Archive for the ‘Environmental Science’ Category

Climate Change - We Barely Escaped Once Before

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Many of us have heard about the "Mitochondrial Eve," our earliest ancestor who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. A Stanford University study, reported on today at CNN, has concluded that our species became precariously close to extinction about 60,000 years ago. Very interesting. Considering that we have almost ...

Nuclear Power in our Children’s Generation

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I read an article recently that addressed the question, "Is nuclear power going to make a comeback in the 21st century, and if so, will it make any real impact on global warming?" Of course these questions bring forth many other questions but I couldn't help but take away my ...