Blog Profile / Blue Marble
| URL : | http://motherjones.com/blue-marble | |
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| Filed Under: | Issues & Causes / Environmentalism | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1309 | |
| Posts / Week: | 11.1 | |
| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Invention of the Day: A Bladeless Windmill
This story first appeared on the Atlantic Cities website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It may look like a giant airplane window strung with Venetian blinds, but this structure, designed by Dutch architecture...Show More Summary
Why Won't Exxon Come Clean on the Tar Sands Spill Details?
An ExxonMobil pipeline broke on Friday evening, dumping thousands of gallons of tar sands oil in Mayflower, Arkansas. The Pegasus pipeline starts in Illinois and carries 95,000-barrels of oil per day from Alberta's tar sands to refineries...Show More Summary
EPA to Study Flame Retardant Chemicals. Finally.
The EPA announced this week that it will study the health and environmental risks of 23 chemicals, with an emphasis on chemical flame retardants that are found in many common products. Even though they were phased out of baby clothes...Show More Summary
How Many Cinnabons is 2,000 Calories? How Many Almonds?
Here's one for the picky eaters in the crowd: The FDA recommends consuming 2,000 calories a day. You probably eat a variety of different foods to get to that total. But what if you were to eat only one? How much would you need to eat of a given food to get to 2,000? Buzzfeed has the answer: HT Grist.
82 Percent of Americans Think We Should Do More To Prepare for Climate Change
Eighty-two percent of Americans think that we should be doing more to prepare for sea level rise and extreme weather caused by global warming, according to new survey data released by researchers from Stanford University on Thursday....Show More Summary
Train Derailment Spills Oil, Ignites Keystone Debate
A mile-long Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed in Minnesota on Wednesday, spilling 15,000 gallons. Reuters reports that 11 of the 94 train cars came off the tracks about 150 miles northwest of Minneapolis. Officials did not sayShow More Summary
How Fracking Causes Earthquakes, the Animated GIF
Contributing writer Michael Behar has an intriguing feature today that details the science behind the link between injection wells and earthquakes. For a visual rundown of the fascinating process, check out the GIF below. Drillers inject...Show More Summary
VIDEO: How Much Is a Beachfront Home in the Sandy-Ravaged Rockaways Worth?
257 Beach 140th Street, a modest four-bedroom house blocks from the beach in Rockaways, Queens, is fairly unremarkable, but it put up a hell of a fight during Hurricane Sandy. While other houses just down the street were being ripped...Show More Summary
Biggest Oklahoma Earthquake in Memory Linked to Oil Industry
In November 2011, a destructive 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the grasslands outside the small town of Prague, Oklahoma. The shaking leveled 14 homes, shut down schools for repairs, and was felt across 17 states. It also troubled seismologists,...Show More Summary
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Winter Max and It's Dismally Low
The Arctic Ocean reached the most frozen it's going to get this year on 13 March. Now the melt season begins, predicts the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The seasonal stats were gloomy. The max sea ice area of 2013 was was 5.84 million square miles (15.13 million square kilometers). Show More Summary
First Dead Pigs. Now Dead Ducks. China, What's Next?
At least 1000 dead ducks were found floating in a river in Sichuan, China, Chinese media reported Monday. Like the 16,000 pigs that were recently found in a different river in Sichuan, how the ducks died and why they were in the river is a mystery. Show More Summary
VIDEO: Can We 3D Print Our Way Out Of Climate Change?
Tech optimists' crush of the decade is surely 3D printing. It has been heralded as disruptive, democratizing and revolutionary for its non-discriminatory ability to make almost anything: dresses, guns, even houses. The process—also known...Show More Summary
Kraft Mac & Cheese Is Nutritionally Equivalent to Cheez-Its
We taste-tested Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Annie's Homegrown Macaroni & Cheese, Cheez-Its, and a simple, homemade pasta-and-cheese dish. Watch the video to see how they stacked up. Perhaps you've heard about the recent outcry over the use of yellow dyes 5 and 6 in Kraft's popular Macaroni & Cheese. Show More Summary
World's Grooviest Endangered Frog Bred in Captivity for First Time
Great news today that the endangered limosa harlequin frog (Atelopus limosus) has been bred in captivity for the first time. This unbelievably groovy-looking character is native to the tropical lowland forests of eastern Panama. SixShow More Summary
Billionaire Clean Energy Advocate Pledges to Spend Big in Mass.
A group of young activists is pairing up with a billionaire philanthropist to try to make the Keystone XL pipeline, and climate change, a central issue in the Democratic primary in Massachusetts. Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund manager...Show More Summary
Conservatives Outraged About Mountaintop Removal in Tennessee... By Chinese Company
What's it take to get conservatives in Tennessee fired up about blowing up mountains? China, apparently. On Tuesday, the Tennessee Conservative Union, which bills itself as the state's "largest and oldest conservative group," started running anti-mountaintop removal coal mining ads on television throughout the state. Show More Summary
WTF? Now Manatees Are Dying Off Both Florida Coasts
A record number of manatees —more than 180, and counting— have died so far this year from a red tide off the southwest Florida coast. These tides are caused by blooms of the alga, Karenia brevis, which produce a suite of neurotoxins (brevetoxins) deadly to fish, sea turtles, birds, and marine mammals. Show More Summary
Climate Change Could Mean Seven Times As Many Katrinas
Batten down the hatches, East Coasters: A new study argues that for every one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees F) of global warming, the US Atlantic seaboard could see up to seven times as many Katrina-sized hurricanes. That's the conclusion...Show More Summary
Obama's New New Climate Plan
On Friday, President Obama announced plans for a $2 billion research initiative for clean energy technology. Here's how the White House described it : Over 10 years, the Energy Security Trust will provide $2 billion for critical, cutting-edge research focused on developing cost-effective transportation alternatives. Show More Summary
Will North Carolina Nix Its Renewable Energy Mandate?
In North Carolina, legislators are working to undo the progress their state has made on renewable energy. Back in 2007, it was the first southern state to pass a renewable energy mandate. The law requires investor-owned utilities to draw 12.5 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2021. Show More Summary