There is a viral meme in the blogosphere and mass media suggesting that a single dog has the same impact as an SUV. We blogged about it here. Well, this advice and comparison turns out to have been based on some really dodgy calculations and is officially debunked. Hopefully nobody took our [...]
Paul Gilding (activist, CEO, environmentalist and journalist) recently sent me this article:
Amidst the noise of the day-to-day debates, we have lost sight of the simple logic of the advice coming from the world’s top climate scientists. Despite the uncertainties in the details, the science carries [...]
This is a little late in posting, but here is a video from a few weeks ago on Australia’s Channel 7 national news interviewing Alicia Crawley, a PhD student from my lab on the impacts of CO2 and ocean acidification on photosynthesis in corals. In a nutshell, Alicia’s research indicates that under higher [...]
In the second part of a series of videos and lectures on coral reefs and climate change (Online Reefs) is Dr Roberto Iglesias Prieto. Roberto is a lead research scientist at the Unidad Academia Puerto Morelos in Mexico, who has a long and distinguished career investigating the symbiont responses to coral stress. Roberto [...]
A recent study done by the University of Oregon and the University of Hawaii shows that majority of people visiting the coral reefs in Hawaii deeply care about their protection. This might not be surprising due to the large amount of money that tourism brings to the economy of Hawaii, and with over 80% [...]
See that seemingly innocuous little crack in the desert of Ethiopia in the picture above? Apparently the ~55km long rift (which first appeared in 2005) is the birthplace of a new ocean. What’s even more impressive is that the rift tore open across it’s entire length in a manner of days, not geological timescales [...]
Did you know that the brain of an adult bottlenose dolphin is about 25% heavier than the average human adult’s brain? This article on why dolphins are ‘deep thinkers’ and how they manage to train their trainers is well worth reading:
At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has [...]
Here’s some sage advice from the Courier Mail, Brisbane’s very own tabloid newspaper:
THEY’RE faithful, friendly and furry – but under their harmless, fluffy exteriors, dogs and cats, the world’s most popular house pets, use up more energy resources in a year than driving a car, a new book says.
In their book Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, New Zealand-based architects Robert and Brenda Vale say keeping a medium-sized dog has the same ecological impact as driving 10,000km a year in a 4.6 litre Land Cruiser.
As the World continues to squabble about who might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and people in the developed world become increasingly duped into believing media moguls over scientists, yet another assessment of the World in 2050 paints a harsh picture. Researchers from Canada, the UK and the US have published research in Global Change Biology [...]
There could not be a clearer message to the American Senate regarding climate change than the one below from the AAAS. I guess we can only hope that the US Senate trust the leading scienctific organisation in their country and respond to this planetary emergency.
October 21, 2009
American Association for the [...]
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