Category: Environment
Arizona to Experience Worst Coastal Flooding in Decades
TEMPE — Meteorologists agree that the storm surge, combined with the seasonal monsoon already covering Arizona, could mean the worst flooding coastal Arizona has seen in more than a generation. “Well we’ve already been seeing rainfall of over one inch…
PhD Thesis Lists “Yahoo Answers” as Source
MIT has become embroiled in a massive academic scandal after the discovery that one of its PhD students’ thesis utilized Yahoo Answers as a source. Although details are still murky, sources inside the university claim PhD candidate Phillip Kwon inserted…
Kyoto Protocol – What Has It Achieved? (INFOGRAPHIC)
With the Kyoto Protocol’s expiration in 2012, InfoProductReview.org have taken CO2 emissions data from the UN and PBL to assess its impact so far. Sadly, the data shows that while there have been more successes that failures amongst nations with…
Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint Visible from Space
Spectacular new images of Earth were released by NASA yesterday detailing various aspects of our magnificent blue and green marble. One photo in particular stood out above the rest: a crystal clear shot of billions of carbon molecules in the…
Rabbit Too Cute for its Own Good Starting to Annoy Other Forest Animals
Next to a cold gaggling brook, in a small but verdant patch of green, settled serenely in the heart of the North American deciduous forest–the place where that “fresh car smell” is born–lives a baby cottontail rabbit named Booby. And,…
Top Ten Things that Will Happen on Groundhog Day
It’s a merry, storied tradition in Punxsatawney, PA, one that goes back 123 years (including leap years). Lore has it that if Punxsatawney Phil sees his shadow, he predicts six more weeks of winter. Phil has rarely been wrong, or…
Should the Federal Government Help New York & New Jersey Rebuild?
The northeast was recently devastated by super-storm Sandy and the local government has found that, unlike in other natural disasters, federal action and relief has been slow coming. To some it appears a matter of the politics of fiscal responsibility,…
Unseasonably Warm Weather A Reminder Man Didn’t Recycle Bottles Last Month
INDIANAPOLIS – A recent spate of unseasonably warm weather, which has seen December temperatures peak in the mid sixties, has acted as a timely reminder that local man Dennis Kowalski never got around to recycling those damn bottles last month….
Scientists Dismayed As BP Throws More Oil-Absorbent Cash at Gulf
Since the 2010 explosion on the Deep Water Horizon offshore oil rig, which killed 11 people and spilled 205 million gallons of crude oil, British Petroleum has been pumping billions of oil-absorbing dollar bills into the Gulf of Mexico and…
Snow Storm ‘Set to Bury Hundreds of Other News Stories’
INDIANAPOLIS – Heavy snow fall is expected to batter much of the Midwest Thursday, spawning fears that it may wipe out hundreds of “otherwise highly relevant news stories.” Production teams are on standby in news rooms across the state of…