Environment

In essence, recycling is a form of offsetting. I am paying someone else to deal with waste products of my lifestyle. Apart from my own conscience and the small chore of actually collecting together the paper, bottles, etc., and putting them on the street, there is little incentive or pressure on me not to accumulate the waste.

Climate determines how fast or slowly rocks will erode.

Climate monitoring is vital to further advance our understanding of the complexity of the climate system and its predictability.

Plastics production also involves the use of potentially harmful chemicals, which are added as stabilisers or colorants.

Water does self-ionize where two water molecules become one hydroxide anion and one hydronium cation, but not enough to carry enough electric current to do any work or harm for most operations

Human offspring take more than twice the time to reach adulthood than do our closest living relatives, chimps and gorillas.

Plants grow five-feet tall and have glossy green leaves.

Trees such as California's majestic coastal redwoods or the South's moss-draped live oaks sporting life spans of 3,300 and 300 years, respectively, easily outlive their human admirers.

There are a few gadgets out there that try to reduce your energy consumption by switching off all your gizmos properly. Saving energy should be one of the most thought about every day things.

Water fuel is old technology, now rediscovered, with a real potential to help you live through the coming oil crisis. Its simple clean-burn technology can double your mileage and help protect the enviroment.