continue to pursue and promote greater use of renewable power to help address global climate change and energy shortages, many also...
The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has launched a new online calculator to help architects, designers, and builders achieve carbon emission reduction goals for new construction and retrofit residential and commercial projects. Called Green Footstep, the free carbon calculator allows designers to address multiple source...