Science Matters archives
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Biomimicry: Nature's brilliance offers hope for sustainable future
August 26, 2010Sometimes a new science emerges that not only offers hope for our continued survival as a species but that also makes obvious how little we have really learned in our... More »
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Anti-environmentalists are stuck in the past
August 19, 2010Environmentalists won't be happy until we're living in caves and scrounging for roots and berries. At least, that's what I hear over and over again. The people who say this... More »
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More drilling, more disasters, unless we all do our part
August 12, 2010The Gulf of Mexico disaster is just the latest in a long history of "accidents". As Canada considers drilling for oil in the Arctic now that ice seems to be... More »
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Declining phytoplankton another sign of climate catastrophe
August 5, 2010As we wrote recently, nothing would please us more than if climate change deniers were right. It isn't fun to delve daily into the ever-mounting evidence of the catastrophic consequences... More »
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Climate change and water are inextricably linked
July 29, 2010Climate change is already having a tremendous impact on water supplies, shrinking glaciers and causing more frequent droughts and flooding. More »
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Outdoor fun is good for kids and the planet
July 22, 2010Our children have exchanged the experience of outdoors and nature with the enclosed world of electronics, resulting in "nature deficit disorder". For those of us who are concerned about the state of the biosphere, this is disturbing because a person for whom nature is a stranger will not notice, let alone care about, environmental degradation. More »
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Science delivers repeated blows to deluded deniers
July 16, 2010It must be difficult, if not downright embarrassing, to be a climate change denier these days. After all, the scientists they've attacked have been exonerated, London's Sunday Times newspaper ran... More »
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Protecting the planet is a sacred and scientific duty
July 7, 2010If we were to judge our priorities by the amount of space devoted to stories in the news, we'd have to figure that the World Cup, controversy at a hot-dog-eating... More »
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What the beluga can teach us about ourselves
June 30, 2010Many people were rightly outraged at recent reports that coins thrown into a whale pool may have contributed to the death of a baby beluga at the Vancouver Aquarium. Regardless... More »
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Oily disasters: When will we ever learn?
June 25, 2010The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster was the worst accidental spill in history. No, not the one getting the headlines today, but the one in 1979 — although the current... More »
