by Mitzi | Feb 23, 2016 | Environmental Articles
Cleaning Up After Oil Spills Do Water and Oil Mix? Assume for a moment that you’re a betting kind of person. Would you accept a bet that oil and water don’t mix? You wouldn’t accept the bet if you visited the National Oil Spill Response Test Facility in Leonardo, New...
by Mitzi | Feb 23, 2016 | Environmental Articles
Fungi: The Forest’s Digestive System Fungi are a Forest’s Digestive System “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” The man asking this question is Lance Biechele, a man who’s been studying mushrooms for 35 years. He’s looking at a dead maple tree, and to the untrained eye, this...
by Mitzi | Feb 23, 2016 | Environmental Articles
Fisheries Need a Timeout – Unfortunately The fishing industry is a paradox. Worldwide, the industry faces a crisis. Dozens of fisheries are no longer commercially viable because we’re harvesting fish faster than they’re being replaced. According to fisheries expert...
by Mitzi | Feb 23, 2016 | Environmental Articles
What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? Pop quiz time! When did the dinosaurs go extinct? A. 65 million years ago B. 5 million years ago C. They didn’t go extinct and if you walk outside today, you may see one. Up until a few years ago, most people would say the first...
by Mitzi | Feb 23, 2016 | Environmental Articles
The World’s Reference Library for Minerals What is the most widely viewed museum object in the world? The answer is, the Smithsonian’s Hope Diamond. If you’re one of the roughly 30 million people who will be visiting the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C....
by Mitzi | Feb 23, 2016 | Environmental Articles
Saving Walden Woods What do the following people have in common? Author James Michner, former President Jimmy Carter, actress Whoopi Goldberg, and food company executive John Tyson? They, along with dozens of other celebrities, have joined with singer Don Henley from...
