Scientists are reporting that biochar, which is a material that the Amazonian Indians used to enhance soil fertility centuries ago, has the potential in the modern world to help slow global climate change. Mass production of biochar could capture carbon that otherwise would wind up in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Their report appears in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology, a bi-weekly journal.
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Amazonian Biochar
In James Cameron’s newest film Avatar an alien tribe on a distant planet fights to save their forest home from human invaders bent on mining the planet. The natives win because the planet literally fights off the invaders and not just the native defenders. For decades real indigenous tribes around the world have faced off with corporations determined to exploit their land. These corporations, much like the company in the film, usually have support from the government and access to armed security forces. Yet unlike the film, in which the natives triumph over the invaders, the real life stories of indigenous tribes rarely end with victory.
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Avatar and the Fight To Live
New pictures show that polar bears are beginning to cannibalize each other as global warming destroys their hunting grounds.
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Starving Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism
It may not sound like “tree-hugging,” but cutting down a real tree for Christmas is actually greener than going with the artificial kind.
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Real Christmas Trees are ‘Greener’ than Fake