According to the National Academy of Sciences, 70% of all marine life is somehow dependent on sea grass beds for their existence. They provide a habitat and food for various forms of endangered marine life and absorb large quantities of carbon dioxide. Sea grass beds reduce the wave energy that reaches coastlines, increases water quality [...]
YEP Comments
The Youth Earth Plan, version 0.5, is now available at http://www.ourtask.org/getinvolved/pdfs/yep.pdf, and we welcome comments on it. Note that each line of the draft YEP has a number in the left margin. If you have a general comment on the YEP, you need not specify line numbers. If you have a comment on a specific [...]
How to deal with Polar Bears
It’s an interesting situation now that the US has named polar bears as a “Threatened” Species. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said that “the loss of Arctic sea ice in a warming climate could drive them to the brink of extinction in less than four decades”. Kempthorne goes on to say that in saving the polar [...]
