Car traffic driving micro-evolution?
It’s hard to think that you can evolve to avoid fatal car crashes, but apparently, you can. Well not you, but other creatures like cliff swallows can. Ecologist Charles Brown at […]
Category Archives: Our Environment
Probably the cutest Kickstarter yet
What good is science if it doesn’t inspire the younger generations? Not much good at all, really, which is why this fourth grade class from North Carolina is positively joy-inducing. […]
This is no Looney Tune
In Warner Bros.’ cartoons, there aren’t really any unhappy endings (unless you consider the Coyote’s Sisyphean pursuit of the Roadrunner particularly tragic. I say nibble on a desert tortoise or […]
How an entrepreneur could help green Chicago
Vince Cushing Jr. has a pretty impressive pedigree when it comes to building things. His grandfather, John Cushing, was a civil engineer, and the namesake of Notre Dame’s Cushing Hall, […]
At least someone might benefit from global warming
Forget about the polar bears and indigenous people who depend on the polar ice cap for fishing, shipping could really benefit from some warming up north. Two researchers at UCLA […]
New Boeing drone releases only water
Boeing’s rotund new drone may be kind of cute, but it represents a big technological advance in unmanned aircraft. The Phantom Eye flew for 66 minutes this week, its second […]
Greening the Shedd
It’s easy enough for we normal folk to buy LED lights, re-seal our windows or use the cold cycle in the wash to save some energy. But how do you […]
How we’re ruining the weather in Cincinnati
We all know how big cities tend to have their own mini-climate. Heat generated by heaps of machinery, asphalt and millions of bodies in one place tends to make cities […]
Coal is not just our problem
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a massive Pixar fan, so you’ll have to forgive this reference…but the latest findings by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) kind of reminds […]
Emerald ash borer killing more than just trees
More than just the architecture and student body changed over the last century at the University of Illinois in Urbana. There was a point where you couldn’t see from one […]
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