Nowadays most of us are already conscious of the different “man-made” threats which affect our environment. Poisonous substances, devastating machineries, a wide range of inconsiderate technologies and contaminating waste of a growing comfort- and consume-orientated society. Air pollution and its undesirable offspring, the “greenhouse effect” and the “ozone hole”, which currently affect divers urban centres ...
On the morning of April 27th, 2001, students, teachers, parents and community members came together to celebrate the outstanding achievement of students throughout Marin and Sonoma counties who have been actively working on the STRAW project.
In corals dredged from the bottom of the North Atlantic, scientists have found evidence of a drastic shift in deep currents 15,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age began to wane. The finding, reported in today’s Science, marks the first time oceanographers have been able to clock currents flowing through the ancient ocean and ...