Oxygen-deprived areas in the world’s oceans usually found in deeper water are moving up to offshore areas and threatening coastal marine ecosystems by spurring the die-off of some species and overpopulation of others
By Michael Tennesen | Scientific American | February 23, 2010
A plague of oxygen-deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up over [...]
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Waiting to Inhale: Deep-Ocean Low-Oxygen Zones Spreading to Shallower Coastal Waters
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The Great Grocery Smackdown
Will Walmart, not Whole Foods, save the small farm and make America healthy?
by Corby Kummer | Atlantic Monthly | March 2010
BUY MY FOOD at Walmart? No thanks. Until recently, I had been to exactly one Walmart in my life, at the insistence of a friend I was visiting in Natchez, Mississippi, about 10 years ago. [...]
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New wine in old bottles
A European idea is catching on in Washington’s wine country: reusable bottles. It saves money and is kind to the environment.
By Harris Meyer | Crosscut.com | February 18, 2010
Wine drinkers in many Pacific Northwest towns get frustrated that there’s no place to recycle the heavy glass bottles that hold their beloved vino. In Europe, people go [...]
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Slow Trip Across Sea Aids Profit and Environment
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | February 16, 2010
It took more than a month for the container ship Ebba Maersk to steam from Germany to Guangdong, China, where it unloaded cargo on a recent Friday — a week longer than it did two years ago.
But for the owner, the Danish shipping giant [...]
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Fog Decline Threatens California’s Towering Redwoods
By Tia Ghose | Wired Science | February 15, 2010
The California coast has seen fewer foggy days in the last century, threatening the health of the region’s majestic redwood trees.
Over the last century, new research suggests the average daily fog has decreased more than three hours, causing the coast redwoods to lose more water [...]
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Slumburbia
By Timothy Egan | The New York Times | February 12, 2010
LATHROP, Calif. — Drive along foreclosure alley, through new planned communities that look like tile-roofed versions of a 21st century ghost town, and you see what happens when people gamble with houses instead of casino chips.
Dirty flags advertise rock-bottom discounts on empty starter mansions. [...]
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Cisco’s Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch
By Greg Lindsay | FAST COMPANY | February 1, 2010
The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis — or just making money?
Stan Gale is exultant. The chairman [...]
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Consumers really can affect global warming — particularly if they live in the US
by Robert McClure in Dateline Earth/InvestigateWEST | February 8, 2010
I’ve always been just a hair skeptical about all those admonitions to consumers to save the world — you know, the “Live simply, that others may simply live”-type instructions. They felt a little too much like guilt-tripping to me, with perhaps not enough corresponding actual environmental [...]
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Forgive me, Planet, for I have flown. Frequently.
Carbon offsets reflect the tendency of environmentalism to act like a new religion. Remember European history about the buying and selling of indulgences? But there can be good sense in donating to atone for our offenses against the environment.
By Anthony B. Robinson | Crosscut.com | February 5, 2010
The other day I, half-joking, told a Canadian [...]
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A Seattle chef proves that traditional sushi and healthy oceans go hand-in-chopstick
by DARBY MINOW SMITH | grist | January 31, 2010
Growing up in small-town Montana, two things just made no sense: vegetarians and sushi. Why eat tofu, or raw fish, when you could just as easily have a big juicy steak? Coming from generations of cattle rancher stock, I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s ringing defense of [...]